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Pizza Hardman Darren Atwater responded to a piece of spam email and ordered a ticket legitimately to attend Jim Mellon's minor trade show in islington today. The show claimed that 10,000 tickets had been booked although capacity in the rooms booked is sub 3,000. Whatever. Atwater attended this morning and saw plenty of empty space. He estimates that, including suits manning stands, there were perhaps 2,000 in the hall. Again, whatever.
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wildrides
You can lead a Canadian to water but you cant make him drink because he’s already at water . So just throw him out instead .
I expect the exhibitors will be asking “water” Mellon for their pitch fees back judging by the lack of bodies at stands .
ronconomics
There was loads of documentary evidence of the large gathering i attended at this well attended massive venue. Why did you choose to show the sparse area at that time? It was standing room only at times and a celebration of private investing . As a reader of your emailed blog I don’t see what you gain from this. I don’t expect this post to be printed.
Tom Winnifrith
Ronnie
We merely make the point that in a hall that holds sub 3,000 claims made to exhibitors who paid for stands and to the general public that 10,000 tickets had been sold perhaps bear scrutiny.
We have seen photos, taken from angles we would suspect, ie floor level back of main arena, not top down which show more folks there. But not 10,000.
Best wishes from someone who would not frogmarch anyone anywhere nor bar free speech
T
ronconomics
Ok. I didn’t pay for my ticket. I suspect many others didn’t. Maybe there is a confusion between numbers registered to attend when it’s easy to accept a free invitation and those actually showing up..but a claim is a claim.
TW note: It claimed to have sold 10k tickets, a room holding less than 3k clearly had a lot of empty space. Having organised NINE shows at that venue I know how it works. We have subjected a claim made to forensic scrutiny & Mellon et al evict poor Darren to hide the truth and you condemn us? You poor man