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I've been coming to Comic Con since 2015. I've heard they stopped those sales since 2013/2014. They didn't get enough cancellations to justify having another sale.
Even if only 5-10% of people canceled, that's a lot of badges. I thought CCI said that one of the reasons they held Turkeycon was because they needed money. 5,000 - 10,000 badges is a lot of money to forego. Even a 1,000 badges is a lot of money. Especially since the vast majority of costs will stay the same whether 10,000 more people attend or not. It's pure profit. Leaving that money on the table doesn't seem like a good idea. Selling badges isn't that much of a hardship. Selling stuff on ebay is easy. Much smaller parties, even someone working solo out of their kitchen, sell stuff all the time. Making a listing and then having people pickup badges onsite is not a lot of effort. Or they could do what they did at Turkeycon, have onsite badge sales. I think it would be better to sell badges in advance. There's a much bigger audience for that than relying on foot traffic.
Could things change? Absolutely. CCI can do whatever they want.But,...1. Over the past 2 years, they have repeatedly said they are not going to have another sale.2. I attended the talk back at CCSE, and they were pretty emphatic that the July show was sold out.
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on the likelihood that they will have an additional badge sale for SDCC. We have badges but some in our group did not get all days. I keep hoping.
It was 2012. That was my first year going, I only got Thurs/Sun in the general sake, added all of the other days in the refund sale (which was on a weekday, not a weekend like their usual sales). And that was the last time they did the refund sale.
so i'm curious...How was the refund sale organized. Did they have the blue circle. Were there restrictions around who could participate. How long did it last?
Some people might not attend if studios and other content providers bypass "you gotta be there in Hall H" to promote their own events. If virus concerns are low as we get closer, I wouldn't be surprised if we see some late auctions.
Right before Wondercon, David Glanzer gave an interview and discussed this. He said it is something they were going to look into."Of course 2020 came with the worldwide pandemic so we had to cancel the show so those tickets rolled over to 2021 and then we had to cancel 2021. Those tickets rolled over to 2022. So right now the show is technically sold out. As we wrap, WonderCon will look more fully into Comic-Con and decide if there's something that we can do."You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login