Yo Joe! Joe Con 2015 registration go!!!
No more words are needed! Go and register for Joe Con 2015 now!
After all of the delays, after all of the “will they/won’t they” of the past few days, registration for the event is finally live. With just 14 days until the first day of officially sanctioned activities, Joe Con 2015 ties last year’s event as having the latest registration opening.
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The Joe Con 2015 registration updates are threatening to overwhelm the news feed at this point. According to the G.I. Joe Collector’s Club, registration will go LIVE some time today.
Here’s the most recent update from the Club:
Hello everyone,
As we prepare for tomorrow’s registration. Just a few additional notes:
Please note that there are NO non-member options this year (even though it’s in the brochure, the backup solution won’t support this). Everyone will have to be a member of the Club in order to register for the Attending or Non-Attending packages. Exhibitors, you will only need to be a member to register for packages. Booths and Tables do not require a membership. If you are not a member, you will be able to join at the same time.
There will be 2 different sites. One will be for the Registered Packages. The other will be just for the Exhibitors to register for their booths. Exhibitors, if you want convention packages as well, you will need to use both sites. For the booths and tables, there are no worries as we have enough space to accommodate everyone that needs an Exhibitor package. The Exhibitor site may not come up at the same time as the Registered Attendee site.
Please ensure that you go slowly and pick the correct items. The only way we will be able to make changes for you is to cancel your registration and let you start over. This is a limitation of the software. Again, the software will let you break every rule as there is no way for it to limit anything. However, as stated yesterday and earlier today, we will be reviewing every registration before we approve it. Tomorrow’s instructions will tell you how you can tell if you have been approved as there is no way to send you an approval email. There is no need to call or email us until after Friday if you have not seen your registration approved. You will be able to tell this by logging back in. This system will take us longer than normal to check so for tomorrow’s registrations it may take as long as 3+ days to review them all.
Attending registration will only be available for 5 days. It will be turned off on Sunday night around 7pm Central Time.
Non attending: We will get to you next week. We are holding back an allotment of boxed sets and some loose sets for you as well so there will be some available. Please note that most of these items are allocated to the attending members. If there is anything left after the convention, it will go in the club store. Because of the dock workers slow down and the back-up in China, we will not ship the non-attending sets to you until June.
Again from yesterday:
Unfortunately the backup solution doesn’t have total flexibility to edit registration mistakes as it is half computer and half manual. Therefore, please read the brochure again. Go slowly during the registration process, and please DON”T pick the wrong items that are not allowed per the brochure. We will review and approve or disapprove each registration. The only option we have for errors is to delete the registration and let you start over, which could cause a supply issue if someone else gets the item before you re-register.
Just a quick note on some of the rules:
Golden Ticket packages can only have 1 GT Aide with them.
Golden Ticket packages can order the other boxed sets as well if they want more than one boxed set.
American Hero and/or General’s packages can have up to 4 aides.
For the 3 3/4″ loose sets, you are only allowed one loose figure set per boxed set.
Don’t pick the Thursday Class and the Thursday Walking Tour as you can’t be in 2 paces at the same time.
Please make sure you put in the proper field (on the registration) all of the package holder’s name(s) and which package they are assigned to.
The software doesn’t know any of these rules, so it’s up to you to follow them (as we do know the rules).Thanks for your patience and we apologize for any issues the delay has caused you.
Brian
At this point, my advice is to keep checking the official Joe Con 2015 website throughout the day. We’ll provide any updates as we have them as well.
Good luck to all who are trying to get into the Custom Class or who want to purchase the illusive Golden Tickets this year.
There’s no need to wear out your F5 keys today. Registration for Joe Con 2015 will NOT be going live until possibly tomorrow.
Here’s the latest from the G.I. Joe Collector’s Club:
REGISTRATION UPDATE
We are still working on getting a system up. It won’t be today so you can relax. We have some minor things to fix in the alternate sign up method program.
So, take the evening off, relax, and get ready for the mad rush to register for Joe Con 2015 tomorrow!
And now you know!
Joe Con 2015 begins in 15 days and we have our first actual update as to when registration will go “LIVE”…
The G.I. Joe Collector’s Club sent out the following email last night to its member list:
Hello everyone,
At this point, we have very little faith that the programming company will finish the new software enough for registration to take place with the new version. We are very disappointed in this company and will be taking the appropriate action after the convention. We are diligently working on implementing our back-up plan.
We are planning to bring one or the other online either Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday. Please note that non-attending packages will NOT be available until we close the attending registrations (which will only be open a few days).
Unfortunately the backup solution doesn’t have total flexibility to edit registration mistakes as it is half computer and half manual. Therefore, please read the brochure again. Go slowly during the registration process, and please DON”T pick the wrong items that are not allowed per the brochure. We will review and approve or disapprove each registration. The only option we have for errors is to delete the registration and let you start over, which could cause a supply issue if someone else gets the item before you re-register.
Just a quick note on some of the rules:
- Golden Ticket packages can only have 1 GT Aide with them.
- Golden Ticket packages can order the other boxed sets as well if they want more than one boxed set.
- American Hero and/or General’s packages can have up to 4 aides.
- For the 3 3/4″ loose sets, you are only allowed one loose figure set per boxed set.
Don’t pick the Thursday Class and the Thursday Walking Tour as you can’t be in 2 paces at the same time.
Please make sure you put in the proper field (on the registration) all of the package holder’s name(s) and which package they are assigned to.
The software doesn’t know any of these rules, so it’s up to you to follow them (as we do know the rules).Thanks for your patience and I assure you we are more upset than you are….
Brian
PS. The store will be offline until after registration is complete.
Joe Con 2015 is now 19 days away! In the words of Homer J. Simpson: “WOO HOO!”
As of this afternoon, there has been no update on when registration will go “live.” The Club’s last update which was published on Wednesday of this week only gave the following information:
Hello Club Members!~
LESS THAN 7 HOURS LEFT IN THE WINTER CLEARANCE SALE! CHECK OUT WHAT’S LEFT! ENDS AT 5PM CENTRAL TIME TODAY!
Check it out at GIJoeClub.com/shop!
Also, no registration update yet. We are waiting on the next code push to see if it solves the remains issues.
Have a great week,
Brian
This isn’t without precedent. For the past few years, registration has been delayed closer and closer to the actual start of the convention itself. The reasons given typically involve updates to the system, problems with the programmers, new fix builds, etc. Each year the fans that attend the convention find themselves waiting closer and closer to the actual start date of the event to commit to their attendance.
The G.I. Joe Collector’s Club sent out the following update to its membership regarding their ongoing Winter Clearance Sale and Joe Con 2015:
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Hmmm… “Registration is still several weeks away”…
The dates for Joe Con 2015 are looming ever closer and potential attendees are wondering “How soon can we register for the event?” Today, the folks at the G.I. Joe Collector’s Club sent out this update regarding the registration time table and the effect of the West Coast dock workers slowdown on the convention sets:
Hello everyone!
I hope you have been enjoying the images of the convention sets at GIJoeCon.com! We are very excited to be able to bring these figures to you.
Here’s the current registration update: We are still getting the final bugs worked out of the new version of the registration software. We are down to 9 critical issues and the programmer is working to correct them. As you know in development, sometimes when you fix one thing, it causes an error somewhere else. So, no registration this week. Unknown about next week at this time.
We are planning to put attending and non-attending up at the same time so both will fall in line with the first day (24 hr) exclusive pin (3 3/4″ set) / jacket (12″ set). We will also be extending the discount date for Exhibitors ordering multiple booths, so no worries.
Several of you have expressed concerns about the west coast dock workers slow down. Yes it is true that the ports are backed up for weeks maybe months. Because of this, we are bringing in all of the convention items via air freight and it will be really tight for the final shipment as it’s coming in multiple waves.
If you have not made a hotel reservation, please do so quickly as there are just a few rooms left for each night. Use the link at GIJoeCon.com!
See you in Springfield!
Brian
Sigh…
I hate to say it but we’ve been here before. More than once. (Yes, those are multiple links.) It seems that every year there’s some sort of issue with the registration system that causes continual delays and a series of “registration is coming soon” messages that are inevitably followed by “registration is REALLY coming soon.”