NO DRINKS ON THE TABLE PLEASE!!!

[Tenebrini]

Last night Nate and I were selling these posters at the show:
http://www.gigposters.com/posters.php?poster=18689

We had three of them laid out on the table and one hanging behind us.

A drunken ass hole decided he wanted to come talk to us and in the process spilled is boozy drink all over two of the the prints. He "had no money" to pay for them. (drank it all)

Which raises the question:

At a show, how do you display your work to prevent this kind of shit?
Was this blatant stupidity on my part?

I didn't jump over the table and beat his ass, but while driving home with two drying prints I was wishing I had. On the bright side, it was a clear beverage and dried virtually undetectable.

After people watching all night I also decided that I'm glad my hippy days are far behind me.

[philaarts.com]

reggae shows are smelly.

i have been offered to do merch and take 100% of whatever i sell and i dont do it.

[Brute666]

I keep the posters hanging behind us with a light pointed at them. I also use an example book (much like what we used for Flatstock) out front for people to flip through.
We're lucky that the club has a small cubicle space that was built for selling snacks and cigarettes but nobody at the club would keep it stocked so it became unused for months. When we suggested selling posters at the club the owner jumped at the chance to put someone in the booth so she could make some money from it. Now we have a pretty nifty little set-up where everything is displayed in the light and we're not in the way of anybody trying to see the band. We put out all our magnets in the glass case that used to hold the candy. Works great!

[Grzeca]

"oops, im sorry" he says as he spills his drink/knocks over his beer/ dumps ashes from his cigarette on the poster table...
"me too" you say, as you hold his hand down on the table with your kung fu grip and Nate menacingly waves the handy scimitar over his wrist...


works every time.

[robschwager]

the largest size Maglite to the side of the head works wonders in these type of situations.

[Dan Apparatus]

Man, this has never happened to us but it's only a matter of time before it does. We kind of do what you do and just leave a couple out and keep the rest in a box.

Fucking drunks.

I guess if you wanted you could just keep one out and whenever anyone wants to buy one you can just pull another one out of the box.

How did getting approval to sell go for you last night anyway?

Dan

[Tenebrini]

Man, this has never happened to us but it's only a matter of time before it does. We kind of do what you do and just leave a couple out and keep the rest in a box.

Fucking drunks.

I guess if you wanted you could just keep one out and whenever anyone wants to buy one you can just pull another one out of the box.

How did getting approval to sell go for you last night anyway?

Dan

Yeah, we had three fanned out nicely on the table with a bunch of free stickers and the rest of the prints safe behind us. Getting approval went fine although when I got there the tour manager and the band was not around so the 1st Ave. Stage Manager (white guy with massive dreads) said go ahead and set up. Then when the band's merch guy set up he was cool with it and I gave him a stack of prints to give to the band and he was pleased. It was a good show and we sold a few prints, it just ended on that sour note.

The guy was too drunk to even realize what an ass he was and his drunk wife(?) was so out of it that she just kept talking away as if nothing had happened.

Then right as I walked out side I narrowly missed getting vomitted on by another drunken hippie. He was stumbling down First Ave. along side the building litterally projectile vomiting left and right. He had chunks of puke in his long dreads that I'm sure he won't be washing out.

[Dusty!]

we've had motorcycle helmets placed on top of our posters... the worst though is sweaty locust kids.... dude you are SWEATING ON THE POSTER.

[Tenebrini]

The Wailers' merch guy had a beer dumped all over his stickers and hemp bracelets so we were not alone...

[lil_tuffy]

Usually I put a crappy one on the table, a mis-reg or just a bad print and take a Sir-MarksALot to it and write witty things like, 'THey're only five bucks! buy two, they're cheap, punk"

The worst I ever had happen was I had my poster leaning against a wall behind me and someone threw a drink and hit the poster square on. Luckily they were still wrapped in butcher paper so I only lost one poster.