Thanks Minz, the past week has turned up a lot of people who are of the same mind and, funnily enough, was sparked by a woman who sparked a lot of motivation when she said innocently, "Oh I know the woman who runs that market. You're paying for her kids' school fees.." And this is the attitude that is going around. Need money? Set up a market and charge $$$. And that business only works because people aren't questioning it. They're blindly paying the money. Although I have heard that some exxy markets are experiencing a downturn atm.
And, to be honest, that's what I think this is about - as Lilly pointed out - that it's simply a manner of people taking advantage of an opportunity as a money making scheme as opposed to a community initiative. Thankfully, I'm in the process of rectifying this at the moment with others who are equally annoyed with the situation. After all, why should I have to increase my prices to cop someone else's inflated fee schedule?
Markets can be specific and not specialist. For example, baby/mother markets ask for items that are directly related to general baby/mothercare in that this description covers an array of things that appeal to a wide population as opposed to items that are aimed at a particular section. As I said before, I'm not complaining about specialist markets who, for example, cater to the large retail sector; eg. Bowerbird Bazaar. I'm referring to community grassroots markets with stall and shade.
$130 is not $70.
Even primary school fetes are joining in on the fun. There's a primary school near the city who have a selection criteria for their twilight fete and a $110 stall fee
with a donation to be made to the school for participation. I mean...come on...there's something wrong here, surely!
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It reminds me of the days here in Melbourne when people were charging 3.00 for a coffee because the cafe down the road were charging that. The difference which they failed to see what that down the rd it was made by a trained barista and what they were was low end a bakery using instant coffee and boiling up a jug of milk!
I'm happy to pay $1500 for a double stall for an event (3 days, well marketed, quality stall holders...) but would not pay $150 for a half day market run by Mrs Betty Smith that thinks it's so easy and TRENDY.
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Yes! This is what I'm getting at. And these other small operators who are nothing more than opportunists are muddying the waters by charging top dollar for a vastly inferior product.
Perhaps I should thank them because it's motivated me to start my own market and do so at a FAIR price.
Thanks for all the feedback!
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