[SGVLUG] The price of (near) success?

Michael Proctor-Smith mproctor13 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 14:41:21 PDT 2005


On 10/3/05, Emerson, Tom <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> The folks that run the popular computer "swapmeet" better known nowadays as the "L.A. computer fair" seem to be in a bittersweet position:  Earlier this year, they announced that "sundays" in pomona were cancelled for the rest of the year (for unspecified, but easy-to-guess reasons).

My guess is that they did not want to pay the fair grounds for the
extra day. But there is now way that they could get as many people
through in one day.


> Now, they've reversed themselves and starting with October 30th, sundays have been re-instated (due to popular demand, or so they claim, which is counter to the reason why they stopped them in the first place)
>
> there is a show scheduled for this saturday the 8th as well, but apparently too short a notice to get vendors to commit to sunday.

Personally cancelling Sundays pissed me off, as Lots of times I have
stuff to do on Saturday.


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