Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:11 pm
I'm seriously considering drastically downsizing all the crap I've accumulated, and I'm researching the best way to do it. The tabletop sales seem like a most splendid idea.
Tabletop sales have usually worked for me, far better than the bring and buys or internet sales. You get the chance to haggle with the customer and he/she gets to see the tat up close. There’s the hassle of getting there and set up, but generally it’s well worth it.
Thank you. I was a bit put off by the Table Sale scrum at Vap last year, so that's just what I was hoping to hear.
It sounds like an ideal way of selling stuff, but I imagine it must be difficult to administer. I'm looking forward to seeing how it runs at Vap this year without the distraction of two bomb/fire evacuations. And then I'll have to find one down south?
I haven’t done Vap, it looked like a tough call being in the third floor. Peterborough was good, both in organisation and sales. Battleground similarly. But it’s not hard to organise and clubs would probably prefer it to the usual B&B.
From my experience there’s always a scrum at the start, the first ten minutes are frantic, then it settles down. At the very end of your hour there will be one person who comes up and asks after the one thing he was ogling for ten minutes at the start and which you sold 12 minutes after the start.
A trolley is a useful thing. And go to the loo before you start, you know what you’re like.
levied troop wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:22 am
I haven’t done Vap, it looked like a tough call being in the third floor. Peterborough was good, both in organisation and sales. Battleground similarly. But it’s not hard to organise and clubs would probably prefer it to the usual B&B.
From my experience there’s always a scrum at the start, the first ten minutes are frantic, then it settles down. At the very end of your hour there will be one person who comes up and asks after the one thing he was ogling for ten minutes at the start and which you sold 12 minutes after the start.
A trolley is a useful thing. And go to the loo before you start, you know what you’re like.
levied troop wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:22 am
I haven’t done Vap, it looked like a tough call being in the third floor. Peterborough was good, both in organisation and sales. Battleground similarly. But it’s not hard to organise and clubs would probably prefer it to the usual B&B.
From my experience there’s always a scrum at the start, the first ten minutes are frantic, then it settles down. At the very end of your hour there will be one person who comes up and asks after the one thing he was ogling for ten minutes at the start and which you sold 12 minutes after the start.
A trolley is a useful thing. And go to the loo before you start, you know what you’re like.
Thank you, again.
I shall invest in a trolley (good point about the other matter).
levied troop wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:22 am
And go to the loo before you start, you know what you’re like.
Given the average age of LAW members, I think that's sound advice for all of us - regardless of whether or not we have a table-full of crap to sell.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
goat major wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 9:05 pm
Are you going to try to sell those goblins back to that bloke who bought them off you 2 years ago and then resold them back to you last year ?
