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The thing is, Saturday is always the busiest day, then Friday, then Sunday. Lots of people only can or want to attend for just one day. No reason to exclude a large segment of the audience by only offering three day passes. The only real answer to the problem would to offer more passes, and as anyone who has attended PAX before can attest, the last thing that is needed is more people. Last year it was filled to capacity as it is, lines for popular titles were cut off several hours before the exhibition hall closed for the day. It's unfortunate that space and safety concerns limit the number of people that can attend, but them's the breaks. PAX is tied to the BCEC for several more years, and although it may not be large enough to meet demands, it's the best we've got for now.
So in truth if the costs of the venue goes up they must Raise the cost of tickets or decrease the amount of 3 day passes and increase the amount of singles.
(this doesn't take into account the cost of making the passes and the cut that the purchase site takes and things like that)
The people who run PAX rarely check these forums. Also this gets suggested every year
While I don't think they have said officially what the formula is for calculating 3-day vs 1-days, its likely that its not all up to PA. Probably the venue and\or fire marshal rules come into play. After the 3days are sold out, the single day passes do convince quite a few people to only come 2 days instead of one (since 2 day passes = 3-day $ wise), thus leaving a free passday for someone else to experience PAX. Some would consider that a good thing.
I have ordered my badges but have no email saying so (I thought for certain it showed up when I got them on the 9th, but now I can't find it). I see a NEGATIVE 280 (I bought 4, 70x4=280) DEBIT to my bank account that is in PENDING status, that reads "Balance Adjustment" with the date 10/11/2012 on it. Is anyone else having this sort of problem/behavior? What should I do? If I need to buy single passes I will, but if I've already bought them then I don't want to waste 400$ buying 3 days of passes for 4 people.
Again I apologize if this is not the correct place, I just don't see anywhere else to ask. Feel free to make fun of/ostracize me if you feel it is necessary, but also please point me in the right direction if you can.
Thanks everyone.
They will tell you what happened with it.
No one on the forums will be able to help you beyond that
Relevant info: #PAX East: 3 Coin Lunch organizer. 2012 Trading card available. Pokecrawl Assistant 2012. Pokecrawl attendee 2011. Cult of the Leaf attendee 2012.
The name the email comes from is Interactive Ticketing, it says nothing about PAX on the name or subject. Double check your emails you may just have missed it.
When you ordered, a confirmation page with registration codes should have popped up. Do you remember seeing/printing/screen capturing that? I believe you can access your order with those codes?
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so it's sunday night and none of the single-day passes are even low yet. any updated predictions? thoughts on why 3-days flew but single-days are still hanging around?
you might email registration@paxsite.com to be sure, but i don't think that's how it works. it was discussed at some point earlier in this thread, someone bought a bunch of single day passes and was concerned, but as i recall it was fine because it did not exceed 5 per day. can anyone confirm or deny this?
edit: i'm curious, so i went ahead and emailed them myself. will update when i get a response.
I'm pretty sure that some other folks in here were able to order two sets of single days just fine. Like tvethiopia says, send the email, but I think the spirit of the restriction is to limit "sets". I agree that it's poorly worded in that case.
I'm guessing that Prime's crazy sellout got the East people on notice that *really* wanted to go, and that's what sold out the 3-days so fast. Now it's just "regular" demand for the single days, which as we've seen in the past take quite a while to sell out in comparison to the 3-days.
registration@paxsite.com replied:
so i would interpret this to mean it that in the situation i described in my question, the transaction would be flagged, but since it is reviewed by an actual person it would probably not be cancelled if everything looks legit. however, since that makes a lot of work for the reg manager who is diligently trying to weed out scalpers, that situation should be avoided if at all possible. or at least that's my take.
I'm still going to be checking like crazy come April / May for PAX Prime 2013 badges, though.
3-day passes sell out after 1 day. 2 weeks later there are still plenty of passes for all 3 days. Doesn't this strike everyone as a clear case of "oops, we messed up the ratio of 3-days : singles"? And yes, I know people can choose to buy each day individually, I know I "should be grateful they even have a discounted 3-day system." However, if you want to offer 3-day passes, then offer enough for any who want them. When you're talking about local conventions (aka, those that don't have a big national or international draw), it makes sense that local may only want to attend for one day. However, for those who fly/train/drive cross country, you know it's for a 3-day attendance.
There is no email notification. They tweeted when they went on sale, like they've done to notify people the last few years.
East occurs during that hibernation the industry takes after the holidays are over.
Other factors include money (East prep is during holidays when funds are stretched), timing (East is right in the middle of the spring semester), venue (East might have greatest capacity for more people) and so on.
I mean, last year was during Easter weekend, and every pass sold out except Sunday's.
yeah, same here. i am on the @Official_PAX list but missed it and forgot to set notifications..my mistake and it cost me. guess an email list would have been more reliable at least for a social media challenged person like myself. live and learn. btw - already saw the first post on that <person name>list site so I am sure they are out there if you want to pay up....ugh ugh
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for some reason i feel like there are a lot of people who don't understand this. i've seen quite a few people post on twitter that they missed their chance to go to paxeast because 3-days sold out so fast. it's only a $35 difference to get 3 single-days, which i suppose some people might not like, but it's doesn't seem like enough of a difference to put so many people off. i just don't get it.
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As you say, off topic, so we can wait and see how it works out for Prime.
There's no way to tell for sure other than a possible tweet from http://twitter.com/official_pax. The rule of pax is if you're going to go, buy your passes asap.
email pax_questions@paxsite.com
The default answer is "no refunds" but I've heard that they can make exceptions for extreme circumstances.