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Date Posted: 16:59:51 04/11/01 Wed
Author: Saint Faucet
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 32.100.150.56
Subject: Access
In reply to: Achilles 's message, "E3." on 14:09:20 04/11/01 Wed

How do you get a pass to E3? There are several ways:

1) Your company is going to be at the show with their own booth. Each booth comes with a certain number of passes to the show that is dependent upon the size of the booth's floor. I got in last year for free because I had to work at my company's booth in Kentia Hall (aka a converted parking lot masquerading as a convention hall).

2) You work for an electronics retailer/distributor. This option grants free passage to the show so long as you work for a retail company (Electronics Boutique as an example) and can get your application in before the free cut-off date (which this year was April 7th).

3) You're a member of the press. Usually companies will fall all over themselves attempting to gain some leverage with the press. As such, they'll give out free passes to anyone from a respectable/known news site/magazine.

4) You know someone who works for a company with extra passes to burn. (Don't ask me this year. I was forced to use option number 2 to get into the show. My roommates aren't happy with me for failing to get them passes.)

4) You're over 18 and have money to burn. E3 may be a trade show that is supposed to be for 'industry only' types, but don't let that supposed roadblock stop you from trying to get in. The E3 commission almost never follows up on applications to the show, so you could probably forge a fake company/job title and get away with it. Applications can be found at http://www.e3expo.com/. The typical cost of admission is about $200 for the exhibits and keynote speeches (which honestly is all the stuff you'll care about). If you want to actually sit in on the various conferences (which would probably be cool, but not really necessary), it'll cost you a couple of hundred dollars more.

Hope that answers your question.

- Aaron (15 or so minutes to go)

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