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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1628749" data-attributes="member: 63">I was at Origins with a friend peddling his new card game.  I was actually just around mostly to help carry stuff, and to help demo the game.  I don't think I actually sold a thing.  While he peddled, I had free time to shop between a dozen different card dealers to find cheap Magic cards.  Cheap being a relative term, since one person's $20 Tundra might go for $10 at another booth if the thing is beaten up enough.  The only actual 'deal' I got was when I bought a pair of Birds of Paradise for $12 (typically $20 to $30 for two) off a guy I met at the con.  I'd won some swag at the WotC booth that I didn't want, and so I gave it to him, and when we ran into each other later and he said he couldn't find a dealer who'd give him a good deal, I bought them off him.  Much cheaper than him selling them for $5 and me buying them for $20.  I think his name was Brian.But, um, yeah.  I saw nothing telling me to go anywhere but the dealer's room.  Perhaps the two highlights of the con were meeting Margaret Weis in Buca di Beppo (an Italian restaurant, where we got to eavesdrop on some juicy gamer gossip) and winning a backpack full of $100+ worth of cards, minis, and game books at the WotC booth.  Most of that ended up being given away, so that I only get Eberron and the actual bag for myself.  And the WotC notebook.  Ooh, impressive.As a business trip, dang, it went badly for us.  As a 'nearly all expenses'-paid trip for me that just gave me the chance to spend $100 on Magic cards, eh, it was okay.  As any sort of industry event?  Well, maybe I just wasn't looking in the right spots, but it didn't seem that important to the people running the con, so why should it have been for me?How many categories do we have in the ENnies now?</blockquote>

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