Zrealm

The weirdest thing I've ever had happen to me personally was at a show a few years ago. For some reason (which I can't recall) I was annoyed with the show management, and was waiting to talk to the convention chair, when the head of operations walked up and told me that I looked stressed it and then offered me poppers in an attempt to fix the situation.

The weirdest thing that happened at a show I was at, which I only caught a bit of, involved about 150 teenage girls dressed up as Nazis (well, the Germany character from Hetalia) gathering on the lawn outside a church on Easter Sunday for a photo shoot...

In some ways they're not all that different - we set up, we sell things, we leave :) Furries tend to be a bit older than anime con attendees and also friendlier. Their vendor room does have somewhat of a higher undercurrent of adult material (though it's all well shielded from minors)

No, but I've had plenty of customers try (unsuccessfully) to trade sexual favors for product...

Best convention is probably PAX - there's something unique and happy about the PAX culture that is not replicated anywhere else. For us the worst are steampunk events - while there's a lot of overlap between every genre and gaming, steampunk is so much about the look (and people buying things to develop their steampunk look) that it's hard for other vendors to do decently at them.

Honestly, a lot of it is just by the numbers - bigger shows and fewer vendors both mean a show will do better for us. We do a lot of trial and error though, we've definitely lost bucket loads of money on events I've miscalled.

I prefer the thrill of larger conventions - I love the never ending masses of people. Smaller conventions can get kind of boring when we're spending 10 hours behind a table with limited waves of customers.