Our guild show is free. We have over 100 members in our guild and over 200 quilts in our show. We rent a church gym for two days and they just doubled our rent this year to $1500. We do an opportunity quilt which we raffle to help offset some of our cost. Our mission is to inspire others.
That said, I have paid up to $3.00 for other quilt show around here that don't begin to compete with ours, but it is nice to see what others are doing. I don't mind the $3.00 if I can walk away with at least one or two new ideas or techniques. Ten dollars is a bit much.