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6 hours ago, Turtle said:

I remember about a year and a half ago at a medium-sized show in New Jersey, I approached a creator (who will remain nameless) and had about 5 books that were all unique and all window-bagged.  He wasn't working on anything at the moment and was just looking around.  When I caught his eye, I approached, smiled, and said "Hello".  Before I could say anything else, he quite aggressively said "I'm not signing anything in those cutout bags!" and proceeded to look around.  No eye contact, no greeting, no common decency. 

If the books were for me, I'd have turned around and left them unsigned, probably after telling him how disappointed I was in his attitude.  But I was getting these books done for a friend, so I swallowed my pride and complied with his rudely laid-out demands; much as it hurt my soul to do so. 

I had never personally dealt with this creator before, I had what I considered a reasonable number of books to get signed (again, all unique and no keys), I wasn't toting around a large stack of books and going table to table, and I had the cash out and ready to pay his clearly-posted fee (which said nothing of window bags).  This creator decided to pass judgment on me for no other reason than I approached him with window-bagged books and he decided that I wasn't worth the common decency and basic level of respect that one would expect in this setting.  It was at a convention during signing hours...it's not like I was stopping him in the street or anything. 

Up until that point, I could convince myself that the disdain from the creators over the SS program wasn't as bad a people were making it out to be.  But when that happened to me and I started seeing this same thing happen more and more frequently, Sig Series lost a lot of luster with me.

Great story, keep 'em coming!