Geeze, in all my years I've never been to a bad gun show...CT, FL, TN, CA, IL, TX. Some are better than others...
These days, I view the $7 entry fee as cheap compared to a movie I didn't want to see anyway. And giving that $10 to Hollywood so they can continue to spout anti-2A values? No thank you.
At a gun show I am among people of a like mind (for the most part). Some of the vendors are crooks, but most are merely optimists.
Recently, there are very few times when I walk out empty handed, although it's been a while since I bought a gun at a gun show. That is not necessarily a function of no deals...mostly a fuction of limited funds on my part.
I spend my money on primers, powder, gun parts/accessories, reloading accesories, occasionally loaded ammo...
I have two on the schedule for the next two weekends.