Baracus800

Jason, do you think EC2 was unpleasantly and dangerously overcrowded on Saturday? Do you think that there was a fair, regulated, easy to understand queuing system out the front of the buildings?

I have given SM an awful lot of my money over the years, going back to meeting Lou Ferrigno at CM3. I don't post on any internet forum at all. I don't have The Twitter. I don't have The Facebooks. On the whole I do not see the point of sharing everything with everyone. However, this weekend's disgraceful display by SM has forced me to change a personal policy. I genuinely think it needs to be said how badly managed, with little to no regard to the public's enjoyment and most importantly safety, this event was. Also reading through these posts it also sounds very much like a nice man in his 90s was rinsed out for as much profit as they conceived possible ahead of time, without much thought to how this would actually play out in reality. The fact that SM carried on selling tickets on the door all the way through till very late afternoon on Saturday is simply irresponsible. And whilst of course it's great that people are so keen into this nerd culture we all love, that they are willing to volunteer, that doesn't help the thousands of people who are looking for someone with some actual knowledge passed down from those in charge, to tell them where the back of a queue is. I saw someone mention in an earlier posting that they saw Jason out the front on Saturday telling people where to go. Well I saw him too in his black flowery shirt. He was stood by the entrance waving in the people at the front of the queue through the door. He should have been down at Earls Court tube saying, 'sorry we're full'. Unfortunately he wasn't still in the same position when I eventually snaked back up from Brompton Road tube (before going on back round the building obviously), to see the poor girl get clipped by the idiot driving the white van, who'd got frustrated that we were being forced to queue across the car park ramp.

I find these SM apologists rather confusing. People were treated shockingly yesterday. Queueing with no organisation and no information, with realistically no chance of getting in, is simply not right. It is no way to run an event. And then, for those who got in, to find it dangerously overcrowded and unventilated, is again simply not right or fair. The fault of all the problems lie clearly at the feet of SM management. They should have paid and trained many, many more staff. They are all too willing to invent countless different hierarchical tickets and wristbands in an effort to take as much money off of us nerds as possible, without ever seemingly thinking about logistics and customer experience. For people on here to say to those with entirely legitimate complaints, that they should have brought a bottle of water with them or put some suncream on, is frankly disrespectful.