Events

Well we can blame what we like but I think there are an awful lot of trades people who are getting fed up with people asking ridiculours sums of money for tables and the foot fall being poor.  Went to one today, fortunately it was 10% of sale, firstly it was in the middle of nowhere so no passing customers and the amount of customers that came through the door was very very poor.  I think we are getting to a time when more and more traders are going to refuse to pay large sums out for tables, at the end of the day we are there to earn money, the customers are extremely picky and not easy to please and the organisers are going to find themselves struggling to get people to take tables.  If you read this and wonder, it is not unusual for even a school to ask £40-£50 for just three or four hours, the larger events can ask anyting from £80 to £250 or more for one day as they feel there is such a potential of customers through the door, the trouble is the markets have completely changed and people are not spending, and do not have the disposable income they had some five years ago.