Mini rant, about nothing important, LOL, convention stuffs.

[ht_murray]

There's a J and J Photo Op for sale on ebay.

Current sale price... $562.75.

Tell me Creation doesn't have a license to charge whatever it wants for these things. It makes me ill, and the more I see it, the more I know I won't be doing another one ever again, not even for Misha. Maybe a movie will shoot somewhere nearby and Misha will be cast, and I can go stalk him for free. LOL.

Oh, and some perspective...

Since the plant was closed for the last two weeks in December, and they only let us use vacation time for the first one, the paycheck I just got was for the 8 hours of paid vacation on January 1 only. It was a little over $35.00 after they took out taxes, 401k and insurance. And that's the biggest check I saw. Most of my coworkers got checks for less than a dollar.

Comments

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's the photo op equivalent of a scalped ticket - the person who's reselling it can charge whatever the market will bear, because the tickets are sold out? I'd never buy sports tickets for thousands of dollars, but I know people do.

At least if one gives money directly to the conventions for stuff, presumably some of it goes to the actors as well as all the other people who run the thing. I continue to be irrationally creeped out by the whole idea of cons. :)

[rejeneration.livejournal.com]

Jesus. The amt of money. Think of all the things you could do with that. It kind of hurts!

[vanae.livejournal.com]

Stuff like this creeps me out. Mostly, that someone out there would pay this kind of money for this sort of thing. Just... in my part of the woods, you'd have to be mentally unstable to some degree. They're people, that's all. Yeah, they're damn fine looking and they're making us laugh and cry and we appreciate what they do but at the end of the day that's it. It scares me that people like the buyer is gonna be that close to them... and it makes me sad that said buyer is at a point in her/his life where they find that it's this much of a must to do this (he/she is not buyng a con experience of fun and whatnot, just a photo op!). If it's because the buyer is insanely rich, well, that money could have gone to something way better.

I like cons. I like cons when all they're asking for is pay for the work they do and when it's about having fun for all involved. Not money.

*rant over*

[astri13.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That's something else. I mean usually the convention expenses, photo tickets, pictures, the odd little piece of merchandise are the smallest part of my spendings, what with flying to a foreign country, expensive hotel and all that but Creation seriously tries to turn that principle around.

Only way I'm going to another of their cons is if I can make the Vancouver one and have that be summer vacation.

But compared to the British convention where you play 10-20 pounds for a photo op - which should be around 30-35 bucks maybe? - and autographs are free for everybody, it's a whole different world. I also like the concept to put "special events" like the little one hour meet with a star for 20 people up for raffle tickets and not for auction. Like that everybody has a chance to win that, not just the people who apparently grow money on trees.

[starry-ice.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the law is in the U.S., but in Canada it's illegal to sell an event ticket for more than it's printed value unless you have a really good excuse like it's for charity or something...

[heather03nmg.livejournal.com]

What I don't understand is how these tickets are being resold. Creation states on their site that all sales are final and non-transferable. Plus they check your ID at will call. So does this seller have special permission from creation to resell or are they just hoping that it all somehow works out?
Because seriously, I can be shady and buy extra photo ops and resell them for profit.

[angels3.livejournal.com]

Well the person that buys it is even more stupid in my opinion soooo.

I mean especially in this economy.

It looks like they'll be restructering at work soon and isn't that always a joy so I'll be waiting to see how that goes.

I would have though they would've not taken out like 401 or something on those checks just as common sense.

[sams1ra.livejournal.com]

0_O

[pinkoceantides.livejournal.com]

That pisses me off, I hate that shit.

[unplugged32.livejournal.com]

If someone buys it, they're pretty insane:/ That's like the cost of the hotel with meals at Asylum for the 3 of us, so paying that for 30 seconds for a pic where your eyes might end up closed or there might be something stuck on your nose is pretty silly.

{{snuggles}}

[redheadforever.livejournal.com]

The same person is auctioning one Gold Weekend pass; so far one bidder at $400 flat.

She refers to the photo op in that listing as "the J&J sandwich." Whee.