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I was registering the other day for the surfaces show, spent a lot of time deciding whether or not to go to the conferences on thursday, full pass, two day pass or friday pass. Finially decided that for the $800, we could buy a lot of tooling instead. Being charged more cause I don’t belong to issfa was another bone that stuck in my throut. Decided just to attend the trade show and spend the other two days on the beach.
KBIS is pricey too, but half the price of surfaces, except for the nkba courses which are $380 each. You do get professional credit toward the CKBD which helps a bit. Problem is, unlike the Surfaces classes, most of the nkba classes seem to be geared toward beginning desgin students or are things like lighting or design courses for things that people in oklahoma wouldn’t pay hard earned money for. Oh, to live on one of the ltwo left coasts………
Coverings, on the other hand, is a deal. The whole darned thing is free, classes, trade show, everything. Many of the same class topics that the surfaces show will have. Something like 75 free classes, many covering countertops, marketing, osha, business, sadly no solid surface. Attendence last year was 33,000, ten times what surfaces drew, if I remember correctly.
Why such a difference in costs?
Al,
“One of the two left coasts”
Heh – good one.
Signed,
Tom (On the ‘right’ of the the two left coasts) M.
And Dave on the west coast of the east coast of the USA…Florida
BTW Al, I’m having a class at Fridays on…ahhh…Friday. Admission is one beer and the topics will be:
“Why I absolutely despise Black & Decker”
“How you to can pay $30.00 more for the same router but”.
“Scotch-Brite vs Buff-N-Blend”
“The art of de-meating a chicken wing in under 7 seconds”.
See ya there !
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