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I messed up and registered 40 mins late, i got Wed 17th at 1pm :(

Hey i JUST got an email saying i was moved off the waitlist! I'm now in a 2 bed room at hilton xOX So even tho i missed those openings (wtf?) i still got off the waitlist and i'm a 12pm 25th slot

Hmm this raises more questions for me.  I was also a 12pm 25th slot, got on the waitlist right away, and yet the email that I got from from Fanime booking earlier today said I am still halfway down a waitlist of 470+ people.

Well, in any case, congrats! At least the waitlist is working out for someone!

It probably depends on your exact request and such?  I know people who are just adding extra days got theirs first, but i was moving from 1 bed room in westin to hilton/sheraton/hyatt. It might be different if you were moving from fairmont or a different room configuration, etc

Hey i JUST got an email saying i was moved off the waitlist! I'm now in a 2 bed room at hilton xOX So even tho i missed those openings (wtf?) i still got off the waitlist and i'm a 12pm 25th slot

I was only able to obtain a room at the Double Tree during my hotel reservation time-slot, and after getting that room I called in and put myself on the wait list for Marriot, Fairmont, and the Westin. I do check the hotel reservation site periodically ever since they added more hotels to the list.  Earlier today I saw that the Marriot had the twin double beds on the housing site as available, so I attempted to reserve through the housing site. It didn't work because my convention ID, needed for reserving the room, already had a reservation with the Double Tree. I called the Fanime hosuing number, requested to switch my rooms.  Person on the phone asked for my convention ID and saw that I had a reservation with the Double Tree and saw that I was on the hotel wait list.  Person told me that he would take me off the wait list, and swapped the hotel.  I got a confirmation email for the Marriot.  I called up some friends that I know and told them about the $135/Night Marriot rooms, and after about an hour the room was no longer available on the housing site.

ARE YOU FRAKING KIDDING.

Yea that's hella unfair wtf? Why are they doing that? And obviously no staff is going to answer or help ~_~ I'm calling them right now so they know about this incase this is just made up to mess with us

Edit: They couldn't find any record of any hotel rooms going up. They said they were going to look into it and i told them they could find the post here but we'll see. If kameifan5x is just trolling hope it gets quashed.

If it helps any, my waitlist confirmation e-mail was sent to me at a really weird time, like 11pm PST. I can understand a delay in said e-mail confirmations, but still~ :v

Unfortunately your waitlist movement is different from artists. You're just trying to get more days at the hotel  you're in already. All the artists were in 3pm block and are in airport hotels trying to get to the closer ones. That's why I find it weird that someone claims that 2 bdrooms opened at the marriot. I'm trying to switch into a 2bdrm at the marriot, shouldn't wait list get priority?

Room at the San Jose Marriott for 2 double beds opened up. Go grab them before they are out.

Do you mean full price rooms or on the block. Why would they go up for the block, people like me are on the waitlist for those rooms..

With no movement still here.

No movement here.. :) I don't see anyone else moving either so the hopefullness of friday cancellations being processed today was that just.. hopefullness. Blegh. Good job screwing over your artists in some new way, fanime lol.

@Nina: to be honest i have no idea why you are worried. If they are loud and disruptful ANY hotel would kick them out if they were reported once or twice, or they would voluntarily move you. No one gets stuck next to a crap room all weekend unless they for some reason do not report it.

My time slot was the 25th at 12pm and I got my waitlist confirmation by 1pm, haven't heard back yet though.

same slot and i think i got on the waitlist even earlier (like immediately after picking) but no movement for me either :/

I hope the email encourages people to drop cancel! Still no movement for me  :'( (Or other artists as far as I know)

All the 2 bed rooms for the hotels closer to the con (i.e. not airport) are gone now, and there are barely any king rooms left even. Artists couldn't buy tickets till they were accepted in to the alley, and that puts our registration blocks at 3pm today, so fanime is making us shuttle or uber with our items  :-\ this is the opposite of better. Last year i found out about registration late and i still got a 2 bed at marriot, this time there's no chance.

OH that makes sense!

I also just got of the waitlist JUST NOW for that extra day, probably because of those people!

Yay, thanks for hanging around here guys :)

How come rooms open up instead of going to the next person on the waitlist?

I added myself to the waitlist when i realized, but it was in feb  :'(

I did see they had a room but not double beds (4 people cry lol)! I booked the king room though just in case. Ah well, i guess i'll panic closer to april 20th.

I originally booked my rooms at the Marriot in November when they opened,but I forgot Fanime was a 4 day convention and only booked till Sunday (Booked fri-sun). I didn't realize my mistake till February and added to the waitlist to get that one night. Is it easier for me to get that one night that is for someone looking for the whole weekend or does the hotel wait until entire blocks of days open up for the next person on the list before giving rooms/nights away?

Is it basically impossible to get that one night even if i wait past April 25th? I don't want to invite people into my room if i can't cover them the whole time.

I would love to see what OP thinks is considered a fair price for prints/commissions. I do 8+ cons a year and fanime had some of the cheapest prints i've seen in a while, which was actually kind of depressing :P

It's all well and good to whine about prices, but if you think you should be able to buy things for $5, I don't think the artists want you back anyway.

If you can't find a good local place, there are a few online places. I find online places tend to be more competitive in pricing at larger quantities, and most artists tend to make big orders (since you'll probably want 5+ copies of each print if you're doing more than one con).

I've used costco, fireball printing and cat print in the past. Costco is way too expensive for anything larger than 5x7 prints, since they use photo paper it's like instantly more expensive ($1.50 for 8x12, $3 for 12x18). fireball i used last year and they were pretty good, but recently i've been hearing horror stories about them sending prints with bad colors or poor cutting and not offering a reprint or a refund >_<, and i didn't want to risk that this year so i went with http://www.catprint.com which gets recommended a lot on the con circuit. Summary, they're a bit pricier than fireball, but their colors and coating are way nicer? And no where near as pricy as costco hahaha. And i've never heard of anyone having problems with them, so less risky IMO.

Both offer free hard proofs to make sure they look right, you'll want to start sending prints about 2 weeks or earlier before your con date to make sure you get any issues hammered out.

No you haven't missed it yet. Last year AA registration did not go up until the end of March. Hopefully we will get it up sooner, but everything is super up in the air. Keep an eye out and we'll try to get the info out as best as possible....look for the: Fanime website, Fanime forums, Facebook, and Twitter.

Huh actually according to my post history they were up at least before feb 7th, because i posted about not getting a final confirmation. IIRC they were up and the end of January.

I understand that there has been some changes going on, but i just wanted to say for the record is all. I hope everything gets worked out sooner so we can make our plans :(

I got them printed from overnightprints, but like i said they messed up cutting them.. and the first reprints were the wrong colors, i'm waiting for the 3rd batch right now to write a proper review of them XD

EDIT: I got the reprints today and wrote about my expereince with Overnight Prints heeere.

DAYUM. Those look incredible, and they were so cheap!!! They are like half the cost of business cards from Vistaprint. Even with all the grief they gave you, I think those guys are totally worth it.

Haha yea like i said in the review if you have time and don't mind dealing with customer service (They were always polite via e-mail) it's not bad at all especially for the price. Some people don't like dealing with incompetence or don't have the time though XD. I hope 500 + 250 weird ones is enough this summer

Mine got misprinted, but they should look like this:


The company cut the card too close at the bottom so i'm waiting for reprints wooh.. but you can see the type of info i put down, and how i resolved pen name vs real name. (although it's even more annoying for me cause i have TWO internet aliases now ~_~)

Those look fantastic. Where did you order them from?

I got them printed from overnightprints, but like i said they messed up cutting them.. and the first reprints were the wrong colors, i'm waiting for the 3rd batch right now to write a proper review of them XD

EDIT: I got the reprints today and wrote about my expereince with Overnight Prints heeere.

Mine got misprinted, but they should look like this:


The company cut the card too close at the bottom so i'm waiting for reprints wooh.. but you can see the type of info i put down, and how i resolved pen name vs real name. (although it's even more annoying for me cause i have TWO internet aliases now ~_~)