JDgreen227
Super Member
Today's news has a front page story about the annual Home and Garden show near East Lansing, Michigan. It says they will have about 300 exhibitors there, who will share ideas on how to spruce up your yard or home. Seems like a good idea to attend, until you read the information about the admission charge:
$8 per adult, $4 for kids ages 6 thru 14. WHAT A RIPOFF.
It ticks me off big time when "shows" which are basically nothing but a form of advertising, expect the attendees to pay to admission. The businesses that are at the shows hope to attract customers in order to do business, so why are the potential customers expected to pay to attend? When you go to a car dealership, do they ask you to pay them $8 for the opportunity to buy a new car? When you go to a local builder to get an estimate for new windows, do they ask you to pay $10 for an estimate? NO TO BOTH.
Charging admission to shows like the one I mentioned in the opening paragraph is a RIPOFF, pure and simple. The exhibitors are simply cutting their own throats by expecting to make money off potential customers.
$8 per adult, $4 for kids ages 6 thru 14. WHAT A RIPOFF.
It ticks me off big time when "shows" which are basically nothing but a form of advertising, expect the attendees to pay to admission. The businesses that are at the shows hope to attract customers in order to do business, so why are the potential customers expected to pay to attend? When you go to a car dealership, do they ask you to pay them $8 for the opportunity to buy a new car? When you go to a local builder to get an estimate for new windows, do they ask you to pay $10 for an estimate? NO TO BOTH.
Charging admission to shows like the one I mentioned in the opening paragraph is a RIPOFF, pure and simple. The exhibitors are simply cutting their own throats by expecting to make money off potential customers.