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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
As fuzebox said, take a piece of paper. Fold it in half. Write out what the badge, and non-badge, benefits are. In 2009/2010 there is little value in the badge. Which is why few buy them, and many more are not even staying at the conference hotel.
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Everything you write down as a benefit you can get from NOT buying a badge is a benefit that was delivered by the people running the show. It's something that you SHOULD be paying for, so it doesn't work to take that off the list of benefits of buying a badge.
Shows COULD just be badge police... they could be really aggressive about making sure everyone has a badge, and just have the hotel kick everyone out who doesn't have one. Then make sure that every sponsored party is in the hotel. Then, you'd list those parties and networking and everything else on the "badge benefits" list. But show organizers don't like to make things a pain for the people who do contribute, and they like to keep things loose. But people who freeload make it hard for organizers to do that.