You may not buy below Greysheet Bid, but you won't pay Redbook like everyone else. Go on a weekday. Call in sick to your exploitative capitalist overlords if you have to, but be there when the public isn't. On the last day, deals are good, also. If you go the last day, remind them of meeting you on the first day.
Clubs get a free table.
As a Club Rep, you get a photo-ID and a ribbon. As an ANA Member you get a ribbon. Committee chairs get ribbons. Speakers get ribbons. Exhibitors and Judges get photo-ID and ribbons.