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I was too paranoid and already bought a second set that I *do* have a confirmation for, so I will be set. If the first charge ever comes out of limbo and goes through, I'll find a friend to take that set of tickets.
[X] 4 1-Day Passes [X] Hotel Booked [ ] Buttons Ordered [ ] Challenge Coin Ordered
[ ] Pre-PAX Dinner Tickets [ ] Girls Meetup Tickets [ ] Waiting Patiently...
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And thanks to all the Enforcers, Forumers and Staff that make PAX such an amazing experience for the tens of thousands of attendees! This will be my 5th year at Prime and it's pretty much the best weekend of the year, and I know a lot of work has to go into something this amazing/huge!
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"We know that the moment we slip, it will be taken away... and so it is of the utmost importance to be worthy of it constantly."
PAX will always be held on the best weekend for PAX. Sometimes that will be a bad weekend for you; I'm sorry.
That's what I'm sayin'!
@jaberwockynmt are you saying I should email merch to see if it's been thought of before/might be there this year, or to just suggest it to them either way?
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I would say... Yes
Yes? Or....OH YEAH!?
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"We know that the moment we slip, it will be taken away... and so it is of the utmost importance to be worthy of it constantly."
PAX will always be held on the best weekend for PAX. Sometimes that will be a bad weekend for you; I'm sorry.
I just bought my 3-day tickets for this year's PAX. Here is a link to the picture of the Confirmation Email I got.
However, I clicked "FedEx" shipping even though I live in the U.S.A.; I thought we were supposed to select that. Now the "country" is missing from my Confirmation Email. Should I be concerned? The "Fee"s and "Type of Payment" is also missing.
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email pax_questions@paxsite.com for an exact resolution. It said on the website that the FedEx option was for international (outside of the USA) residents. I'm not sure how that actually affects reg if you paid for it that way.
I also don't have the type of payment in my reg email either. Considering what's on http://paxsite.com right now, I'd sit tight and wait for a new registration email, after you email pax_questions of course.
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Edit: Nevermind; the pending charge from the first vendor has been cancelled. If I understand Registration stipulation #2 right, then the transfer of our original registration to the new vendor will be automatic and the payment to the will be taken out at the same time.
Great while it lasted.
Well, the PAX Prime website said:
"#2. For those of you who have successfully registered, we'll shoot you an email next week to confirm your registration."
So if you've already purchased the tickets you should be good
Alright awesome, one less thing to worry about.
You can order another one when reg goes back up next week.
Anywhere from 300$-600$ depending on where you're coming from and when you buy. Right now from Boston I see quite a few with in the 300$ range.
I use bing/travel for that, as they bought a company that predicts flights raising or lowering in price with a confidence level.
my round trip from Rochester NY last year was ~$450 including taxes, etc
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Last year they sold out within 22 days. It will sell out faster this year, almost assuredly.
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If by some chance they sell out day one before I can get home from work/home for lunch how fast do the 1 day passes sell out? remembering to bring 3 passes may be a pain I really want to go for all 3 days
Not nearly as fast as 3-days
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FWIW, the way the pricing structure is built, I suspect 3-day passes will always sell out with significant lagging time (relatively speaking) between that and 1 day passes selling out. Simply because you save money on the 3 day pass before Day 2 (i.e. one 3day pass<2 1 day passes.) This of course incentivises people who were only planning on attending 2 days to spring for 3 day passes. There will always be some people who either can't make Friday, or have to leave Sunday (and statistically some of these people will be buying after passes after the 3 day sell out) meaning that the pool changes at this point.
In short the lower price of the 3 day pass creates an artifically inflated demand relative to what you'd expect if the pricing were more "balanced" (by this I mean the discount took place after day 2.) Granted demand could reach levels where the passes all sold out with statistically insignificant amounts of time between them (i.e. a complete day one sell out) but the trends don't show this happening for some time. (I may have, at one point, built a model for this, it was rough, very rough. Also I couldn't account for the fact that as the average age of the PAX crowd gets older, they will have more discresionary income, allowing for more draw than in previous years. Yes, I tried to account for this. Such a change is expect...you know what I'm going to stop now.)
Yeah, I think just knowing that it happens is good enough
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Question 2. What is the Annex? where located?
This was remarkably back of the napkin based on a lot of memory, and it actually came up as part of a discussion of the potential growth curve of PAX (obviously limited by space and the fire code but it was theoretical so we discounted that) and the effect of the "coming of age" of the Gamer Generation on ticket sales. (Yes, I know there are gamers of all ages, but you can pull a stereotypical demographic, especially as related to Penny Arcade, which is decidedly a product of the interwebs, and thus has a draw more centered around the 20-30 crowd.) It also came up because for the first time we have discretionary income for which to attend PAX.
It really went downhill from there (or should I say "nerd shaped") because we discussed buying incentives for passes and potential (theoretical) ways to "slow" pass consumption to allow for a longer buying time (hence the discussion of the pricing model.)
Believe it or not, I'm a biologist turned philosopher, not an economist (that's just my hobby). Also unbelievable, this "back of the napkin" math nerd fest, happened between me an my wife (physicist). Our (not-yet-existing-or-planned) childeren are screwed.
Would they EVER? yeah, maybe, eventually, considering the infinite future.
The Annex is the building across the street from the WSCC. On the WSCC website, it is referred to as "The Conference Center". It's part of the "WSCC complex" (of two buildings)
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It's correct that what you describe is possible. From a seller's end, you can know if you have a legit badge, and be a total saint about selling it at face or giving it away, or whatever. But considering the MASSIVE counterfeiting problem at Prime last year, PAX can no longer officially condone any method of re-selling badges because the buyer has little to no protection short of getting someone to validate it in person at the con before paying for it.
Edit: To be clear, you CAN have the badge checked on-site, so that's very possible. That's the only way though.
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OOOOH ok .thankyou. i was getting confused when i looked the annex up and got the annex theatre which isnt close the the WSCC at all
yes
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