The Video Game Market - Mar 15 Leeds - Retro Games Sales Fai

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Pic of GG

[zapiy]

Nice one fella. Did you spread the RVG love? 

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Nice one fella. Did you spread the RVG love?

I mentioned the site yes, some good people there to.talk to. Maybe we should get some business cards lol

[zapiy]

I have some in the pipeline but finances have not aloud it up till now. Once I get them I shall share them around to those that go to events and are willing to spread some love lol.

[guest4732]

Not posted in ages but thought I would come on and say I shall be at the market on Saturday and I really hope its a success and something that can grow and maybe turn into a bi-anually/quarterly or even monthly thing.

Ill be on the lookout for some virtual boy games (finally got a boxed one a couple of months ago), SNES stuff and maybe another gameboy

see you all there

Well I have to say I ended up being very disappointed and rather annoyed with the whole event.

Arrived just after 10am to find a que going half way around the town hall outside. Stood there for around a hour before getting in to see

- A mad scrum to get near any stall
- A couple of stalls selling things for a ridiculous amount (if anyone paid the price one of the stalls were selling the boxed snes or the amiga cd32 for then Im sorry you got extremely ripped off)
- Just a bunch of rude people barging through people to get to things

I tried to get a snes controller from one of the stalls to get completely pushed out of the way from someone just so they could point to something on the stall, laugh at it, then walk away. I left pretty much immediately after that (after only being there about 20 minutes)

It was just poorly planned and would have to be a completely different idea before I even begin to think about doing the 2 hour trip I did to go to another.

1 last thing - The stall that will remain nameless for now that were franticly taking all the stickers off their items and putting new ones on nearly double the price for some things were a complete disgrace. They took a game out of my hand to put a new sticker on £5 higher.

[TL]

1 last thing - The stall that will remain nameless for now that were franticly taking all the stickers off their items and putting new ones on nearly double the price for some things were a complete disgrace. They took a game out of my hand to put a new sticker on £5 higher.

Chillout Games by any chance? I caught them doing this at Revival last year.

[guest4732]

1 last thing - The stall that will remain nameless for now that were franticly taking all the stickers off their items and putting new ones on nearly double the price for some things were a complete disgrace. They took a game out of my hand to put a new sticker on £5 higher.

Chillout Games by any chance? I caught them doing this at Revival last year.

I dont think so, I have the name on a picture on my phone. It was the opposite corner of the room to the entrance.

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Bit more info...

I'd agree the venue for the event was too small, and some of the visitors a little overzealous in their pushing manner which meant I wasnt inclined to spend as much time browsing as I would have, 2 stalls I didnt actually see as it was too bunched up.

There were some good people to chat to though - the Rockrabilia shop is going to be a fav of mine I think as they based only a few miles from me making pick up easy 

[TL]

Bit more info...

I'd agree the venue for the event was too small, and some of the visitors a little overzealous in their pushing manner which meant I wasnt inclined to spend as much time browsing as I would have, 2 stalls I didnt actually see as it was too bunched up.

There were some good people to chat to though - the Rockrabilia shop is going to be a fav of mine I think as they based only a few miles from me making pick up easy  :16:

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Rockrabilia are brilliant and the owner Tim is a great guy 

Yeah he the lady on the stall were best people I spoke to, Ive been on their eBay site and there some things not on there he said he had so I'll drop him a line later this week when I know how much more I can spend lol

The LeedsRetro page on FB has a few commens re the overcrowding - is that common at these events?

[TL]

Not really no, most events are fine, probably why so many people are pissed off.

Only a few weeks now until the next event!

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Not really no, most events are fine, probably why so many people are pissed off.

Only a few weeks now until the next event!

Ah good, I hate it when any events are over subscribed/too busy as you spend too much time queuing or waiting rather than actually doing what you went for

[mainvein]

Hi everyone, i have finally recovered from the weekend (and what a weekend it was) so I wanted to give a massive thanks out to everyone who attended, sold at and helped us out at the VideoGame Market on Saturday, its great to see soo many people who are interested in retro gaming, i met lots of great people, caught up with lots of old friends and I'm so happy to see the scene being embraced so well.

It was a successful day all round i believe, but there were a number of issues.  As it was the first event it was a sort of unknown, we were kind of testing the market for this, but its a learning experience and we can now plan bigger and better for the next one and plan accordingly so we don't get the same issues as this one.

The turnout for this took us completely by surprise to be honest, we always thought that there was a demand for a purely sales event but never on that level.  So a truly heartfelt thank you for everyone who waited patiently to get in and putting up with the heat and the crowding. 

We were expecting around the 4/500 mark to turn up over the course of the 6 hours, this is the standard type of volume that the comic fairs, toy fairs and vinyl fairs get in Leeds.  We also looked at the big events like Play Expo, Revival, Nerg, Geek, they get lots more visitors but as they have so much more on offer than just selling and are designed to keep you there and entertained for a whole weekend, people go to them for a larger number of reasons, so we honestly believed that 4/500 was a realistic number for the day........ but we actually had over 1500 tickets sold! (and thats not including all of the under 16s who came in for free). 

The venue had a maximum capacity which we reached early on, and then for health and safety reasons it had to operate on a one in one out policy, so unfortunately it did mean that people had to wait for long periods of time, but as the day went on the queues went down and in the end everybody would have been able to get in.  We went through the queue a few times apologising for the wait, giving out sweets and t shirts and everyone we spoke to seemed ok with it (and it looked like a lot of people were making new retro buddies in the queue).  So thanks for the patience and understanding guys, hope you all got some good pickups inside. 

We definitely need a much much larger venue next time and that is what we will get for you guys! In hindsight we should have gone for the main hall room, it is massive and would have had the space to accommodate everyone easily but we have learned a lot from Saturday and we can now plan accordingly for future events now we have real tangible numbers to work with.  Let us know your thoughts too, what did you enjoy, what didn't you like, what did you buy too?

Personally, it was great to see so much retro goodness in one room, i love seeing all of the games, machines and fellow enthusiasts.  Thanks again for coming, thanks to everyone involved and I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the next one.

Roll on the sequel!! .....

[Big Phil]

A video I did of the event. Filmed around 1:30pm. It was a bit busier before that.

Leeds Video Game Market

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

The opposite corner of this was he worst place to try and see things for sale as it was rammed, it was also where the stall I wanted was lol