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05/07/12(Mon)09:36 No.5809306It
sucks to have your stuff stolen, especially when you're int he artist's
alley. The con I go to is pretty small, and this year was my first year
not cosplaying and actually selling keychains. I made a buttload of
keychains and worked really hard on making them cute and well-coloured
and making sure they were put together really well.
My table was
next to a friend of mine whose art is really famous on DA. She sold a
ton of shit, while I was lucky to have maybe one or two people buy a
keychain an hour. I still had fun selling, though, and people were
really nice to me and complimented my art, but because I wasn't doing
all the 'mainstream animus and mangoes' my stuff wasn't selling too well
(should done Kuroshit or Narushit, gdi).
The worst part of my
fucking day, though, was when a bunch of hambeasts came to my table,
glomped each other all over my wares and knocked my stuff to the ground,
and when I had everything sorted again I found they'd taken my stuff. I
had three stands of the keychains (one of each design) pinned to
elastic so they wouldn't move, a small display stand of 5xeach design
for easy handing-over to customers, and a tupperware box full of the
rest of my wares. And while I'd been busy picking up my display stand,
they'd filched my tupperware box.
It feels fucking bad, man. I
spent so long on those goddamned keychains, and I was even selling them
cheaply too (like $1 each). The money I would have made I'd planned to
have a really nice dinner with my friends post-con to celebrate one of
their cosplay wins. Instead I had to close my booth up early, and made a
massive loss. |
