Anybody else see these? They are everywhere but none of the signs say where the stupid fair is!!! Ha!!!
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youthfortomorrow.org has the info.

Read the sign.

He was pointing out that he did not have Internet access to find the answer.

I mean when he posted the picture on this site that showed no address listed, wait, never mind.

As a courtesy for those Fairfax Underground users who do not have internet access:

Host: Joe Gibbs, YFT Founder and Chairman
Chair: Richard Norman
When: Saturday, October 1st 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Youth For Tomorrow Campus, 11835 Hazel Circle Drive (just off Linton Hall Road) Bristow, VA
Why: To benefit Youth For Tomorrow – A residential youth home and private school for at-risk teenage boys and girls
Admission: $10 for adults, $5 for children 16 and under, ages 3 and under are free.
Kids ride and play all day for free on more than 80 rides and amusements with paid admission.
Live Auction starts at at 12:30 under the big tent in the midway. Everyone is welcome! Come see Joe Gibbs speak.

I find fairs at fairgrounds. duh

It's an attempt to blacklist anyone who doesn't have Internet access. In other words, it's racist.

Hey idiot. It's on the back of the sign. Go pull it apart and you'll see. Report back.

What idiots! Marketing 101, if you want people to attend an event, and you want them to pay to attend then it's in your best interest to make all the information immediately available at first glance. You sure as fuck don't want potential customers to have to go look for the information! Guarantee this "fair" is a colossal failure because of this idiotic method of advertising the event.

I did see this sign while driving the other day. And the first thing I thought was: why is that sign here and where is the event?

And then I never thought about it again until now.

It is a generic sign that can be reused from year to year, even if the venue location changes.

Only the date is listed, and you can see that it has been easily modified from time to time.

They are just trying to be frugal with their signage and advertising budget.

If you found out that 10% of the donations went to yearly sign costs you would be complaining about that too.

Get this - If you are too stupid to go the website that is clearly displayed on the sign for complete info, then you need not attend.

Take this quiz:

Have you ever been to a fair before?

Were you only aware of the fair and its location because a sign you saw while walking or driving?

If you answered yes to the second question, you are full of shit.

In conclusion, shut the fuck up, this thread is closed.

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This thread is officially closed. Any further replies should be considered irrelevant and will be ignored.

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Signs? Wrote:
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> Take this quiz:
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> Have you ever been to a fair before?
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> Were you only aware of the fair and its location
> because a sign you saw while walking or driving?
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> If you answered yes to the second question, you
> are full of shit.
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> In conclusion, shut the fuck up, this thread is
> closed.
>
>


but they are such pretty little signs.....

Well, OP is maybe overreacting a bit, but has a valid point. If the fair is a mile from my house, I'm more likely to remember and be interested in going. If I see the sign (as I did repeatedly today) and have to try to remember a URL to go look and see whether I want to go, I'm a lot less likely to go (and, in fact, have forgotten the URL).

Pretty basic marketing stuff. I understand the "reusing the sign" point, but surely if the date can be changed, so can the location? Or a smaller sign added below the main one?

This is all too common, especially on the web: I keep finding websites for professional organizations that give no clue what their acronym stands for, or conferences that don't list the location without digging. Gotta test usability, kids!

Saw the signs, no clue where the fair is so no chance I'll be attending.
Losers.

Fair attending tutorial for the mentally retarded:

Step 1: Read sign.

Step 2: Type website address on sign into browser on phone.

Step 3: Attend fair

Sincerely,

Joe Gibbs

Joe Gibbs Wrote:
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> Fair attending tutorial for the mentally
> retarded:
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> Step 1: Read sign.
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> Step 2: Type website address on sign into browser
> on phone.
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> Step 3: Attend fair
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> Sincerely,
>
> Joe Gibbs

More likely senario. You are DRIVING your car and see the sign. You bother to glance at the sign and read the first two or three lines and it peaks your interest. But at the speed you are going you don't actually have time to read through all 10 lines of the sign. And the url appears at the bottom so it is likely the last line you will read. On the odd chance you did see the url you are a responsible citizen rather than a FFXU asshole so you don't type a url into your phone while driving. And then you forget about it.

the very first line of the sign tells you the location...joe gibb's youth for tomorrow...if you don't know where that is then you should look it up. not that hard

I don't care where the fair is because I am not going. Thank god after this weekend we won't have to look at those signs anymore because I am getting tired of seeing them everywhere I go. That is of course if the organizers are responsible enough to go around and remove all of the signs they have scattered all over the freakin county!