seems to me that if the ID thing is so important that you should make it big and well known? Make a list of things you 'MUST' have and make a huge point of it? Just a suggestion. I didn't find out about ID until um...quite literally, today. If I'd known just a month earlier I would have had enough time to call the DMV, stand in line, and get a valid state identification. It takes six weeks to process just about everything I need that I only found out about so recently.Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter since no one minds that just assuming 10 percent of people don't have proper ID,it'll take 10hrs.
To me, the identification should have been a main main MAIN piece of information if its going to have that big of an impact, maybe even bigger then the fact that you have to register. I feel like it wasn't advertised at all, and now I'm going to get spit at by some volunteer snob at the registration line after I spent hundreds of dollars on trans,hotel,cosplay,came halfway across the country and spent 3-4 hours in line? on top of that, i'm taking a GAMBLE here. who knows if i'll even enjoy the convention, and as someone else stated before, I won't get my money back either way. I don't want a disrespectful attitude from someone who simply decided to volunteer and then decided it wasn't as fun as they thought it would be.Don't get me wrong, Its an honorable thing to be volunteering for something as huge as this and i give all the kudos in the world to you, but really its not acceptable for the volunteer, in other words, someone who doesn't even have to be THERE, to treat a paying customer like crap.
"but the fact of the matter remains (and will probably still remain years from now) that a majority of the teenagers attending this convention will not have a state ID or drivers license, nor will they feel the need to until it's time for them to get a job."
I would have gotten a state ID if I knew about it. teenagers will 'feel the need' if its practically required upon registration to fanime. All a person has to do to get a state ID is 24 dollars, birth cert,soc security, and 6 weeks to get it processed. if people were informed that it was mandatory, i'm sure it would barely be an issue. I just don't understand why it wasn't advertised more. make a button in the main page that says ' MUST BRING' or something like that. for example, you advertise the registration and the hotel beautifully, theres a main button and whoever came up with the idea for the hotels is genius but My God, I can't believe I didn't know about ID. I KNOW you guys don't advertise that because i don't see why else it would be a problem. If you guys KNOW that a huge percentage of your customers are teenagers with "no need" to have a goverment ID, then thats all the more reason to advertise it to the best of your ability.
To me, the identification should have been a main main MAIN piece of information if its going to have that big of an impact, maybe even bigger then the fact that you have to register. I feel like it wasn't advertised at all, and now I'm going to get spit at by some volunteer snob at the registration line after I spent hundreds of dollars on trans,hotel,cosplay,came halfway across the country and spent 3-4 hours in line? on top of that, i'm taking a GAMBLE here. who knows if i'll even enjoy the convention, and as someone else stated before, I won't get my money back either way. I don't want a disrespectful attitude from someone who simply decided to volunteer and then decided it wasn't as fun as they thought it would be.Don't get me wrong, Its an honorable thing to be volunteering for something as huge as this and i give all the kudos in the world to you, but really its not acceptable for the volunteer, in other words, someone who doesn't even have to be THERE, to treat a paying customer like crap.
"but the fact of the matter remains (and will probably still remain years from now) that a majority of the teenagers attending this convention will not have a state ID or drivers license, nor will they feel the need to until it's time for them to get a job."
I would have gotten a state ID if I knew about it. teenagers will 'feel the need' if its practically required upon registration to fanime. All a person has to do to get a state ID is 24 dollars, birth cert,soc security, and 6 weeks to get it processed. if people were informed that it was mandatory, i'm sure it would barely be an issue. I just don't understand why it wasn't advertised more. make a button in the main page that says ' MUST BRING' or something like that. for example, you advertise the registration and the hotel beautifully, theres a main button and whoever came up with the idea for the hotels is genius but My God, I can't believe I didn't know about ID. I KNOW you guys don't advertise that because i don't see why else it would be a problem. If you guys KNOW that a huge percentage of your customers are teenagers with "no need" to have a goverment ID, then thats all the more reason to advertise it to the best of your ability.