Swap Meet in the Toronto area!!! Finally!!!

[Bighab]

I've got first dibs

[Achika]

Gonna unsticky this and move it to the EVENTS forum.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=26

[stonecutter]

turns out this might not work for me, my son has a soccer tournament on this day. I will try my best though.

[TokenGamer]

The first annual TokenGamer Swap Meet has come and gone with great success!!! Thanks to all who attended!!! Big round of applause!

Attendance expectations more than doubled. Lots of people walked out with lots of stuff. Everyone was very courteous. There were no major (or minor) incidents. It seemed as though most of the deals were gracious and leaned in the buyers favor. I know I gave out a few good deals. I was hoping it would become a trend and motivate people to attend the next swap meet.

Speaking of the next swap meet... I have already set the ball rolling for it. All proceeds from this swap (including the money I made from selling my own stuff) are going directly into the next one. I have come up with plenty of ideas for it in terms of marketing. I’ll create another thread to take any suggestions/feedback from everyone just like before. I want to seriously increase attendance but I’m still not sure if I want to get a larger place right away just because there was still an empty table or two and lots of room to move around. I’m committed to eventually competing with the shows in the US. I’m confident that we can do it here in the GTA in the next few years. The larger US shows have had a considerable head start but we can kick ass too!!!

I really enjoyed talking to everyone and putting user names with faces and real names. Hopefully this event expanded everyone's collection and makes people more comfortable with trading through the mail to continue expanding collections now that lots of us got a chance to meet in person.

[stonecutter]

Sorry I couldn't make it. I was really disappointed I couldn't. By the time my sons soccer tourney was done, I just didn't have time.