home show at convention center

[cstleddy]

We went last year to the Southern Ideal Home Show at the Fairgrounds. It was much better than this ACS one held at the Raleigh convention center.

The ACS show is much smaller, fewer vendors, and just not much to it. We cruised up and down every isle in about 45 minutes.

My advice? Stay home and wait until the Southern Ideal show at the Fair.

[Crashj007]

Originally Posted by CYB

<>by the way, there is never any need to pay to go to these shows. Vendors are given an allotment of free tickets to hand out to potential customers. Prior to the show, go on the show website and pick out a vendor that interests you. They will most likely be happy to provide you with tickets

Great tip. We used a BOGO coupon from the mail and asked for and got a free parking coupon on entry to the hall. We enjoyed the show, despite the carnival barkers, and may actually use some of the vendors we met.

[adlnc07]

Originally Posted by cstleddy

We went last year to the Southern Ideal Home Show at the Fairgrounds. It was much better than this ACS one held at the Raleigh convention center.

The ACS show is much smaller, fewer vendors, and just not much to it. We cruised up and down every isle in about 45 minutes.

My advice? Stay home and wait until the Southern Ideal show at the Fair.

I wasn't that impressed with the Southern Ideal Home Show - so now I'm doubly glad I didn't bother with the convention center one!

[TuborgP]

Originally Posted by CYB

Hmmm. My company is exhibiting there this weekend and the general tone of the commentary backs up my personal feeelings. This show doesn't IMHO differentiate itself enough from the show at the fairgrounds( a much larger show with more and more varied vendors and speakers.)

As someone who depends on homeshows to generate a large portion of my yearly revenue I often wished for another local show. Now that I've gotten what I wished for I regret it.
The two shows are so similar and spaced so closely together that I fear they just split the visitors. So vendors have twice the work and expense to see the same number of people.

I'm probably done with the convention center show. Unless, of course, we get good results.

by the way, there is never any need to pay to go to these shows. Vendors are given an allotment of free tickets to hand out to potential customers. Prior to the show, go on the show website and pick out a vendor that interests you. They will most likely be happy to provide you with tickets

Thanks for the tip and good luck.

[lottamoxie]

I went this weekend. I had a free ticket & it came w/free parking so it was a good way to kill a couple hrs on a rainy day. Lots of candy because it was Halloween, so it was sort of like trick-or-treating without having to wear a costume. :-)

[redjuel]

I agree with the previous posts - it was pretty boring. I saw a shower head I wanted to buy from ProSparkleIt but forgot about it before I left so I went on their website on Monday morning. Wow, I was shocked to see that the price jumped from $105 at the show up to $220 on their website. So disappointed!