#wizarding dayz

[preposterousmissbradley]

Some designs I made for Wizarding Dayz back in July.  Some fun Hogwarts houses with quotes I thought fit them really well. Even though I myself am Hufflepuff, I think my favorite was Ravenclaw’s.  

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[artbyjenisse]

Wizarding Dayz 2018 Review

This was the first show of the year. It was also my worst show for sales.

Let me start off with the good things about this show.

The Table. The table space I had was piped and dragged and just huge. Honestly I essentially had like a mini booth space with a huge table. When I saw it I felt like I had to run home and get my other table and more stuff to sell. I haven’t had a space that big before and I was standing there for like ten minutes trying to figure out how to use it.

Staff. The staff was great! Everyone was super friendly and went around to make sure the vendors were okay and they communicated to us well.

The Venue. Wizarding Dayz is held at the South Town I mean the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, UT. I hadn’t exhibited in this space before and we only had one of the halls but the space was a good size and fit everything the con had to offer very nicely.

Now the bad…

Really the only bad thing about this show was the lack of sales. And I was NOT the only person having this problem. There were a lot of people at the show, that being said, no one was buying anything.

The bulk of the attendees were moms and dads with all their kids; all they wanted to do was the cheap and free stuff. What was free? Well there was a quest you could do and win free stuff from. Characters walked about. There was this thing were you could chase down fictional villains and put them in jail. Live entertainment. Things like that.

Now I’m all for having free and fun things at conventions, I have zero problems with these things. I feel like there was just too much free. And honestly that quest was annoying as all hell. I’m not sure how exactly the quest worked but I was asked at least three times an hour if I was a part of the quest. No I was not.

I will not be returning to Wizarding Dayz next year. This has nothing to do with the staff of the show and everything to do with the sheer lack of sales.

I’ll shoot straight here. My table space was $250. I maybe spent about $150-$200 on printing, buying bags, food, and gas. I only made $60 at this show. $60. That’s it.

Sure, I could go blame the weather on sales (we had a good snow storm that Friday night). But I just can’t do that because that place was pretty full of people on Saturday. Honestly for the amount of people I should have been able to at least make back table. But no. Again, no one was buying. I didn’t really even see many guests with bags or merch from other vendors.

I have never ever been at a show like that. I hope this is the last one because I simply cannot be this far in the hole for another show.

 My next show is in May. I will be at the LVL UP EXPO in Vegas.

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comic #2448: wizarding dayz