skipp025 wrote:
>
> > "Paul Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Skipp,
> > How would inflating the prices be a "good" thing?
>
> It's probably not a good thing. From what I understand it was
> done to discourage people from overkill hogging of space when
> the flea market was greatly impacted. Many of us know people
> who rent the extra spaces just to have the ticket to get in
> early and have a parking place for the extra cars/trucks.
When you have empty spaces, how is that harming anything? It makes
little difference to me if I'm walking by a car sitting there or a space
with nothing on it. Let those people pay 15 times the price for a
parking space If it means the Hamvention will be around longer (make
more money). Better yet: Make a premium parking space. Make the actual
flea market space smaller if they can't fill the rest with parking.
The closer people park they more they will be ABLE to buy.
> Small item hams were given a chance to sell at the single
> space price. If you needed more than one space, you are/were
> not considered a small item or one time item person... but
> a dealer as the majority are/were.
It is nearly technically impossible to sell in one space according to
their own rules. Your tables cannot exceed the 'parking space' into the
isle. That means with one space you have to drive in, unload, then move
your car, then reverse the process after the event OR sell out of your
trunk (literally). Few cars are small enough to put a table behind and
stay inside the lines. A few years ago, we were told about a table which
was 2 INCHES into the isle (but, in all fairness that may be FD
requirements.) Most people have more items to sell than that -
especially if they expect to recoup their $70 back. Maybe that is why
eBay has taken so many items from Dayton - their fees are less to sell -
even if you pay the shipping yourself.
Joe M.
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