On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:22:21 -0500, "Pat Brennan"
wrote:
I just got a mailing from New York and they are introducing new rules which
they hope will help vendors. One rule prohibits bottom feeding pricing and
another prohibits Sunday afternoon dumping. The mailing is just about as
adamant as it can be without crossing the price fixing line. I have always
though trying to control a commodity's price was never easy and in most
cases not a good idea. At least the show's board recognized problems and
acted in a mater they felt was best for the show and its vendors. We will
see.

All you guys out there involved in putting on these shows need to be
watching closely to make sure your show remands viable for the number and
type of vendors it involves or the society desires. Creative solutions are
going to be required and show boards are facing hard decisions.
Pat

Denver acts as vendor for the Spring show in March and uses that for a
fund raiser. The prior year we paid the gardens over $800 as their
25% take on profits after sales. This year it was under $300. One of
the problems this year has been the Gardens keep miss printing our
show dates. So that we have the Second Weekend in March and in
October. They published this fall show as the 3rd weekend. All we
need is a Bronco game or a Snow storm and we are out the entire
commission.

We used to drop prices on Sunday afternoon - it increased traffic...
but it got so people often waited for Sunday afternoon to buy. This
year we found a local vendor to front for us. We did not take
discounts because he took back what we could not sell. So we had a
better selection on Sunday and nothing looked Shop-worn. He claimed
he was getting the phone calls - he might as well be our wholesaler.
Have his tags in the plants, etc.
SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids