Bernie, It was great to see you! Thank you for your feedback. In the future, it would be more efficient to e-mail these to vcfeast@vcfed.org instead of the public discussion list. On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM bernieS via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Thanks to everyone (too many to name!) for another excellent VCF East. The talks, exhibits, management, and so much more were great. I have some suggestions:
Food: Having a decent onsite food vendor with a variety of edibles for everyone was well-received by many, and it kept people from leaving the event for food. Their prices were kinda high, but I doubt we could do much better. More vegetarian food options (veggie hoagies, veggie burgers?) would be welcome.
It took five years to convince a food truck to be there. We now have the numbers to convince them. We kept the menu options limited so that they would reduce waiting time which was the biggest complaint last year. The prices are reasonable for a food truck and in fact they are lower from their original quote that they gave us. The best thing was that they took care of everything and we were not involved other than turning on fridge, freezer, setting up tables.
Consignment: Despite some bugs in the Nexopos label-printing system (which I reported last week; maybe they can be fixed for next year)
We will work on bug fixes.
my overall impression is the larger space with lots of tables and shelves was way better than before. The space was filled with people and tons of vintage equipment! Next year having even more tables and shelving units would be prudent, because word will spread and more
We had more tables that we could have used and un-built shelving, but didn't want to make the space too crowded.
sellers and buyers will come next year. Allowing everyone to look up what's for sale in Nexopos would be nice, so it would be more like an Easter egg hunt.
We are working on this.
Preventing items from 'walking away' without being paid for is
We will improve security next year.
I think it would be good to have a 'public' computer there running
I agree.
Sellers: Not everyone can come to VCF multiple days. I could only
A payout time on Saturday is possible. We will discuss it in our postmortem. Post event survey is coming soon! Jeff Brace