Anyone have extra San Diego Comic Con Passes?

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Last minute decision - if I can get a weekend pass I'm going to SDCC. The problem is, weekend passes are now sold out. :/

Anyone have an extra weekend pass they are willing to part with? Or know of anywhere I can get one?

PM me with offers. I'm also putting up a rather large trade list in the next few days, and if someone wants to trade I'll post the link.

Thanks so much.
 
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You cannot transfer or sell the passes this year. There was a lot of scalping on eBay last year, so they put that in place. I think there are some guest passes that people have that just say guest, but you won't be able to buy regular passes off other people unless you have the same name.
 
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I still haven't heard anything about my press passes, I am getting worried also. If you go on twitter and add comic-con, they are putting tickets up once a day but it is hard as hell. they are selling $10 over face value to cover costs. I am tying to get them in case I don't get mine.
 
My advice is to have Twitter up, hit f5 several times at about the time they say it's going to go up, and then have your paypal password copy and pasted so you can just hit cntrl V. I missed out on getting sat through the regular registration but I was able to get the eBay one.
 
no one checks your name to your badge. Once someone has a badge, they can throw it around anyones neck. The crack squad of security from the senior center up the road doesnt give a crap after 4 hours looking at the same pass over and over.
 
[quote name='Lice']no one checks your name to your badge. Once someone has a badge, they can throw it around anyones neck. The crack squad of security from the senior center up the road doesnt give a crap after 4 hours looking at the same pass over and over.[/QUOTE]

Yea, but if you go to buy something, pull out a credit card/Identification of any sort with a different name, it might throw up a red flag.
 
[quote name='georox']Yea, but if you go to buy something, pull out a credit card/Identification of any sort with a different name, it might throw up a red flag.[/QUOTE]

I don't think anyone besides security looks at your badge. I also don't think a vendor is going to not take your money if they even notice that the name on your badge doesn't match your credit card/ID.
 
[quote name='georox']Yea, but if you go to buy something, pull out a credit card/Identification of any sort with a different name, it might throw up a red flag.[/QUOTE]
People at booths don't care. As long as your I.D. matches your CC, they don't care. Money is money. I would love/wish I could go this year. It's just that hotels were booked and motel 6 is going for a freaking gazillion dollars. Honestly, I know of the history and everything associated with the San Diego Comic-Con, but I just don't get why don't just move the damn thing to some place that can handle above the 130,000 or so that San Diego's Convention Center is handling. Bring it over to Vegas, then you won't have vendors and booths going missing from year to year.
 
Fun fact, 98% of booths take cash only. It gets old going to ATM's but thats how it works.

2012 it is moving to vegas. This WAS in the booklet they mail out each year. They said they had a contract with SanDiego for 2 more years and then they where going to move to Vegas.
 
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[quote name='Lice']no one checks your name to your badge. Once someone has a badge, they can throw it around anyones neck. The crack squad of security from the senior center up the road doesnt give a crap after 4 hours looking at the same pass over and over.[/QUOTE]

You need to have your ID when you pick up your badge. The names need to match there. Same with Anime Expo.
 
[quote name='Lice']Fun fact, 98% of booths take cash only. It gets old going to ATM's but thats how it works.

2012 it is moving to vegas. This WAS in the booklet they mail out each year. They said they had a contract with SanDiego for 2 more years and then they where going to move to Vegas.[/QUOTE]

I don't know if 98% is so much an accurate statistic, since I know in year's past I was able to use my CC/Debit at several venders (Penny Arcade, Drunken Master DVDs, some of those shirt places, etc.), but yeah, cash is a must at this con.

By the way, I must have missed it in the booklet (I might have thrown it away already), but do you have a link that says it is moving to Vegas?
 
Are they really moving to Vegas? That may cut into the Hollywood factor. How many celebrities/tv actor/movie/actor/directors/etc. will find it convenient to fly to Vegas compared to the 1 1/2 hour drive to San Diego?
 
[quote name='Thedrknss48']You need to have your ID when you pick up your badge. The names need to match there. Same with Anime Expo.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='lice']no one checks your name to your badge. Once someone has a badge, they can throw it around anyones neck.[/quote]
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Hiccup, Im not sure now... im second guessing myself. There contract is up in 2012, which is for sure, and apparently reps for Las Vegas and LA are headed there this year for discussions. SO i may of read it wrong. I wish I still had my booklet. These are not the droids you are lookign for.

Ill keep an eye out.
 
[quote name='Lice']Fun fact, 98% of booths take cash only. It gets old going to ATM's but thats how it works.

2012 it is moving to vegas. This WAS in the booklet they mail out each year. They said they had a contract with SanDiego for 2 more years and then they where going to move to Vegas.[/QUOTE]

What booklet did you receive?

I never heard any confirmation of Vegas or Anaheim, San Diego just recently had a price quote to expand the convention center. Yes, the contract is up in 2012, but it has not been confirmd of a relocation.

Vegas would not work, could you see stormtroopers falling over in the 110 degree heat dropping like flies? also, I guess the guys passing out nudie cards on all the corners would start passing out nude pics of anime? Not a very family friendly place. San Diego needs to expand or it will lose other conventions also. This is the biggest draw here. I would hate to see it move. And Anaheim is too close to Disney, it is already too crowded there.

Also, I have paid with credit card at a high percentage of booths, it is just cash is faster.
 
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Hiccup, Im not sure now... im second guessing myself. There contract is up in 2012, which is for sure, and apparently reps for Las Vegas and LA are headed there this year for discussions. SO i may of read it wrong. I wish I still had my booklet. These are not the droids you are lookign for.

Ill keep an eye out.[/QUOTE]


i remember reading something about expansion plans for the convention center in SD, not too sure though.

the whole vegas thing is all speculation and consideration at this point.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668755.html

i hope it doesnt leave san diego cause i live here and... id prob never go to SDCC again if it were in vegas.
 
Ohh...Vegas. I live in Vegas, so I'm of mixed feelings about Comic-Con. One, it would be awesome if it were in Vegas, then I wouldn't have to make vacation plans to attend it like I have to do for San Diego. Two, I can only imagine the comic related after hours parties in Vegas.

But the bad would be--the weather over the summer. I can just imagine people in costumes keeling over from the heat. And the locals and casino workers bitching about the amount of families and small kids that the Con would bring into town (the casinos would probably look like Chuck E. Cheese on a weekend).

I suppose you could sneak into San Diego Comic-Con by swapping badges (although I have never tried it, nor intend to ever try it). We carry mainly cash anyways so no ID checks for us. The biggest plus about carrying cash...negotiating discounts on stuff at the vendor booths the last day of the Con! "Sorry, I've only got this $XX of cash and no credit card. The Con ends in a couple hours. Lets make a deal?"
 
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