Getting eBay Live 2007 ready to open

EBay Live 2007 is opening its doors today at the Boston convention center in South Boston. This year’s event is reportedly drawing about 8,000 visitors, far less than the 16,000 who went to eBay live in in Las Vegas last year. However, the downsizing should be beneficial to visitors since the Las Vegas event was too crowded, at times seemingly dangerously so.

Here are some pictures from yesterday, when workers were busy setting up booths and otherwise getting the place ready for the onslaught.

Getting the lobby area all nice:

Workers setting up the lobby area for eBay Live 2007 at the Boston Convention Center

A small part of the exhibit floor, the so-called solutions expo:

The Solutions Expo at eBay Live 2007. The photograph shows only small part of the exhibition floor.

Visitors to eBay Live could end up with nothing more than the proverbial t-shirt:

Photograph of eBy's store at eBy Live 2007 in Boston

Relevant flags and banners as well as a chimney made useful outside of the convention center:
eBay Live banners outside the Boston convention center in June 2007