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Message:: [QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 3022083, member: 59677"]I agree that wholesale dealers should mark themselves, "To the trade Only" or some such.  Usually it's a good clue when there is nothing being displayed, but a sign is appropriate The rest of your rant? It's legit, but it's also silly because it's just caning a deceased equine. Pretty much everything has been tried to get dealers to stay for the entire show. Fines. Discounts. Preferred table selection at the next show. Separate sections so you can draw a curtain and cut off part of the room. Nothing works. PO enough dealers and nobody comes back and the show dies. But you miss the point as to the audience that the ANA is serving. This is not a local 20 table show aimed at retail buyers. 1300 or 1500 people paid their $8.  We'll know when we see the attendance numbers in a couple weeks. Top end, that's maybe $12,000 in revenue. Another 2,000 (including a lot of dealers) got in free as ANA members. 200+ dealers paid $1,000 / table. That's $200,000 in revenue. Who is the audience? You also miss that many dealers are part-time and have to be back on Monday morning to go to work. Even full time dealers have time constraints that don't let them stay to Sunday... I talked with one dealer who had an 800 mile trip home to restock and run some laundry and needing to be on the road Tuesday morning for a 1,000 mile trip to the next weekend's show.[/QUOTE]