Brandon, Kris and myself have spent the last 2 days walking around the NADA Dealer Convention in Orlando Florida. We’ve had the opportunity to talk to some great people in the industry including dealers and vendors.

We met car dealers from Canada, Chile, Italy, Brazil, China and the Dominican Republic. The word was many dealers from the Northeast had canceled flight issues due to snow, so they will arrive tomorrow.

We even saw Mike Ditka cruising around on something similar to a Segway. I’m not sure what vendor hired him, but he was there for some reason.

Another vendor had a poker table set-up with Scotty Nguyen (5 time World Series Poker Winner). I’m not sure if anything was at stake, but there was a full table playing with a professional dealer.

We plan on heading back over there tomorrow, so if we see anything new we’ll let you know. So far it’s been the same old thing, with nothing ground breaking to report.

2010 NADA Convention in Orlando Florida

Big Money Is Spent For Booths

More vendors Walking Around Than Dealers

We also heard some horror stories about the rates at the Orlando Convention Center. Besides booth rentals, if you wanted a coffee urn at your station it’s $500.00…PER POT! You want to rent a cheap metal folding chair? $300.00 for 3 days! Can you believe that?