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a growing trend
is it just me, or are book signings becoming worse and worse...
tonight, me and my girlfriend went to a Randy Couture signing at the virgin megastore. the line was embarrassingly short, like less than 30 people anyway, but we get to the front and there was a person taking the books away from us to put the right page on, and then telling us that we couldn't get anything else signed other than the book.. the guy was scheduled for a 2 hour appearance and he didn't even need to be there for over a half an hour. me and my girlfriend only had 2 photos each on top of the book. that's not too much (i know that sometimes it is, but there were less than 30 people there..) the lady said "the publisher doesn't want him signing anything else, sorry." if it wasn't for randy guaranteeing that if i send the stuff to his gym, i'd have been ****ed... i'm still of the whole "there was no one there" we were literally last in line at 30 (and i'm really not sure about that one either, i think it was less than that). just like the oscar de la hoya signings where they had a LIST of what you could and couldn't do..1) no photos of oscar, 2) nothing other than the book etc...we had to get him in the parking lot after the signings. and a tito ortiz signing where the ladies were saying no memorabilia and then tito said it was fine, and they gave tito grief about signing memorabilia (there was no one in his lines either).. so what is up with this, with the exception of oscar (who had huge lines) these people should be happy to sign other stuff...do these people really need to bow down to the publisher and not sign anything else? i already ante'd up the money for the books (and in most cases more than one, i have no problem with the whole "i buy your book, you sign my stuff," rule.) but now they are taking away that one WITH NO ONE IN YOUR LINE!!! i say stop it, if your line is this small with a book signing, it won't be longer if you try to do shows for pay. you should sign my stuff (unless i'm way to greedy, but last time i checked, none of these people's autougraphs are selling on ebay either)... i don't want your stupid book...in a 2 hour wait, i saw 3 people START and FINISH the oscar de la hoya book...these books are remedial reading at best...don't insult my intelligence by expecting me to only get an unreadable book signed...let me get my stuff signed, it's not too much to ask...your autograph is not valuable in any way...and i'd much rather have the signed photo than a book that i would never drop my smarts level to read. and publishers should be aware of that...i bought the book already..you got your money...grow the heck up!!! mike p.s. does anyone know where couture's gym is? |
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