"Wally's Basement, Fall-In 2025" Topic

What's everyone bringing and/or looking for?

Not selling anything now but looking for 28mm Police/SWAT figures, vehicles, etc.

Bringing box after box of painted 28mm at my usual $1 USD a figure for foot, $2 USD for horse. Maybe 400 figures or so? largely medieval/fantasy, but some of everything from Ancients to SF.

Last time at Lancaster, I think. Inflation is eating away at the price, it's a long trip, and HMGS seems determined to make registration as painful as possible.

Remember when computers were going to make things faster and simpler?

Looking for…Not sure. Microscale and nanoscale are always nice. Gutted carrying cases? Maybe geomorphic boards? But my best finds at conventions are usually stuff I wasn't looking for.

HMGS seems determined to make registration as painful as possible.

It's official. HMGS is now the DMV.
What's wrong with a guy passing out entry badges, with a cigar box in front of him for cash?

SYWA Convention is still phone for room reservation if you want one, and register for the con and reserve tables by hitting "reply" to an e-mail. Pay at the door.

Fall In took I think four sessions with a computer, plus some e-mails back and forth with convention staff. I finally palmed the last hurdle off on my son, but we don't all have family who build their own desktop computers. N.B. This is NOT TTE. I worked TTE for Autumn Wars and it's pretty straightforward. This was HMGS saving me--I think it totalled out at $17.50 USD--by inserting themselves in the process at the cost of my blood pressure.

The first rule of selling stuff is "make it easy for people to give you money." They failed.

I have been going to Cold Wars or Fall In for years. I don't game, I just go to drop a pocket full of money at the exhibit hall and then leave. My wife and my 10 year old join me for company and to see Lancaster. No problem paying $40 USD for a badge for myself, but now I have to pay $40 USD each for the wife and kid just to watch me spend $$$. This year will be a pass.

And now, I have heard that the Flea Market is back up in the poorly lit theater.
It seems like the whole intent of HMGS for the flea market is "pour décourager les autres". To discourage them. What with the times scheduled, the location and charging attendees $40 USD just for the privilege of shopping, it looks like their intent is to get rid of it. Conspiracy theory much?
Let's hear it from The Committee to prove me wrong.

Great! Now a bunch of old farts, myself included, will have to scramble for the elevator up-down with all our stuff all the while hoping we are lucky enough to procure a gondola to tote everything up. I don't have room for a a handcart when I attend cons. And we have an hour less time to sell our wares to boot!

I may have to agree with the OFM on this one!

I also agree with OFM.

Just a painter:

That's not correct. You can get a non-player badge for your wife & child. I think they are $2 USD each.

I did that for my wife.

Dale