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Originally posted by Dravyk@Jan 11 2005, 01:35 PM
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Hire Check in people that have actually seen a computer before, If I had paid to exhibit I would have been furious looking at the huge line of people still standing at 3:00 in the afternoon. Better Yet - mail the badges to the people that pre register and have an Express ID check for them.
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Well the only issues i had were already mentioned, to long to wait for passes, as exhibitors, you already have our information, why does it take 3 of us to collect our passes individually when myself, Gary or Chris could have collected id from the other two and got all three passes at once? It used to work like that, why doesnt it now?
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Above, two of the best ideas I've heard so far.
If AVN is afraid of tickets being counterfitted, fine; don't blame them. Still take a tip from the airllines we all take to these shows and adapt an e-ticket thing. Something where the preregistered people can present a card (they got in the mail) to a person or machine and get their ticket printed out at the show near instantly. There is NO reason anyone should stand in line two or three hours, but more so anyone who PREregistered. If that's the case, see preregistrations (aka the money you need before the show to help put it on) go to a drop in the bucket.
Ditto, one person to pick up all the tickets for their company.
Treat attendees like this and then wonder why next show or next year's event has a drastic drop in attendance is plain insanity.
Bottom line, these are easily remedied items.
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Trapped people? Now I see that as an opportunity.
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hehe Thought the same thing! Told my partner, if we could only have gotten a few hundred bottles of water and a laptop with a sticky-label printer ... 
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YES... the lines were ridiculously long, and the processing time FAR too long.
While Internext can't control the age of the employees who sit rather unfamiliarly behind the computers at registration (it's all unionized and there's no control over that), there clearly needs to be a contingency plan for that kind of problem. Next year, there will of course be a larger number of old ladies with computers; pre-registration stations set up away from the melee; fewer details for the old ladies to key in... and other solutions.
However.... the issue of having to show ID to pick up badges, or being able to pick up multiple badges at once, or mailing badges ahead of time... isn't something that is likely change. Internext is now legally required to check ID for each badge handed over. It's an adult show... they don't want kids in there. I agree it was a hell of a lot easier when I could swing by and pick up the 25 badges I'd booked for my group in the past, but those days are gone. Now you've got to show ID.
The lines/ wait will not be so long next year.