The money sits on the tables
Florida Gun Shows brings its Miami show to the Miami-Dade Fairgrounds, 10901 SW 24th St, on 7 and 8 November 2026. The venue board books Arnold Hall, Reilly Coliseum and the Fair Expo Grille for those two days.
The promoter's exhibitor page prices a standard 8-foot table at $130 for an aisle position and $140 against a wall.
Miami carries 500 tables in the promoter's market list. Five hundred aisle positions at $130 total $65,000. The same count at the wall rate totals $70,000. The wall step is worth $5,000 across that floor, which is 7.69 percent of the aisle pool.
The premium buys a position the promoter will not promise
The exhibitor page states that wall tables are not guaranteed. The same page says show management gives its best effort on the placement a vendor requests, does not promise it, and may change a placement at any time before the vendor arrives to set up.
The $10 step prices a preference, and the vendor carries the risk of the change. Read as a term set, the floor prices the position, keeps the right to move it, and collects either way.
The gate publishes a price and no volume
Admission is $17.00 and sells at the door only. A ticket covers one day, so a two-day visit costs $34.00. Children 12 and under enter free.
The promoter publishes no attendance figure. The home page, the Miami event page, the exhibitor page and the FAQ carry no headcount and no prior edition's gate.
Without a headcount the gate yields no revenue per visitor and no share a venue could write into an agreement. The price is published and the volume is not.
The commitment line is 24 October
The cancellation ladder runs in four steps. A cancellation that reaches the promoter fourteen days out carries no fee. One received inside two weeks carries 50 percent of table fees. One received on the Friday or Saturday of the show carries 100 percent. A no-call no-show carries 100 percent and forfeits the rolling deposit on file.
Half of a $130 table is $65. Across 500 aisle tables the inside-two-weeks exposure is $32,500.
Saturday 24 October 2026 sits fourteen days before the show opens. On that date the vendor's money becomes committed.
Set the block cut-off on the vendor's refund line. Before it the table count can still fall. After it the count is what the floor trades.
Badges are the only published headcount
The badge rule gives two badges with the first table and one more with every additional table.
A floor of 500 vendors holding one table each would carry 1,000 badges. A single vendor holding the whole floor would carry 501.
At the 1,000-badge ceiling and two nights each, the weekend carries 2,000 room nights. Divided across that ceiling, the $65,000 table pool is $32.50 per room night.
That ratio measures the promoter's floor money against the room nights its own attendance rule puts on the calendar. It is the return figure a property can place beside its own weekend revenue.
What the floor returns to the rooms
The weekend returns table money, a bounded badge count and two compelled nights. It returns no gate volume, and it carries no published hotel, rate, block or cut-off.
A property holding rooms is the party that publishes terms here. The promoter's page shows the structure: the position is priced, the premium is unguaranteed, the refund date is named, the full fee falls inside the show week, and attendance is required on both days.
The concession available to a property on this floor is the placement itself, held from Friday 6 November to Sunday 8 November and released at the 5:00 p.m. close.
The room rate is the property's own price. No third party sets the room line for this weekend.
The record
Published: 500 tables, $130 aisle, $140 wall, wall unguaranteed, the two-badge rule, the four-step ladder, 24 October 2026, $17 at the door, and 15 show hours across the two days.
Unpublished: attendance, vendor count, hotel, rate, block and cut-off.
A return figure for this floor rests on the table pool and the badge rule. Both are the promoter's own numbers, and both sit on one page.