Freebie etiquette
Alice Bentley
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This will be my first PAX, so I don't know what the options are for distributing promotional items to attendees.
Is there a Freebie Table where i would just leave things off? Can (or should) I walk down the Registration lines handing them out?
And how many people still play ButtonMen? Would a free starter set be a welcome bonus or a quickly tossed burden?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Is there a Freebie Table where i would just leave things off? Can (or should) I walk down the Registration lines handing them out?
And how many people still play ButtonMen? Would a free starter set be a welcome bonus or a quickly tossed burden?
Inquiring minds want to know...
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Though I dont think there would be a problem, as long as its not like covered in boobies and swear words... that stuff is best to give directly to me...
Id like to hand out stickers so u guys can plaster them all over the building. hahahahha DOOOM
Uhh... No.
That would be bad.
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After I inquired about buying a booth there from Mike I asked if going boothless was OK. Its basically the same question, can I walk around handing out my stuff. The answer is no.
Here is the email you should inquire to: mikef@penny-arcade.com
What I didn't find out, is if there is a flyer table set up someplace to leave brochures, CDs, etc. Most trade shows have one so I would bet PAX will too.
I actually hope to avoid having to hand anything out - I hope to spend all my time attending panels and gaming. It's just that the guys I work for are dropping one of their product lines, and we still have some stock left. And rather than scramble around finding a wholesaler who's interested, or -horrors- just throwing them into the landfill, I thought it would be more fun to make them available free to PAX attendees.
I'll try emailing again, and let this thread know what gets decided.
Alice
Thanks!
And the answer is ... nope, there are no plans for a Freebie Table.
Promotional give-aways can be included as inserts in the show bag for the (in my opinion, quite reasonable) cost of $400.
For my specific purpose - clearing out a no longer supported product line - I'm guessing my bosses aren't going to want to pay extra to unload them. What I do next will depend on my measure of overall support for the game, and whether people would actually be happy about getting them.
So let me repurpose this thread and ask for feedback: Button Men is a dice based duel game ideal for conventions. All sorts of companies have produced characters for it, so having our handful bow out of the lineup shouldn't dim the enthusiasm much. Would getting a pair of Button Men and an instruction sheet be a cool, appreciated thing, or just something discarded?
Last year we were told (enforcers) to be on a lookout for people handing stuff out and to ask them not to.
You are being watched :P
Unless someone wants to give me bawls or anything else with caffeine, ill take your whole load of it :P
Sounds great to me
never heard of the game. but, let me get one thing straight: for the low, low price of only $400 i could have fliers full of boobies placed in every pax bag?! why was i not informed?! i'll get on this at once!
you can slip me some under the table.
Or put this in and try to start some sort of wild rumor.
I think I'd probably have a look at them, but the chances that I'd play with them are small. Unless, of course, my buddies thought they were cool and talked me into it. I'm going with one guy who checks all that shit out in it's most minute detail to see if it's any fun.
The thing is that on most cons I've been to you get handed so much fucking crap that it just because a "Junk Collection" after a while.
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Tower of the Elephant
Umm, its not exactly $400. That's just the cost for the privilege of putting something in the bag. You also have to deliver 10,000 of whatever you're giving out.
However, if you're serious about that, its pretty funny, so I'll do the printing for you at cost.
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hahaha
Isnt it closer to 30,000 this year?
Showing up on Friday means you've got a better chance of getting bag swag. I honestly don't remember if we hold onto X number of bags for pre-reg people, but my assumption is to say that we don't.
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the PAX bags will be handed out one per person, not sure how its working exactly this year because of the new venue.
Dude, Red... you sell out at a pretty low cost... weaksauce, man.
I'll just jack some penguin mints off my roomie for you. He won't notice...
Rika: lol wut?...
What do you mean low cost? You realize how much caffeine I can consume? :P
There really isn't a good venue at PAX for wholesale distribution of freebies unless you already have a booth in the Exhibit Hall. But clever Mike F pointed out that Game Prizes for the tournaments are welcome, so I'll be sending them about a dozen bundles of the game.
Go win those tournaments folks!
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=2229357#post2229357
hahahaha
I would discreetly chip in on that ;-)
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