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I Only Got to Speak at NADA After I BOUGHT a Booth 🎤 (Pay-to-Play)

3 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Chris Collins recounts his experience trying to speak at NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association conference). He claims he was never selected to speak until he bought a booth, and that buying and staffing a booth is expensive—he estimates "close to $100,000"—including union labor and logistics that made the first speaking experience poor. The segment is an anecdotal critique of a perceived pay-to-play selection dynamic.

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"Close to $100,000".

No; he says he was never selected to speak until he bought a booth.

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They say that you are chosen independent on whether you are buying a booth there. But I will tell you that I never got selected to speak until I bought a booth. I applied a bunch of times and never got chosen. And then the one year I bought a booth, I got chosen to be a speaker there in the. The very first time I went and I was a speaker. It was. It was not a great experience. Like, you spend close to $100,000 having a booth there, because you have to get a staff, and you got to stop. You got to. You got to pay union guys that don't really care about what they're doing to set your thing up. You. You can't even take your stuff on the floor. They have to carry it on the floor.