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Hi, I'm going to Comic-Con in 2018 but never used a badge buying group. I want to learn about it for future reference and don't have friends or family who do Comic-Con.What should I know about a badge buying group? What precautions should I take if others in the group are strangers? How far in advance should I look for a group to join? How do I find a group? Thank you for any help.
I'll give you some info from my experience:* I had never used a badge-buying group until this year.* I joined a line-up group here for 2017 Comic-Con that then led to me joining the badge-buying group.* I had an 'informal' buying group between my teenaged song, wife, good friend, and bro-in-law that worked well for me previous years (2018 will be SD Comic-Con #19 for me) but I gave the buying group a try for this coming year after getting to know people in July at Comic-Con.* the groups here have pretty strict rules as far as trust: in my group if someone else bought your badge you had until Saturday evening to paypal the money to them or else the buyer could cancel your badge and you'd be banned from the group for the future. I don't know how well that's gone from last week overall, but the person I bought a badge for in the group paid me back almost immediately as soon as I gave him my paypal email.* the badge groups seem to form not super-long after Comic-Con. Maybe look to join a line-up group for 2018 Comic-Con (if you want to do Hall H, Ballroom 20, or exclusives) and then join the group's buying group afterwards. That way you'll have gotten to know many people in the group and you can decide if you trust them enough. I generally have had amazing luck with strangers at Comic-Con over the years, and last year's line-up group 100% convinced me to trust the group.* the success of our group was incredible: 100% of the group got at least two days of badges (or one day if someone only wanted to go on Sunday, for example).* it's a fairly simple process though with a (very) slight learning curve of keeping up with group chat & the master spread-sheet * the success rates seem great for groups in general
[member=7802]Comico[/member] I am sorry to tell you that all badges for SDCC 2018 have been sold. The final badge sae was last weekend. I know that they hold some brain teaser type contests for free badges in the spring, so you could always look at those, but you should probably assume that SDCC 2018 is not in the cards for you.If you are looking to join a buying group for SDCC 2019, then you should check back on this site in the fall of next year. We will start discussing.opening buying groups for open registration (the badge sale for first-time attendees) at about that time.
Thank you for the info. What's a line group?
How early do badge buying groups on this site accept membership applications and how do I find one for 2019 Comic-Con?
Thanks, I'm going to 2018 Comic-Con but am planning for 2019. When should I check back for the returning registration badge buying groups?
Thank you for the info. What's a line group? How early do badge buying groups on this site accept membership applications and how do I find one for 2019 Comic-Con?
[member=380]perc2100[/member] never give the time you got in line, it just encourages everyone to line up earlier than that. If I say I lined up on Weds then people start lining up on Tuesday. Well, I'm off for my Hall H line shift, we already started the the line ;D