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P120_Cartman
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Thanks but i was there all day trying to find it and i finally found it as a matter of a fact here is it
Show rules apply to everyone - please review them carefully!
1. Absolutely NO venomous: NO rear-fanged: No surgically altered: NO venomous animals of any kind. Anyone that has a venomous animal (including the parking lot, hotel or show building) will be prosecuted - it's against the law to possess or sell venomous reptiles in Illinois.
2. No imported reptiles. Captive bred or "quality" farm raised animals only if we wouldn't buy it, you won't be allowed to sell it. You get the idea! This rule will be strictly enforced.
3. Vendor set-up will start Friday at 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. and also on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and Sunday at 9:00 a.m. until the show opens at 10:00 a.m. Saturday night vendors and personnel must be out of the Convention Center by 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
4. No crocodilians are legal for sale or ownership in Illinois.
5. All animals must be kept in clean, suitable, secure and humane containers. We discourage keeping animals in the hotel rooms. Please arrange to keep animals in the convention building only - no animals can be displayed or uncaged elsewhere.
6. Endangered species or other "permit animals" must not be sold or displayed without proper legal documentation from the seller and the buyer. Department of Natural Resources of Illinois, Fish and Wildlife Service and other undercover personnel will be present.
7. Only paid Vendors/Dealers are allowed to sell or display animals during show hours at the Convention Center only. All animals must be sold by Vendors/Dealers only. Once a "sold" animal leaves the building, it cannot be brought back inside. A "hold for (with the buyer's name note)" can be kept secure - behind the vendor's table - if the buyer needs to leave the building temporarily. No sales or transactions can be conducted in the parking lots, from vehicles at the hotels, restaurants, the hotel rooms and hotel lobbies.
8. Professional security will be provided Friday night until Saturday morning and Saturday night until Sunday morning. No one may enter during these times for any reason. The building will be locked and protected by armed security during the off show hours. There will be no other weapons of any kind allowed during the show hours, except for security personnel.
8. Professional security will be provided Friday night until Saturday morning and Saturday night until Sunday morning. No one may enter during these times for any reason. The building will be locked and protected by armed security during the off show hours. There will be no other weapons of any kind allowed during the show hours, except for security personnel.
9. No mammals or birds allowed for sale. It's a reptile show, not a pet show.
10. One Vendor name badge will be issued for each paid booth (no sharing or swapping of badges). Vendors are entitled to purchase one additional badge per paid booth. Vendor passes are to be used by the registered vendor and his associates/employees only. Only show personnel and registered vendors will be allowed in the hall during set-up/breakdown hours.
11. Vendors who are sharing tables or selling animals on consignment for friends are held responsible for animals placed on their tables. Know what you are selling, whether it's yours or not! The vendor who rents the table is held responsible for following all the show rules.
12. All items for sale must be reptile/amphibians related or products/services relating to the show's environmental goals.
13. All exhibitors are expected to act in a professional manner. In appropriate behavior (angry outbursts, verbal threats or physical violence) will not be invited back the following year and may be asked to exit the show immediately.
14. N.A.R.B. Conference and Trade Show and the Tinley Park Holiday Inn Select & Convention Center cannot be held responsible for damage, theft or injuries and they also reserve the right to expel anyone that is in violation of these rules. Since the show coordinator must deal with the possible misinterpretation of these rules or numerous unforeseen problems, the show coordinator reserves the right to remove any animal or any exhibitor for any reason.
15. Any new rules will be posted at day of set-up.
NOTE: An inspection by qualified professionals and other vendors, will be conducted before and during the show. Please take the captive bred rule very seriously. It will be enforced.
NARBC wishes to maintain a reputation for offering only high quality, healthy, captively bred animals. If it is not healthy do not bring it to the show! NARBC is not responsible for omission or error at time or print.
One question tho for this 7. no one but vendor are allowed to bring animals? I mean no offense but i can see where this works and where it doesn't when your buying you can look at them right i mean "nothing can be out of a secure container".
Thanks for your help and i will be here as i think that Lees will be empty.
Show rules apply to everyone - please review them carefully!
1. Absolutely NO venomous: NO rear-fanged: No surgically altered: NO venomous animals of any kind. Anyone that has a venomous animal (including the parking lot, hotel or show building) will be prosecuted - it's against the law to possess or sell venomous reptiles in Illinois.
2. No imported reptiles. Captive bred or "quality" farm raised animals only if we wouldn't buy it, you won't be allowed to sell it. You get the idea! This rule will be strictly enforced.
3. Vendor set-up will start Friday at 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. and also on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and Sunday at 9:00 a.m. until the show opens at 10:00 a.m. Saturday night vendors and personnel must be out of the Convention Center by 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
4. No crocodilians are legal for sale or ownership in Illinois.
5. All animals must be kept in clean, suitable, secure and humane containers. We discourage keeping animals in the hotel rooms. Please arrange to keep animals in the convention building only - no animals can be displayed or uncaged elsewhere.
6. Endangered species or other "permit animals" must not be sold or displayed without proper legal documentation from the seller and the buyer. Department of Natural Resources of Illinois, Fish and Wildlife Service and other undercover personnel will be present.
7. Only paid Vendors/Dealers are allowed to sell or display animals during show hours at the Convention Center only. All animals must be sold by Vendors/Dealers only. Once a "sold" animal leaves the building, it cannot be brought back inside. A "hold for (with the buyer's name note)" can be kept secure - behind the vendor's table - if the buyer needs to leave the building temporarily. No sales or transactions can be conducted in the parking lots, from vehicles at the hotels, restaurants, the hotel rooms and hotel lobbies.
8. Professional security will be provided Friday night until Saturday morning and Saturday night until Sunday morning. No one may enter during these times for any reason. The building will be locked and protected by armed security during the off show hours. There will be no other weapons of any kind allowed during the show hours, except for security personnel.
8. Professional security will be provided Friday night until Saturday morning and Saturday night until Sunday morning. No one may enter during these times for any reason. The building will be locked and protected by armed security during the off show hours. There will be no other weapons of any kind allowed during the show hours, except for security personnel.
9. No mammals or birds allowed for sale. It's a reptile show, not a pet show.
10. One Vendor name badge will be issued for each paid booth (no sharing or swapping of badges). Vendors are entitled to purchase one additional badge per paid booth. Vendor passes are to be used by the registered vendor and his associates/employees only. Only show personnel and registered vendors will be allowed in the hall during set-up/breakdown hours.
11. Vendors who are sharing tables or selling animals on consignment for friends are held responsible for animals placed on their tables. Know what you are selling, whether it's yours or not! The vendor who rents the table is held responsible for following all the show rules.
12. All items for sale must be reptile/amphibians related or products/services relating to the show's environmental goals.
13. All exhibitors are expected to act in a professional manner. In appropriate behavior (angry outbursts, verbal threats or physical violence) will not be invited back the following year and may be asked to exit the show immediately.
14. N.A.R.B. Conference and Trade Show and the Tinley Park Holiday Inn Select & Convention Center cannot be held responsible for damage, theft or injuries and they also reserve the right to expel anyone that is in violation of these rules. Since the show coordinator must deal with the possible misinterpretation of these rules or numerous unforeseen problems, the show coordinator reserves the right to remove any animal or any exhibitor for any reason.
15. Any new rules will be posted at day of set-up.
NOTE: An inspection by qualified professionals and other vendors, will be conducted before and during the show. Please take the captive bred rule very seriously. It will be enforced.
NARBC wishes to maintain a reputation for offering only high quality, healthy, captively bred animals. If it is not healthy do not bring it to the show! NARBC is not responsible for omission or error at time or print.
One question tho for this 7. no one but vendor are allowed to bring animals? I mean no offense but i can see where this works and where it doesn't when your buying you can look at them right i mean "nothing can be out of a secure container".
Thanks for your help and i will be here as i think that Lees will be empty.
unfortunately I have to work so even though I live about 15 minutes away I won't be going again, Don't worry webslave we dont have any snow drifts yet in fact today (Oct. 1st) its supposed to get to 85 but I think its going to cool down so it will be in the 60's & 70's
evansnakes
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You just have to realize that at a show that is this big and exspensive dealers and breeders bring the best stuff they have and most of the reptiles that walk into shows are in poor shape. You do not want some guys with a snake loaded with mites or drooling with respiratory infection leaning over somebodies display of $50,000-100,000 animals. That never goes very well. It is a show for vendors to sell at not the public. Sometimes that is good, sometimes that is bad, but when the promoters tell you the rules, if you don't like them nobody is forced to go. Evan Stahl
WARNING! Severe biohazard!!
About meeting up in front of my table this weekend. Please be advised that I am apparently the first victim of Saddam's bioterrorist attack on the USA. I'm not sure if it is West Nile Virus with a nuclear anthrax core, or just the common cold laced with genetically spliced material from Ebola. But it is indeed diabolical. This morning I was also smited mightily by a migraine headache. Then to add insult to injury, the metal foil on the throat lozenge I took slashed my lower lip while I was trying to take the darned thing without touching it with my fingers. So I will be trying real hard not to crack a smile the entire weekend, lest blood begins to dribble down my chin when my lip splits open again.
All interested individuals are advised that keeping their distance may be in order. I will accept no responsibility nor liability for the epidemic that may engulf Chicago afterwards.
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'> I hope this all isn't an omen about the show........... <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>
If I didn't have so much sunk into the tables, I would seriously consider staying home and sleeping through the weekend. I can't believe we got ALL the snakes fed since getting home from Tampa Sunday night.......
Odd Ball Exotics
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Awwwww poor guy....if it wasn't such a long drive for me I'd bring you some homemade chicken soup, but it would spoil by the time I gave it to you...and I think the last thing you need is some food poisening. I hope you feel better by this weekend!!
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Let's see . . .
I can pick up some great snakes from Rich AND some exotic disease that will allow me to get out of work for a couple days to get used to them?
BONUS!!!!!!!!!
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I can pick up some great snakes from Rich AND some exotic disease that will allow me to get out of work for a couple days to get used to them?
BONUS!!!!!!!!!
See you all there <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'>evansnakes
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I don't know if announcing you have the plague is the best way to get people to the booth but you never know. Maybe sympathy sales with boost business. Evan
I'm expecting I will lose my voice half way through Saturday. Then when I refuse to shake someone's hand for fear of giving them my germs, and then can't talk to them because my voice is gone, I'm certain I'll get pegged as some stuck up SOB whom can't take the time of day to talk to people.
I actually feel better today than I did yesterday. But that Nyquil is murder on my brain cells. Might be some deals to be had this weekend since I will have trouble working the calculator all drugged up like that. I can't believe that people will go to a bar and spend a bunch of money on drinks when a bottle of Nyquil will do you in a LOT quicker!
Man, this is a LONG drive! I'm in Carbondale tonight spending the night at a motel along route 57. I think the Nyquil has finally kicked in, so I'm off to la-la land.
I actually feel better today than I did yesterday. But that Nyquil is murder on my brain cells. Might be some deals to be had this weekend since I will have trouble working the calculator all drugged up like that. I can't believe that people will go to a bar and spend a bunch of money on drinks when a bottle of Nyquil will do you in a LOT quicker!
Man, this is a LONG drive! I'm in Carbondale tonight spending the night at a motel along route 57. I think the Nyquil has finally kicked in, so I'm off to la-la land.
Casey Hulse
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I thought it was a good show, seemed like a lot of people and lots of nice herps.
Rich Z, It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife, you both are very nice people ( I really thought you were much taller??? at least 6'5")I hope you had a good experience because I hope to see you there next year. You have some awesome snakes and a very nice display. I wish my boas had colors like your corns... Wow!!
Rich Z, It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife, you both are very nice people ( I really thought you were much taller??? at least 6'5")I hope you had a good experience because I hope to see you there next year. You have some awesome snakes and a very nice display. I wish my boas had colors like your corns... Wow!!
evansnakes
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Well I just got home from the show. I wanted to say how nice it was for so many people from this site to have stopped by and said hello. I hope you all enjoyed looking at my booth. I really enjoyed meeting everybody.
It was a really nice show. The banquet and auction raised a bunch of money for PIJAC's legal defense fund to keep our rights to have reptiles. There were a bunch of great people there with some sensational animals. BHB Enterprises' Pinstripe Ball Pythons, Ralph Davis' snow ball, lavender albino ball, etc., Darin Bell had his awesome hypo Brazilian Rainbow Boas, John and Amy Mack brought one of there adult albino Argentine Boas (it is just amazing!<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> and so much more. Anybody that played hookie and didn't make it should be kicking themselves and planning to be there next year. Bob Ashley and Brian Potter really deserve a big thank you from both the reptile industry and the pet trade for hosting such a great event.
Evan Stahl
It was a really nice show. The banquet and auction raised a bunch of money for PIJAC's legal defense fund to keep our rights to have reptiles. There were a bunch of great people there with some sensational animals. BHB Enterprises' Pinstripe Ball Pythons, Ralph Davis' snow ball, lavender albino ball, etc., Darin Bell had his awesome hypo Brazilian Rainbow Boas, John and Amy Mack brought one of there adult albino Argentine Boas (it is just amazing!<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> and so much more. Anybody that played hookie and didn't make it should be kicking themselves and planning to be there next year. Bob Ashley and Brian Potter really deserve a big thank you from both the reptile industry and the pet trade for hosting such a great event.Evan Stahl
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It was a great show! Rich's animals were terrific (I got a 1.1 pair of silver queen ghosts), and so were Kathy Love's animals. Evan won't toot his own horn, but he had some excellent animals there! It was great meeting all of you.
I saw some good deals and some frightening "claims" being made (I love it when someone is selling the new brand "X" corn morph, but when I ask them what went into the mix to produce it, they have no idea!), but the average booth was informative, friendly, and full of great looking animals. Can't wait till next year!
I saw some good deals and some frightening "claims" being made (I love it when someone is selling the new brand "X" corn morph, but when I ask them what went into the mix to produce it, they have no idea!), but the average booth was informative, friendly, and full of great looking animals. Can't wait till next year!
Odd Ball Exotics
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Well I was at the show but I only had enough time to pick up the breeders I wanted before I got a call from the kennel saying that one of my dogs was sick, so I missed meeting all of you. Nothing like driving six hours to sleep, spend and hour at the show, then drive six hours back. Oh well, I still had fun and picked up a nice pair of leo's while I was there. Hope to meet you all the next time around!
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Rich Z, It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife, you both are very nice people ( I really thought you were much taller??? at least 6'5")I hope you had a good experience because I hope to see you there next year. You have some awesome snakes and a very nice display. I wish my boas had colors like your corns... Wow!!
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Me too. LOL <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>
Rich Z, It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife, you both are very nice people ( I really thought you were much taller??? at least 6'5")I hope you had a good experience because I hope to see you there next year. You have some awesome snakes and a very nice display. I wish my boas had colors like your corns... Wow!!
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Me too. LOL <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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personally i can't wait for the next one, when i have 20 grand (I wish) and heading staright to Peter Khals table i just want to say that going back to tinley reminded me why i love reptiles in the first place esp. snakes!!! Also i will be there next year and etc, i was surprised to see what little Ralph Davis had there to be honest but thats only because not everyone can buy those animals. i would of needed a u-haul to leave there if i had it may way Just want to say thanks to Darin for the carpet!!! <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>
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