Sites like wherehshallwego and streetlife seem to get lots of adverts for
craft or collectors fairs etc in them, and I often wonder if people dogo to
these.
One of the problems with having physical fairs these days is the escalating
costs of hiring the venue and the tables and if power is needed it costs an
arm and a leg, health and saftety, places to park etc.
This seems to be many of the issues.
I mean, I had a chat with thelocal librarylast week and they told me that
the council holls joined to many libraries had been takenaway from them for
free use and now they have to pay the going rate from their budget. This has
resulted in many free events put on, say book fairs where the library had a
free stand and the room was discounted, has just stopped happening.
Brian

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Jim Lesurf wrote:
I'm afraid all this sort of thing has gone to Ebay these days.
Something my brother won't accept either. ;-)

I can understand why professional second-hand book dealers use the net,
ebay, etc. But what seems strange is that they now neglect simply
enabling the *added* custom which they could still get simply by making
their contact info available for people who want to buy/sell by other
means.

As your comment confirms, I'm not the only person who'd buy that way if
they could be bothered to realise it.

Similarly, their attending fairs, jumbles, etc, make sense. But it seems
odd for them to then fail to allow potential customers to buy from them
via post, and advertising their contact details, etc, on their websites.
Again I can see why the organisers of *fairs* don't want the dealers to
bypass them, but why don't the dealers make their contact details
available by other means? Having your own website is cheap and easy
enough these days.

My brother's passion is models. Things like Dinky toys, etc. The model
club he belongs to has just held their last fair. Despite advertising it
in the local press etc, not enough attended it to cover the costs - a
trend which has been happening over the last few years.

Is it just lazyness, or a lack of thought, I wonder? Or do they find it
easier to dodge tax this way, maybe?

I dunno. You'd have to see some figures of Ebay sales versus the rest.
Ebay is simply such a convenient way to buy and sell these days.

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