We get along with most of the local haunts. We trade nights with a couple, sending our actors there and theirs come see us for free. We try to send at least a few of our people to the ones we don't trade with so they can see just what the other haunts are up to and how they are different than us. We always remind them to act as they would want customers to act in our haunt.
Our ticketing booth and parking lot have the directions and prices for the other haunts in the area and give them out freely.
Over the years we have helped when we can. One guy built a room in our haunt, the next year he built a small haunt co-located with us, then told us we didn't know what we were doing and went across town to build his own place. This year was his third and final year in business.
This year we did co-advertising and ticketing with a new haunt down the road which helped us both out.
Our creative side also designed a haunt in FL for disabled children a couple of years ago.
We do have one local haunt that does not care for us. They tell people we are not very good and have gone as far as to call us "pornographic" to the customers that ask about us. One of their "associates" sold himself as a 'haunt expert' to a local paper a few years back and was hired to write the reviews. As you can guess, he raved about his own place and trashed everyone else. A not so nice call to the editor got a second review, but by then the damage was done. When we approached the owners about it, their answer was they had nothing to do with it and could not control one person's actions. (They did not fire him)
All in all, we feel that haunt feed off each other and it is better to get along than to fight and bicker. There is enough of that out there the rest of the year.
What comes around goes around!
Nat
Asylum House
www.theasylumhouse.com
Our ticketing booth and parking lot have the directions and prices for the other haunts in the area and give them out freely.
Over the years we have helped when we can. One guy built a room in our haunt, the next year he built a small haunt co-located with us, then told us we didn't know what we were doing and went across town to build his own place. This year was his third and final year in business.
This year we did co-advertising and ticketing with a new haunt down the road which helped us both out.
Our creative side also designed a haunt in FL for disabled children a couple of years ago.
We do have one local haunt that does not care for us. They tell people we are not very good and have gone as far as to call us "pornographic" to the customers that ask about us. One of their "associates" sold himself as a 'haunt expert' to a local paper a few years back and was hired to write the reviews. As you can guess, he raved about his own place and trashed everyone else. A not so nice call to the editor got a second review, but by then the damage was done. When we approached the owners about it, their answer was they had nothing to do with it and could not control one person's actions. (They did not fire him)
All in all, we feel that haunt feed off each other and it is better to get along than to fight and bicker. There is enough of that out there the rest of the year.
What comes around goes around!
Nat
Asylum House
www.theasylumhouse.com
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