/poner/ - Ponies

And just to further validate that point, 1 month before registration even BEGAN, approximately 250 con attendees already booked their room (am one of them).

>>8390
Does anyone know what approx. percentage of the charity dinner actually goes to the charity?

>>8683
If an answer is forthcoming, it will be immediately shared, because I also want to know

>>8680
As someone who had to fight with the F5 key to get a Mare Enthusiast badge, I distinctly remember the Mare Schizo taking a few days to sell (not surprising considering the 15.5K price tag)

>>8694
I don't know what to tell you then. I would have registered a higher tier if I could have, and when I went to register "Enjoyer" was the only one NOT sold out.

>>8683
Direct from Snowpity:
>First two years, 100% went to charity
>This year, we're aiming at $10-15 per plate

>There's a big reason for this: This is the first year we don't have a F&B minimum with the hotel, so while first two years dinner was a sunk cost to hold the con, this year it's 100% cost

>he's STILL on about the fucking dinner
That's $75-80 for spaghetti. Are you kidding me?

>>5202
Once you're approved, you'll be invited to a dicksword with the other vendors, could be a good opportunity to ask for participants
Then just fill out a panel app

>>5683
Heard a rumor it might be donated into the auction at MF

>>8300
That'd be cool if it can be pulled off, would love to see it happen

>>8723
what are we supposed to do without dicksword? email marefair?

>>8713
so 10-20% or so for each dinner sold goes to charity?

>>8724
Nah, you'll have to figure out and reach out to each vendor individually, perhaps stalk their social media or look in store sites for emails
Or ask the vendor lead if he'd be willing to write a one time email to all vendors
But that shit could be annoying to some vendors, so not sure what they'd say

>>5202
I didn't know Gary will be there, but yes, now that you mention it. Batfang and Vultrex were on my spaghetti-list

>>8725
>$9-14 goes to horses
Ostensibly, yes. I can get MUCH better margins with ease.

Lets put it differently.
If you were offered a plate of spaghetti for $75, would you?

>>8731
>$75 spaghetti
No, of course you wouldn't. With a little planning, you can have all-you-can-eat CRAB for $30, also for charity. No, the spaghetti is NOT justified, die in a fire you jewish-ass hotel caterers.

>>8713
>F&B minimum
Than sell more tendies dinner tickets, this will lead to more faces needing to be fed and in turn more money spent for food by Snowpity and in turn meeting the minimum requirements.
Unless the hotel is expecting a 2000+ attendees, if this is the case, than they can eat a bag of dicks.

>>8824
Pardon me for engaging a bit of schizo, but you can easily reach through the ether to grasp the motivation; the hotel is adjacent to a convention center, their MO is to fleece the customer for all they can, banking (literally) on deep pockets and not alot of questions asked. I'm sure it works, but not this time.

>>8382
>>8390
They charge $35 the first year. Where on earth did you get $109 from?

>>8824
>F&B minimum
>Than sell more tendies dinner tickets, this will lead to more faces needing to be fed and in turn more money spent for food by Snowpity and in turn meeting the minimum requirements.
Nono, re-read it. IT says previous years there HAS been an F&B minimum, but this year there ISN'T, it's a flat rate per head.
Which is where I draw umbrage from. It doesn't matter how many tickets are sold, Fallen Oak only gets $10-15 per head. Just because it's a "charity" dinner and "special occasion" is how the hotel can get away with that kind of shit.

Oh, I'm gonna be on about this for a while. I've been crunching the numbers. Here's the facts.
At scale, a real cost breakdown looks like:
Pasta: $0.40–$0.70 per person

Sauce (canned passata + aromatics): $1–2 per person tops

Breaded chicken: $2–3 per person, if you're being generous

Bread: Pennies, unless they’re gilding it with saffron (they’re not)

Staff time: already budgeted into hotel banquet overhead

Overhead: already built into the contract (electricity, room, gear, etc.)

They’re charging charity donors $75 for something that costs them less than $10–12 per head, even with markup, waste, spoilage, and labor accounted for.

>>8976
>previous years there HAS been an F&B minimum, but this year there ISN'T
Oh, I see, in that case fuck the fancy dinner style set up, Mare Fair should just rent out a day at some mom-n-pop burger joint restaurant that's within 15m driving distance and let people enjoy meal together without wasting it on the "presentation".
Fuck hotel and fuck "we did it last year so it's tradition now", I would be equally happy with some basic open air grill and hotdogs if it meant it kept the charity or convention afload, but seeing them wanting to piss away the money just for the sake of it is just annoying.

>>9035
>rent out a day at some mom-n-pop burger joint restaurant
>equally happy with some basic open air grill and hotdogs if it meant it kept the charity or convention afloat
EXACTLY

>>9035
I'm with you there except for
>drive
Most people are flying in, transportation is tough even if there's shuttles and shit. The biggest benefit of the hotel dinner is that it's right there and there's always an open bar. Also to be clear the hotel charity dinners, as with most catered events like this, are all-you-can-eat (plus the open bar), not just one plate of spaghetti and tendies; I'm afraid your number autism is probably rather off the mark, though it's safe to assume it's a rip-off either way.

>>9040
>number autism
His might be, but mine isn't.
>transportation
There's a lake-side RIGHT THERE, it doesn't have to be complicated. Just a bunch of horsefuckers deciding to occupy this area of the beach.
And this is just brainstorming, this is without planning.

>>9035
Let's go this route. $20 at a mom-and-pops is gonna get you well fed, and $30 is gonna get you stuffed. That leaves $60-70 to the charity.
I can break down what the hotel is trying to do, beyond what I have so far, but the end result is the same: a curious fixation with small hats.

>>9047
>let's go this route
Hypothetically speaking, I'm just a loud-mouthed asshole with zero sayon anything.

Technically, this is all in support of the buffet, which was $40/head. Literally, that's the most obvious cost-effective option

marefair will be lit this year

Making Anon mares for Mare Fair.
https://cytu.be/r/ponyplushplace

Ran out of green....
Working on purple now.
https://cytu.be/r/ponyplushplace

>>9898
>>9989
Awesome.

>>9989
Got more green.
https://cytu.be/r/ponyplushplace

>>10134
This is so cool.

>>10134
Thanks for the stream poner.

>>10134
https://cytu.be/r/ponyplushplace
ear time

why do people go to cons? Isn't everyone there fat?
>80 dollars for spaghetti
lol

>>10175
I missed this post. On my way.

>>10177
How much ?

>>10181
>>10177
https://marefair.org/news/spaghetti-and-tendie-dinner/
apparently they rented a whole restaurant for several hours
$40 with $10 going to horses
this seems much more reasonable to me.

>>10182
>$10 going to horses
Yay.

Mare Fair merch progress
Super busy doing last minute things and keeping normal job going. Barely have time to even shower.

>>10718
>Filly trapped in a soap well
Savage.

What is going on near Chicago?

>>10720
Niggers terrorizing the communities.

>>10718
Looks epic friend. I love the holder designs!

Oh shit lads, its happening in less than a week.

I'm around, hanging out in the lobby at the moment. Cellphone seems to not want to use the SIM card, so I effectively have no communication other than my laptop now

Mares!

>>4922
Nigger

Forgot pic