Very funny!

thats funny i disagree with where hes coming from but from my personal experience from working at a store it does get pretty annoying sometimes.....not like the people who just come in and look and stuff but we have one guy who constantly comes in and milks us for information bout a certain product and takes our time usually a half an hour to forty five minutes than leaves an orders it online and doesnt buy anything from us...to me that gets annoying but other than that i dont care

Sounds like something we're going to be adopting soon.... j/k. That's just ridiculous. They better have some good music and a stocked bar if they're going to be charging at the door like that. All joking aside, I would agree with drock. That is a scenario that does play out very often at the LFS, and it's just part of the biz. Bottom line is, there's no easy way to get around it, and I believe charging an entry fee would just discourage current and potential hobbyists from going there at all. But that's just my two cents.

I think it was a publicity stunt. Free commercial for his store.