Scott I'm in Connecticut and if you want to chip in a bit for gas there's no reason you can't ride with me. Trust me when I tell you, Metro North is WAY more expensive than the gas money to drive into the city. Especially if there is more than one of you. Drop me a PM and let me know what town you are in and I'll try and work it out.
OK. Here's the deal folks. I just got a bunch of answers back from my contact at NYCC and here is THE DEAL.
A 6 ft table DOES include 2 passes to the con. No extra charge. It also includes the 6 ft table and two chairs.
The cost for this is $500.
There is also another option. There is a 10ft by 10ft area that comes with 5 passes to the con. But there's a catch. No furniture is part of the cost.
The cost for one 10ftX10ft booth is $1,300 dollars. Split five ways that's $260 per. Now, Remedial Comics is going to need a full table. And if three others want to join up with us I'll eat the extra $20 (it would cost me $500 for a single table, two fifths of the 10by10 area comes to $520) as long as nobody gives me any guff about representing Webcomics Community there as well as themselves (I'll hang a banner or something and make some buttons up).
My contact suggested we get tables and chairs from somewhere else and truck them in. Renting from the Javitz Center is supposedly VERY expensive. I've contacted my local Taylor Rental and they have what we need. Tables are $8.50 a piece for the whole con (picked up on the Thursday before and returned on Monday). Chairs are $1.25, once again, for the whole con. We would have to figure out how we are going to split up the area.
The only problem I see here is if the booth is like, walled in with only one face towards the con goers. And I think that might be the case. This would only give us a little actual crowd facing space with a lot of space behind us. So this is probably not ideal.
What I recommend is if we can enough people involved we could do something pretty cool with a 10 by 20 foot space. But I don't think a 10X10 is going to do us any good.
Ultimately though, I think if there are only a couple people involved it might be best to just get your own 6ft table.
I need to make a decision fairly soon so talk to me people. If you want a 6fter of your own it's $500 plus whatever it costs for you to be there (hotel, flight, whatever). If you want to split a 6fter with someone it seems Cary, Scott, Gibson and Swinsea are all somewhat interested. With Jaded Guy and his crisis of confidence as a kinda sorta maybe (LOL, just messing with you man). So maybe you guys can talk it over and figure out if you want to split a table or do something else.
Let me know. But don't take long.
