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No. 2546545
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>What do you make?
>Where do you sell? Cons, local markets?
>What's the item that sells best/worst?
>Any advice for old and new artists and crafters?
>Somebody tried to scam you? Rob you? Harrassed you? Any horror stories?
>What's something you cannot stand in a con/market? Cringy cosplayers? Rude people? Other vendors being insufferable? Stinky neighbours?
>What's your no-buy list? (ex. you don't buy from people supporting gender ideology, you don't buy from weird, kinky people etc)
>What makes you buy merch or support an artist?
>Share tips! Where do you keep your merch? How do you protect your booth?
>Best social media to share art? Tips? (Please avoid basic stuff like drawing fotm or using tags, we know, we need serious advice)
>For the same reason, drop any resource that you want to share: con guidelines, con prices, booth prices, why you were approved/rejected, which cons are better and which are worse (for staff, people, position etc)
No. 2546631
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>>2546549Picrel, most cons in the US at least have a physical card badge with a lanyard, and you can stick ribbons on the bottom. It's like a big plastic card with your name and the access type on it (weekend pass, single day etc.) If wristbands are used, they're for adult area access only and the cheap paper kind.
Sometimes at smaller cons they'll have a paper/cardboard pass that goes in a holder, but the overall form is similar.
A lot have your name (or at least a space to write it), but I've noticed that falling out of favor with the more fancy plastic badges. They usually have some nice con related art on them too.
I've seen wristbands like you're describing at festivals, seems more annoying/intrusive for cosplaying.
Badge ribbons are also sometimes used for stuff like disability access, in which case it's something the con gives themselves. But usually they're attendee produced. Some people just sell them, but it's common to have them as rewards for doing a little task or visiting booths (stamp rally etc.)
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>>2546631I always hated those lanyard badges! They're clunky and ugly and imo ruins cosplays and outfits because you have to wear them around your neck in an uncomfortable way and taking them off often messes up your hair/wig. They usually only give these to staff and AA/vendors/guests.
The actual "badges" visitors get look like picrel, and it's even kind of a status symbol among some (usually men for some reason) to keep all the old bands and wear them all at once like in picrel to show you're a veteran con-goer. Though this guy cut off all the ends where the metal clamp is, but usually you can use pliers to pull the clamp out a bit so you can take them off/on after the con as a bracelet without having to cut it off as intended.
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What item do you earn the most from nonas? Do you have a big expensive one like an ita bag that gets you covered if you just sell 1, or do you sell like 500 stickers?
And as a site note, can you nonas please all become artist alley youtubers because every time I google something all I get is this lady and it would be nice to see some varity!
No. 2547632
>>2547139The wristband is fabric, it's equally sturdy to a fabric lanyard.
I think the main issue is that a lanyard can easily be taken off and thus used to let multiple people in in secret who didn't actually buy tickets. It's also easy to lose it if you take it off, or if the lanyard isn't one with clasps that open when you pull It's a safety hazard. On the rare occasions I've seen them at events here you weren't allowed to wear them any other way than around your neck for easy identification.
No. 2547948
>>2547802Depends on what your goal is. It sounds like your goal isn't to sell/earn as much as possible, but to sell out. So in that case your normal amount is fine, since you'll likely sell out and thus have reached your goal!
If you had wanted to sell/earn as much as possible you shouldn't be focused on selling out since that just means you're losing out on sales. For example it's possible you could have been able to sell twice or thrice as much of your best selling items at the smaller cons all along, but since you prefer selling out it means you actually have no idea how many of them there are a demand for. It could be that all along you would have been able to easily sell 15, 30, 50 or 100 of them. The only items you actually know the demand for are the ones that didn't sell out, because you know exactly how many you were able to sell of them.
How come you're scared of unsold merch? I love unsold merch because it means everyone who wanted to buy one got to buy it, and I don't have to restock every single item every con. Though I sell some items that have a long production time so it's a big chore and takes a long time to order more of those.
No. 2547960
>>2547948>How come you're scared of unsold merch?I'm a really small artist (I only sell original art so that narrows my customer base down to a fraction of that of fanartists) and even though I've applied to 8 cons this year I've only gotten into two. I don't plan on doing this forever either so idk, I feel like the initial investment that I put towards the merch will be completely lost if I'm left with tons of unsold stuff.
You make good points though! I guess for me it's just really hard to approximate which items will sell and which won't so I'm playing it safe by ordering less and restocking every con.
No. 2548407
>>2546969>>2548124Awesome! I’d love to trade, gift, or buy some merch from some of you beloved Dokononnies, but I don’t know how to recognize a
nonny’s booth while trying to avoid any accidental interaction about this thread with a tif/normie kek
No. 2548435
>>2548124If you get lost don't be afraid to get an uber, they're pretty common in the larger cities and I've never had an issue with them before, also saves a lot of trouble carrying around your luggage. I'm traveling on Thursday, thinking about setting up that day as well!
>>2548407I don't know how I could signal I am a fellow nona without outing myself besides having no pronouns in my social media bio kek. But I know it's not foolproof.
No. 2548727
>>2548407Of course I wouldn't out myself but let's say that no pronouns on table, no pride merch, no tif like appearance (meaning no patchy moustache, no broccoli hair, no ill fitting tank tops), no random gross shit (meaning no scars, no clearly self hating art depicting self harm, cuntboys or implied cuntboys - tifs do not draw women due to muh dysphoria but of course they love drawing gross looking pussies), no edgy stuff like a 7th grader would do and I guess you already cut out the most obvious ones. I learned that clean looking girls, meaning nice hair, makeup and clothes that are well kept/styled are less likely to be tras because tras love to shock with their appearance but also do not assume that every alt girl is a tra, I'm one before troonism became a trend and I hate how they appropriated goth styles. Look out for what they sell: the last yaoi fandom? There's a good chance that's a tif since they gravitate towards media only for the yaoi appeal, so look out for spokons, mihoyo stuff, male centric gacha, the new thing now is Alien Stage and Love and Deepspace, male kpop group fanarts and such.
On the other hand, look out for women (of course don't shop from males) that sell original art or more obscure fandom, you don't have the absolute certainity that they're not a tra but at least you wont be putting money in a tif's pocket to pay for her shitty testosterone. Avoid the nsfw area, not only it's full of shit art that only got it for having nipples and dicks out, tifs use the nsfw area to go full retard about self harming and yaoi shit and you will also avoid getting exposed to overall gross shit, don't ruin your day lol.
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>>2548407>I don’t know how to recognize a nonny’s booth while trying to avoid any accidental interaction about this thread with a tif/normie kekI'm not going to dokomi, but I think one thing to look for (not just for nonas but secret terfs) is if someone has unnatural dyed hair and alt fashion but not a single troon/gender/pride/pronoun thing for sale (or as decor of course). So
>dyed hairBecause for troons the ones who look like gremlins with dyed hair are
never just casual allies, they're always super deep into troonism and feel obligated to have at least a few troon items (and more often they identify as troons). So when someone with dyed hair doesn't do any of it (and we know they're fully aware of troonism from being in those alt spaces) then that's a sign they don't buy into it.
>Harry Potter items on saleBecause they are seen as evil and supporting JKR/trans genocide. I still see several booths at cons where I live with HP stuff on sale which makes me very happy.
>Lizards/geckosThey're the detrans symbol. If you were to see one that just happens to have a message about healing or wearing a bandaid that's likely a detrans seller (who is now peaked and anti-trans).
>Suffragette colors - purple white greenAdopted by terfs, so if you see art that use these 3 as a combo in "feminist" leaning art that could be a sign.
>Cow (or milk) item on sale or as decorSpecifically for lc you could bring a cow plush or toy to subtly keep on your table, or sell cow merch. I think it's easy to make up a lie if anyone asks, like "oh my toddler niece gave it to me haha she wanted me to have it", "I grew up in the country side so it's like a good luck charm" or "I just love stardew valley a lot".
>Azumarill (the pokemon)It's the
terf pokemon according to lc, it's not unpopular but it's very rare to see it. So if you see someone selling basic popular pokemon AND azumarill you know that's a sign they're from lc. Even more so if it's in the punk outfit kek
None of them are 100% accurate, anyone could do any of them but the more of them a seller hits the more likely it is that they're a
terf or from lc.
No. 2549021
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I just got my first vograce order! Is it normal to receive a lot more stickers than you bought? I got about 60% more than I actually paid for
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>>2549238>I usually get extras when I order 2 inchThey were 2 inch stickers! I think maybe you're right that they fill up the space or something, 19 is such an odd number to end up on.
I saw some egg themed art earlier and it made me happy that the egg trend has died kek. Does anyone else remember when everything was eggs? Have you disliked any art trends? Other than troon art because that's a given