Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 1042689" data-attributes="member: 2171">Handling the money is one of the biggest nightmares in this scenario.What do you do if some publishers bail out, without paying their share?What do you do if some of the publishers say they really really want in, and you need them to achieve the size to make it work, but they don't have the cash on hand yet, but promise they'll have it before the show (or maybe by the end of the show, from sales)?  Do you kill the effort you've put in; or who puts up the money?  And how do they get compensated for assuming that risk?Having dabbled in the "collaborate with other publishers on something that sounds like a neat idea at the time" field, I can tell you that money issues are an ENORMOUS concern.  Even when dealing with companies that you might think of as large, established, and thriving.Heck, if someone can get you to assume the risk of the booth cost, and then put off to the last minute paying...or deciding not to after all...then they're getting a big interest-free loan at your expense, or a free option on a Gen Con booth.Now, if you go and structure things to build in costs for investment risk, you lose any economy of scale cost benefits.If a bunch of d20 publishers would like to have a "d20 aisle," the thing to do, I think, is just talk to Gen Con management about it, and see if something can be arranged (and perhaps even highlighted to Gen Con's benefit, both for attendees and as a means to recruit exhibitors and thus get more business and profit).  Don't expect to get special prices though -- after all, their prices do build in the element of risk (having to deal with no-shows, bounced checks, the administrative cost of dealing with all the individual exhibitors, whatever other awful things can go wrong), and allow you to get just one of those 10x10 booths for yourself.</blockquote>

Verification