Just sent this to someone else:Charlie White wrote:I wonder what the financial impact would be if the Lit Meet moved
out of California. No sales taxes from the activity at the meet, no
hotel/motel revenue and room taxes from all those attendees who
no longer attend, no restaurant and bar income for the hotels and
related businesses, no gasoline sales from all those who drive to the
lit meet, no airline fare income from those who fly in to LA for the meet,
and [...]
CW
[T]he laugher here is that unless the fees and taxes are confiscatory, I probably pay more in (LA) hotel, gas, sales and restaurant taxes than they'd ever get from my sales. And that's one person (who is *paying* the new fees).
The fact is, I've never been able to define the actual financial benefit of being there, and it is not a trivial cost by the time I count all the expenses, so there is no compelling reason to attend.
If suffcient other vendors find that to be true, I hope the LA tax-man has foot bandaids; falling vendor numbers will yield falling attendance, meaning falling revenue.
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We'll see, but I'm quite serious; Pre Mat won't be there if I have to pass on taxes and fees for a morning's sales to all the other customers.