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Originally Posted by fuzebox
By the same token, guilt shouldn't be your only way of selling those $300 badges. If they were worth $300, everyone would buy one. Show threads always complain about value. I mean really, take a sheet of paper and write down what someone with a badge receives compared to someone without a badge... it's pretty funny.
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Let's be honest, that's just an excuse for freeloaders to feel better about what they're doing. Porn is worth something too... it costs to produce it, the girls have to get paid at the very least, there's equipment to buy, there's demand for the product, etc., yet people still take what they can get for free more often than pay for it. It's why so many people here are complaining about the $300 badge now for a three day event -- that wouldn't have happened in 2003, for example, when porn sales were higher. Either enough people see the big picture, or they can instead choose to think of themselves as clever freeloaders and watch as all the show organizers move on to other things.
If the event isn't worth the badge price then just don't show up. Simple. If you're showing up, then you see value. If you see value, then don't be cheap... buy a badge. Personally I note when people don't have a badge but show up anyway... it doesn't impress me, it makes me think that person is broke. Most shows offer discounted badges for people who buy early too... I don't recall, but I bet AVN did with Internext.