Well ACML is the Anime Convention Mailing List, it’s for staff (that is the upper level staff) of anime conventions to discuss issues related to running a Con… Everything from How Con X does activity Y to trends and issues…
Now to start I should say this is all second hand (since I personally haven’t seen Jlist do anything), but a rep for one of the Cons on the list (I don’t remember which off the top of my head) retold a story about Jlist staffers having caused quite a fuss by selling games to minors twice in the same day at their Con and that they were thinking about banning Jlist from ever coming back as a dealer over it. This came up in the first place due to a discussion on keeping minors from having access to materials that they shouldn’t be legally purchasing and the penalties to the Con when it happens. Well once that story came out about a dozen other conventions told similiar tales about Jlist. It pretty much sounded like Jlist had no redeeming qualities at anime conventions at least and it came up for debate on the list if they should be banned across the board (The ACML maintains a list of ‘dishonest vendors’). In the end it seemed to be that theyed agree on a ‘wait & see’ stance for now.
The whole reason for the fuss is due to the legalities of the convention bussiness and that we are the first ones held responsible, not the indivual dealer. This sparked a fairly big debate among staff at my convention because we are meant to be a ‘family accessible’ Con. Though I had suggested we might want to try inviting some vendors such as PP/Jlist, so I took a good hit from having to defend them when I’ve never been to a convention they have been at.
Anyways that’s the story…