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Aversion to Free Stuff
epictuna
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Maybe I'm losing my mind here, but has anyone else ever experienced this:
You have some kind of free giveaway. Now, I'm not talking about flyers regarding the Women for Doing Womeny Stuff Club Meeting or Local Band Showing Tonight at The Local Pisshole or a Fancy Triangle Awareness Meeting. I'm talking about quality free stuff. Like free food samples, free coupons for ice-cream or magazines, a free comic book, free stickers, maybe a free movie poster.
Free cool stuff.
When my friend and I got a booth at Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago we were giving away loads of free stuff. We had a package deal where you got our comic book, two posters, and a sticker, and it all came in a jaunty bag for you to tote around the convention.
Now, for the most part people grabbed this stuff up. Free stuff is like smashing the win button with both fists.
On the other hand, we would occasionally get that random dude who would wave his hands and stutter some kind of: "No, I, ah, bahah, I, uh, can't be bothered with *cough, blough* that sort of thing," and would zip by as though we were trying to inject him with AIDS.
Generally reactions were magnanimous, but every once in a while we would get this completely putrid response to free stuff that baffled us.
I'm sure there are others on the PA forums who either run booths at conventions or deal with/around/near free stuff and the giving away of said stuff on a fairly regular basis. Has anyone else come across this type of reaction?
I mean, to me, it's FREE SHIT! Gimme, gimme, gimme! But, I dunno, some people are just against that? What?
You have some kind of free giveaway. Now, I'm not talking about flyers regarding the Women for Doing Womeny Stuff Club Meeting or Local Band Showing Tonight at The Local Pisshole or a Fancy Triangle Awareness Meeting. I'm talking about quality free stuff. Like free food samples, free coupons for ice-cream or magazines, a free comic book, free stickers, maybe a free movie poster.
Free cool stuff.
When my friend and I got a booth at Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago we were giving away loads of free stuff. We had a package deal where you got our comic book, two posters, and a sticker, and it all came in a jaunty bag for you to tote around the convention.
Now, for the most part people grabbed this stuff up. Free stuff is like smashing the win button with both fists.
On the other hand, we would occasionally get that random dude who would wave his hands and stutter some kind of: "No, I, ah, bahah, I, uh, can't be bothered with *cough, blough* that sort of thing," and would zip by as though we were trying to inject him with AIDS.
Generally reactions were magnanimous, but every once in a while we would get this completely putrid response to free stuff that baffled us.
I'm sure there are others on the PA forums who either run booths at conventions or deal with/around/near free stuff and the giving away of said stuff on a fairly regular basis. Has anyone else come across this type of reaction?
I mean, to me, it's FREE SHIT! Gimme, gimme, gimme! But, I dunno, some people are just against that? What?
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Even Blaine has time for free shit. He'd set his mini-gun down for a free sample of haagen-daas.
Who doesn't like free buttsex?
He'd sprinkle some chaw on top and wolf that shit down.
Buttsex is never free. Someone always pays...
It's true. Doesn't matter if it's free if it's something you don't want.
"It's like sayin' 'Hey. You throw this away!'"
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A dude at PAX last year was trying to hand me a pamphlet for something, who knows what, but when he tried, I said, "No, that's okay, you can throw it away."
man this stuff is delicious but it makes my nose run
Read it first, at least. It could have been a voucher for a PS3 and free blowjobs.
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Okay, but give us a courtesy flush at least.
But here's the thing: It's a comic convention. You're in artists' alley. This is WHY you are there! You are there for COOL FREE SHIT. If you don't TAKE the cool free shit then why not save your scratch and stay home?
People walk down artists' alley for three reasons: To see what may be up and coming, to order commissions, and to check out the free shit. I guess my real question is, if you are a duck, and you go to the lake to swim and quack with all the other ducks, why the hell are you not quacking? Why aren't you swimming? Why are you walking along the bank? You went to the lake to quack! You went to swim! Quack! Swim! Swim and quack! That's why you're there!
Free shit.
It certainly isn't haagen dazs.
I'm starting to see why people are avoiding you.
Put your theory into a free pamphlet and I'll take eight.
You clearly didn't read the post. 99% of the people took the free shit. We had several groups of people referred to our booth by satisfied free shit collectors. Furthermore, we were told to CHARGE for our free shit because of its quality.
These were 1 in an innumerable influx of people who didn't want the free shit. This is why I'm baffled. Because of the rarity and yet the complete and total aversion to the notion of free stuff. 1 guy out of 1000 may refuse the free shit but he would do it with such vigor.
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You said the only reason I would be there is for free shit, even though you then listed two other reasons why I might be there.
I don't know what the fuck other jackasses are doing at conventions, but I don't just breeze through going "hand me your free stuff, hand me your free stuff." I take my fucking time and actually look at the what the people are fucking doing and then I decide if I want some of the stuff they have, be it free shit or not.
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