Getting Nervous

[lukadia]

I still haven't heard from the Detour alley staff about my table, so I went to the site. The alley page was still showing the same registration information as when it went live on October 1, and there was no list of confirmed Alley participants, so I checked the forum

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[vicemage]

If you get a reply, post about it? The artist alley at Detour has been a "Flaky Ghost-Staff" for years (and I have a suspicion that the head has "banned" me after I started calling him out on his lack of communication last year so I doubt an email from me will get any more attention this year than it did last year). I've heard nothing back at all, myself, and registered the day it opened up, when linked by a staff member who knew I was interested. Really, were this an actual business and not a hobby for any of these guys, the alley head would have been kicked to the curb ages ago.

[awriter]

God, that sucks. :(

[te_llamo]

Ouch, that sucks. Sounds like crappy customer service to me. Seems like if they were going to take time out of their life to organize a con, they wouldn't half-ass the part that gets them the most money. Seems like it'd be difficult to get artists to come back that way.

Anyway, hopefully the con did mean October and you do get a spot. Best of luck.

[proplady]

Suddenly I don't feel so bad about missing the Artist Alley deadline. Sounds like I wouldn't have had a chance anyway.

I kind of wish the AA tables were free and "first come, first serve" like they were at Animazement years ago. Sure you run the risk of not getting one (although I daytripped, showed up late daily and was still able to get a table every day the last time I went.) I don't want to accuse convention runners of getting greedy, but if you're going to force artists to become customers in order to use your venue, then you'd better damn well provide them with decent customer service. Why do people think they can treat artists so shittily and get away with it?

[red_doughnut]

That's a pretty crappy situation. I really expected more from AD since they do a pretty good job on everything else. I would try to contact someone else, perhaps AD operations, and ask them who you could contact outside of the artist alley in order to file a complaint. You could also show up to one of the volunteer meetings they have and talk to the alley head directly. Since the meetings are open to the public, they can't bitch about you being there. I would suggest bringing some other unsatisfied artists along for support.