Midwest Gaming Classic 2K12 - March 24th & 25th

[Matt-El]

Tables purchased, room reserved, looking forward to another year selling. I look forward to seeing you there everyone.

[wallydawg]

To whom it may concern,

Benheck Experience needs more tables this year. There was around 5 or 6 of us fighting for tablespace last year. I think one or two extra would suffice. Live mods/fixing stuff again and all that again hopefully.

[goatdan]

To whom it may concern,

Benheck Experience needs more tables this year. There was around 5 or 6 of us fighting for tablespace last year. I think one or two extra would suffice. Live mods/fixing stuff again and all that again hopefully.

Contact me direct -- if you don't have my email addy, contact me via the MGC Contact forum and I'll get back to you.

As always, we'll do everything within our power to provide more space for stuff, but I can't really guarantee anything. We've taken over the lobby and the restaurant now, and unless we're going to start using hotel rooms, I don't know what more we can do! But again, email me, we'll talk

[Compute]

I need to have my VB fixed, can I just bring it in or will I need to make an "appointment" ? I'd fix it myself, but I'd rather have someone do it who has done it before.

[wallydawg]

We tried to fix This Guy's VB last year and no luck. Can't really do the oven the oven trick to fix horizontal screen lines in the middle of a hotel, but anyone can bring whatever in and we can at least take a look at it. I think our actual success rate of actually fixing something is pretty low with just one or two things a year (last year I think we fixed a Tapwave Zodiac, of all things), but we mean well and try our best, and sometimes it comes up aces. A lot of times if we can't fix something, whether from insufficient tools or not our area of expertise, we can at least point you in the right direction.

[Compute]

That would be awesome. One of the eyepieces is out. I've read a billion threads on this, so I'll say it's the "easy" one. Maybe I can find a buyer with only one eye at the show.

[Tupin]

Got everything planned out, but I should probably buy my tickets in advance this year. The line is always very long, but it's just getting it earlier, not getting them in the mail? Or is it?

Either way, can't wait. Marty made an awesome show last year, especially with the 80's room in the museum.

[goatdan]

Got everything planned out, but I should probably buy my tickets in advance this year. The line is always very long, but it's just getting it earlier, not getting them in the mail? Or is it?

You get your vouchers in the mail that you need to turn in for tickets at the show.

You can start turning in your vouchers this year at 9am. At 9:30am, a few select halls will open early ONLY for those who pre-ordered. It is also the only way to get the MGC limited edition style T-shirt.

Finally, it helps improve the show that very year. 100% of the money that we raise from pre-order tickets we immediately re-invest into the show that same year, so you're helping us make an even better experience for you!

[dave2236]

I knew I had a pretty good size collection of Star Trek and Star Wars Hallmark ornaments. I didn't know I had this many, especially multiple duplicates. Sine I am starting to run out of video games to sell, I will have all my extras for sale this year in my booth. DSCF2016.jpgDSCF2025.jpgDSCF2019.jpgDSCF2024.jpg

[Jeff-20]

Is anyone else getting spam links on the midwest gaming site?

[goatdan]

Is anyone else getting spam links on the midwest gaming site?

Jeff,

Could you explain more? I just checked out our site, and I don't see anything that appears to be out of the ordinary... If something's going wrong, I'd like to know so I can fix it!

[backguard]

Past vendors -

For someone looking to thin out their collection, is it worth grabbing a $100 table? Ideally I'd bring 2-3k worth of inventory and hope to clear it out.

Edit: on the spam question I didn't see anything. I just surfed through vendor info.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Definitely yes.

[98PaceCar]

Past vendors -

For someone looking to thin out their collection, is it worth grabbing a $100 table? Ideally I'd bring 2-3k worth of inventory and hope to clear it out.

Edit: on the spam question I didn't see anything. I just surfed through vendor info.

I haven't been a vendor there but I do end up spending more money at this show than pretty much all of the other shows in the year combined.

[Tupin]

Kind of unrelated to this year, but how much did that LaserActive go for last year during the silent auction. If I remember, it was something ridiculously low.

But man, do people bring awesome stuff to MGC. I've seen stuff there I've never seen anywhere else. A little bit more than a month left!

[goatdan]

Past vendors -

For someone looking to thin out their collection, is it worth grabbing a $100 table? Ideally I'd bring 2-3k worth of inventory and hope to clear it out.

Technically, since the GOAT Store is a vendor, I can answer this... but we purposely sort of "gimp" the GOAT Store and don't bring that much because Gary and I are so busy running the rest of the show. Having said that, it does huge business for us each year, and we only take very limited inventory. Not sure if that helps, but it is what it is.

My real reason for replying however -- if you're interested in a table *at all*, please contact us immediately about it to be put on the waiting list. We're way out of regular table space, and we created a wait list that we're going to put our heads together early next week and see where else we might be able to put interested vendors. The table space won't be perfect -- you may have to pack things up each night, or something -- but it will be cheaper, and we're doing everything we can to make it so that everyone who wants to can vend. Unfortunately, honestly, it looks like that won't be able to happen perfectly, but we're really trying.

Edit: on the spam question I didn't see anything. I just surfed through vendor info.

*whew*. If anyone does see something, please contact me so we can take care of it ASAP! It should have any issues.

[backguard]

GD - PM sent.

[dave2236]

By far the best show to sell at and go to.

[WizDawg]

By far the best show to sell at and go to.

I agree!

I sold one year and sold a ton of stuff (mostly my doubles).

However I enjoy playing all the pins, listening to speakers, participating in tournaments, and all the other cool stuff that happens more than vending; but if you wanted to sell your collection this would be the show to do it.

This going to be my 4th year in a row.

[Jeff-20]

Jeff,

Could you explain more? I just checked out our site, and I don't see anything that appears to be out of the ordinary... If something's going wrong, I'd like to know so I can fix it!

Ok, I just checked on my iphone and my laptop. I used four different browsers. All the side links take me to some Canadian pill website. Could you clear your cache and make sure I'm not going crazy? Because even my google search reveals cached spam.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I was going to say that you probably have a virus but if it's doing it with your iPhone that's...weird. I know routers can get infected but that still wouldn't explain the iPhone.

Everything's ok on my end.

[goatdan]

Jeff -- Not sure what you mean by 'side links', as when I go to the site it is fine -- however, something seems to be weirding out with our Google links -- if you go to Google.com and you do the image thing, I get the exact same thing that you see. Clicking on any of these links that aren't the main one throws a server error of some type, very weird. If you load the pages with the exact same URLs through directly or by clicking on them after heading to www.midwestgamingclassic.com, everything shows up normally.

So... the other show-organizer Gary, who is sort of our web site guru, has been informed. He thinks that he might know what happens, which has to do with Google search results being redirected. He thinks he has a way to fix it.

In checking the site through other searches, any other web site does not seem to have any of the errors. It is *only* Google searching throwing them. We'll see what we can do.

Until then, just head to the site directly -- http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ as we have a lot of great news coming out every day!

[goatdan]

Figured it out -- thanks for the heads up, Jeff. Google preview cache should change sooner than later, although clicking on the links takes you to the correct pages already. It was a strange thing that was *only* was showing up in the Google search results, and then only part of them.

[Eternal Tune]

Just bought my plane ticket to Wisconsin. Last year I drove and boy was that a mess.

[chrisbid]

when will the guest speaker list be announced?