What changes would you make to Internext?

[Dravyk]

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.

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?

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.

Trapped people? Now I see that as an opportunity.

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 ...