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PC Stats has posted a new article Comdex 2001 - A Multimillion Dollar Write Off?



From the moment the media, exhibitors, analysts and attendees got off their respective flights at the Las Vegas International airport it could be seen that Comdex 2001 would not be living up to its previous self. The first tip-off was how easy it was to get a cab.

In previous years, the large attendance Comdex brought into Vegas for those five days was enough to require an entire fleet of extra cabbies to set up camp and start working long shifts. Hell, last year we even got swindled by a professional Boston cabby who charged an entire Ford Explorer worth of businessmen $10 a head to go from the hotel to the LVCC. As if that weren't enough, he even tried to sell a few Rolex's as he weaved in and out of four lanes of traffic. It was an impressive sight, and underlined the extremely long lines out front of each hotel near the Convention Center.
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