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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-04-07 06:34 pm

[ SECRET POST #3016 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3016 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-04-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Not the OP.

I make a decent salary ($80k US) and drive a nice car, etc.

And I am STILL flummoxed at the amount of money some people spend on fandom things (like $2k for a Supernatural meet and greet at a convention. For 30 minutes with a group of ten people! Or ten $200 photo ops on one day.)

Not sure what these people do for a living or if they have wealthy families (or overextended credit cards) financing their fandom activities, but there are definitely people who probably spend more money than you do in fandom and make no effort to hide it.

(Anonymous) 2015-04-08 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
In my experiernce, the people I've seen who do that aren't making more money than you, they're just spending it much more frivolously

I've seen people spend $300 on figurines then beg on the internet for rent

(Anonymous) 2015-04-08 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but it's difficult to tell the difference between people who generally live well and spend lots of money on frivolous things, those who are broke but still spend on frivolous things, and those who (like a lot of people) save up for big events or merch that are meaningful to them by scrounging at other times.

(Anonymous) 2015-04-08 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I know that fandom and people in it who do 4-5 cons a year and spend $2-3k at each one. There was also a fan who gave $15k for a charity auction to spend time on set.

Supernatural fandom is strange. Well, I'm sure there are probably Trekkies who do the same kind of thing, but that's a lot of money. I hope people do have the money and aren't in debt to do this.