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[Civic Auditorium]

The check-in information on step 7 says that check-in is at the staff table at the entrance to the Civic Auditorium. It should be South Hall, right?

Staff selling at Swapmeet:
I will get clarification on if this is something that we just don't allow or if we need to do staff registration differently.  I'm going to have to find this out from people higher up than me, if it was up to me though, I would just require a "Staff: Yes/No" field be in the sign-up process.  Unless you're Swapmeet Staff... then you're MY minions and no fun for you!

I've been on staff for the past 4 years, and I've also participated in swap meet 3 of the 4 years. I signed up just like everyone else did, waited for online pre-registration to go up, waited in line for pre-reg check-in. I never had a problem before, I think I might have had to get my div/dept head to okay my participation though? (My memory's a little hazy, so I can't quite remember on this particular detail.) The swap meet staff also check my badge and form, so if there was a problem with me participating as a swap meet seller, they would have let me know at that time.

In past years, I have always brought some extra plastic bags to hand out to buyers so that they have something to carry the stuff they buy from me with, but a friend just pointed out to me that San Jose has had a bag ban in effect since the beginning of this year. Would that be something to make the swap meet attendees aware of or are we expecting them to know about the ban already?

Card for ALL doujinshi. Put the clearly "hentai" or uber-yaoi (just by looking at the covers) in one box that has a lid, and put the other in a box that gets carded just by route but doesn't need to be "hidden".

Thanks :)

Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!  :D

First off, Angel has the final word, but I would say better safe than sorry. What sort of "sexual interaction of varying degrees" are we talking about? Are we talking a range between groping and intercourse, or the range meaning different positions? I think that you should have a good idea of what is ok to sell to minors and what should be set aside in a covered, 18+ only box. If you're not sure, always err on the side of conservatism. Better to deny a sale to a minor and be safe at the end of the day then get busted for pawning off softcore (or not so softcore) porn to a minor.

The latter, as in range between groping and intercourse. I do have a good idea of what's for who, but I'd rather know what the rules are when it comes to Swap Meet. I don't mind putting it in the 18+ only box though, to be safe.

I have a box of doujinshi that I'm preparing for Swap Meet with labels.

On the labels, I have:

• Series Name
• Serious/Gag/Normal/Shounen or Shoujo Ai/Yaoi/R18 (Categories circled as necessary)
• Price

The ones that are already clearly marked R18 or Adult Only on the doujinshi themselves, those are the ones I'm setting aside in the Adults Only box.
However, I've marked the labels of the ones that I feel are somewhere like PG13~PG15 as Yaoi. Do those also need to be put into the Adults Only box?
They do have some sexual interaction of varying degrees, but nothing explicit like the R18/Adult Only ones.

What would be a good standard to go by?