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#1 is a good idea1. Sell the tickets online, show up with a ticket and get in no waiting line.
2. Women get in free
3. Over 65 get in 1/2 price
yep, but then what does eveyone do....they go to the free raffle table and fill out a card to enter with name, address, tel # and email addy. so much for privacy.-Paying admission in cash at the door is still a great idea for privacy reasons.
1. Provide an FFL to do transfers for walk in sales, probably a popular choice for INTERSTATE sales.
2. Sell tables to ONLY gun related vendors, No t-shirts, beef jerky, beanie babies, FLEA MARKET CRAP!
3. Provide a safe location for customers to put down items and continue shopping, like lockers at a train station
4. Pay insurance for vendors to drive inside building
I have a lot more ideas, but it costs a lot of money to run a gun show, believe me I've tried.
I'd go the opposite route -- I wouldn't rent any venue which forbids the beef jerky vendors, then I would actively recruit the jerky and T-shirt guys and segregate them all on the far corner opposite the entrance, ensuring maximum foot traffic for the serious vendors.2. Sell tables to ONLY gun related vendors, No t-shirts, beef jerky, beanie babies, FLEA MARKET CRAP!
1. Sell the tickets online, show up with a ticket and get in no waiting line.
2. Women get in free
3. Over 65 get in 1/2 price
This would almost certainly be a contractually prohibited by the venue. It's akin to bringing your own food to a restaurant.Food trucks in the parking lot
The hard part is building up a big enough name to get a metric s-load of vendors to show up. If you can do that, you will do well.I have a lot more ideas, but it costs a lot of money to run a gun show, believe me I've tried.
I suspect you'd have found "Rambo knives" at every single show since '82.Once inside the venue, I'd have a portal through which a person could go back in time to 1986 when the shows didn't suck. No goddamn jerky and hot sauce vendors...
OK, 24 posts about shows by people who (other than Boudrie) were probably not there. Marlborough had a pretty good turn-out yesterday and there were actually some things for sale at market prices. There was a better representation of women than in past years and I only smelled one person who had obvious issues and that was as I was leaving. We had ample interest in our introduction to USPSA class this year and expect it to be fully booked. I see lots of shooters that I know and enjoy speaking with.