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From FiddlerOnTheRoof: My only complaint is that I felt there was too many dive resort booths and a few non scuba related booths... They had solar panels for the home and a few booths that had nothing to do with scuba... What’s the deal with that?? I would like to see more scuba equipment not solar panels or China Ballet.
A single booth is $1475., those end-caps and doubles are more plus hotel for three days so small shops can’t afford them and to prevent bidding wars shops can’t display prices. You have to ask for the price.
The resorts and liveaboards do better so there are more of them. Equipment manufactures show the new gear but don’t sell. The clubs in the 100 isle pay a lot less but provide the volunteers that make the show work.
There is a cut off date for reserving a booth for the next show. After that it’s open to non dive related, some divers will tell you those TIMMS are dive related after getting beat up on deck, I have one. The China Ballet has been coming 3 years and it’s taken that long to train them to stay in their booth, not block the isle. This was the first time Power Windows and the Solar Panels got in. I would rather see the empty booths opened to local environmental groups to get their message out but the non dive related help pay the rent.
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