Salute 2015

[thebinmann]

Damn I might be able to make it, but what's this? NO BRING AND BUY? I said:

NO BRING AND BUY?

[zizi666]

There wasn't one this year either.

[thebinmann]

argh I'm never going again!

[Mason]

argh I'm never going again!

To be honest, and I am certainly no fan of Salute since it moved to Excel, the B+B was one of the worst bits.
Like being in a rugby scrum with a tribe of people that all possess rucksacks but had not heard of soap.....

[thebinmann]

Ah you got it!

I liked Salute at the old town hall! bah humbug! Even the other big place was too big for me. I liked the small rooms and getting lost....

[Phil Robinson]

Don't worry if there was one you would not be able to see anything in the Stygian gloom.

[joroas]

It vanished from Worlds this year too.......

[Captain Blood]

Don't worry if there was one you would not be able to see anything in the Stygian gloom.

...Or without clambering over the ten deep crowd of smelly-bottomed, rucksack-swinging autists busily elbowing each other aside in their frenzied scrabbling for a bargain.

Good riddance. Always hated bring and buys. They should have been called 'Bring-out-the-worst-in-everbodys' instead.
Personally I'm glad the Warlords canned it and turned over the space to something less bad-behaviour-inducing. 

[joroas]

Or without clambering over the ten deep crowd of smelly-bottomed, rucksack-swinging autists busily elbowing each other aside in their frenzied scrabbling for a bargain.

Oh! You've been to Colours then?

[Phil Robinson]

Oh! You've been to Colours then?

You do all that only to discover that 98% of it is tat or overpriced or even overpriced tat and you have missed the 2%

[Bugsda]

Good riddance.

Yep!

[zizi666]

You do all that only to discover that 98% of it is tat or overpriced or even overpriced tat and you have missed the 2%

Not a fan of GW, I presume ?

[Phil Robinson]

 

Not a fan of GW, I presume ?

  forgot about the 75% being GW tat.

[Tactalvanic]

did no get there for 2014, first time there in 2013.

sounds like the other venues added to the experience but have to admit to thinking the bring and buy was a waste of space.

People being nasty on the off chance they might get a bargain. People selling tat not even normally seen on evil bay.

To be honest there have to be more interesting and pleasant things they can use the space for.

[Captain Blood]

Oh! You've been to Colours then?

Every bring and buy seems to have the same rent-a-mob... I guess that's what they go for.

People being nasty on the off chance they might get a bargain. People selling tat not even normally seen on evil bay.

Yep.

forgot about the 75% being GW tat.

Yep.

You do all that only to discover that 98% of it is tat or overpriced or even overpriced tat and you have missed the 2%

YEP!

The good old bring and buy... A lot of middle-aged men behaving badly, in desperate pursuit of the illusion of a bargain.

Thank God show organisers are gradually nixing these odious and malodorous bunfights.