Pinin: Internet Superheroes of the telephony age

So Pinin was formed by three guys about 2 years ago.
We’ve made inroads into the industry and our brand is now there. There’s only about 2-3 conventions where you do not see the magenta and white. The other cons though, we’re there in spade. Supporting every Animania, Smash and Supanova, we’re there without a moment of hesitation.
I like to think that we’ve made an impact and left an impression because Three will now become two. Yes that’s right, I’m leaving Pinin for other projects and other things. No longer will you have to read my bile and hate. No longer will you be greeted rudely by that tall asian who looks like Skeletor because you have no life but plenty of audacity to tell him the history of Gundam Gazillion and Five (seriously, not fucking interested).

Enjoy what Pinin has to offer, it’ll be around for a lot longer, I might end up dying in a gutter in a few years thanks to a drug overdose but the company will be fine.

Au reviour.

With Smash over (thank god for that) and Animania fast approaching, we have put together a list of tips for you the convention goer to survive and get ahead at a con!

1, Bring change, lots of change: Little known fact that the vendors will love you because we run out of change really quickly even when we stock up. This is because people pay with 50s at the beginning and that proves to be a problem later on. It might take a while to count those coins but the stalls will love you for it and might throw you a discount or a freebie!

2, Ask if they accept eftpos: Let’s face it. There’s only one ATM at most cons and that runs out quickly. Thankfully us vendors have gotten smart and we now have our own eftpos machine (but we don’t do cash out) so as long as you’re not eftposing a 2 dollar item then it’s all good.

3, Run away when they perform karaoke: Just because.

4, Be polite: This one’s personal. Pinin is not my day job. Pinin is a side thing I do mostly out of fun of running an online business and also because it’s nice to be able to create something. I can take a lot of shit from my bosses when it comes to my real job because it’s a decently cushy job. What I won’t do however is take shit from you, the customer. Our products will always have a price, if it doesn’t then you ask politely and we will find the price for you. We have lots of merchandise and it’s NOT something we do every day so we won’t know the prices off the top of our heads. Don’t be a cunt.

We have the right to refuse service to you, the customer is not always right and by god there is nothing stopping me from planting my fist into your face.

5, Don’t whinge on the convention forums if you thought the event was shit: Even if the event WAS shit you don’t do that because then you’ll attract all the stupid apologists and start flame wars that you can’t win. Instead, type a personal email to the organisers and again, be polite. Saying “I will never go to the convention ever again!” is a redundant comment. If you aren’t going to go to the convention ever again, why would they bother addressing YOUR grievances when you aren’t going to go back? Think before writing you dumbass.

Open ear though so don’t even think about wearing them in public if you don’t want people to hear that you’re listening to the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys.

FYI I’m actually currently listening to Regina Spektor, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Carla Bruni and Temper Trap.

Is it just me or are there a lack of Smash posters in random Chinese restaurants this year?

Meanwhile I just came back from this:

Noosa’s a nice place to be at this time of year.

Throwing clothes into my suitcase to head to a work conference in Tropical Noosa.
MEANWHILE! I miss these :\