I've been wearing my Quick Buck visor pretty much everyday since I picked it up during last year's Internext Expo in Hollywood, FL. I love visors, and I really like the Quick Buck visor in particular. The fit is impeccable and the simple khaki and black color scheme is both hip and synchronizes nicely with my everyday, country club fashion style. In case you haven't noticed, or accidentally flipped over to MTV lately, visors are quite trendy these days.
I returned home from last year's show with a bounty of t-shirts, condoms, buttons, towels, stickers and other assorted knick-knacks, but the visor was undoubtedly the find of the weekend for me.
Well, summertime is here, and as the AVN Online mod squad readies itself to storm the beaches of Hollywood yet again for a little shock and awe of our own, I am keyed up at the thought of all the free merchandise the exhibitors will be tossing around like meat to hungry wolves.
Between the business, marketing and overall (adult) Internet industry merriment that permeates the show, the convention floor is much like a sexed-up yard sale. All kinds of goodies and mixed bric-a-brac that will no doubt end up in the trash upon your return home. There are only so many pens one needs in life. You don't realize how much crazy stuff you accumulate after three days until you empty your suitcase on the bed and spot a black g-string that you casually put in your pocket thinking at the time that a thirty year-old male can never have too many black g-strings in the house.
For the exhibitors it's perfect bait. Usually there's a beautiful girl or six gladly handing out merchandise, playing the part of siren, calling out to Webmasters and guests, luring them closer to the booth. If a hot blonde wearing a thong and tank top wants to hand me a bottle of lube, then by golly I'm gladly accepting it.
My sources tell me, and by sources I mean Jayson Blair, that YNOT will have limited edition YNOT Masters t-shirts circulating at the show...which is nice. The crack staff here at Tripp Headquarters has also informed me that Webmaster Central plans to give away CD's, which are like business cards you pop in your computer to learn all about the company. Excellent! I shall take ten!
People love stuff, free stuff especially, regardless if they have any use for it whatsoever. My mother visited me at the show last year and spent an entire day on the show floor stuffing God-knows-what into her oversized Top Bucks bag. It was quite a stirring vision. With every baby-doll tee she flung into her bag, all I could see was my therapy bills getting bigger and bigger. Telling your mom to "put down the dildo" is troubling to say the least. What she was planning to do with four I Love Boobs t-shirts I still have no idea, and I'm not sure if mom closed any content deals, but she definitely scored some choice products.
The Quick Buck visor is a bit tattered now after much use, though I still wear it proudly. I'm crossing my fingers that a new edition will be mine upon Day 1 of the show. But with each Internext comes the optimism of fresh goodies to horde before they're gone. Maybe there will be a brand new visor from a different company of equal style and comfort. Who knows? But I will scour through a ton of junk, if I must, to find one. Believe it. My entire wardrobe depends on it.
By the way, any companies preparing to give away t-shirts, especially if there's a hot babe inside, please don't forget the XX-Ls. Thanks.
-Tripp Daniels
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