Hello~~~
About more than a year ago, me and baby organised a flea market event. I only briefly mention it because it didnt really turn out well. We met some unreasonable vendors. There were nice ones but some were really mean!!!! Those nice ones still contacted us for more events because they feel that we're good leh!
So on the day, the crowd didnt turn out well and some vendors approached us for a refund?! Nb please! They complained we did not make effort to publicise for our event thats why there was no crowd? They're accusing us of not doing our part because they cant see it ?!!! :( And just because they didnt make money they expect us to pay them back. My friends opened a booth too and they did make money?! Okay la the thing is when you want to do a business, confirm got risk of not making money. When me and baby organise the event, there will also be a risk of losing money right? But we went ahead and tried our best. If we lose money then is really bo bian at least we tried.
After the event, I was really sad! How can the vendors be so unreasonable? My confidence dropped to ZERO after that :'( I can still remember my dad consoling me in the middle of the night because i was really upset :( From then on, I decided never to organise a flea anymore. The profits are totally not worth our efforts. I DONT EVEN WANT TO MENTION ABOUT THE EVENT ANYMORE!
But then two weeks ago, I visisted this flea event. And the crowd was worst and there wasnt a single shopper except baby and me. But I dont see the vendors complaining. The event only had about 20 stalls? We had 60-70 if I didnt remember wrongly! Some more its our first time organising the event?!!!!
Confidence boost! :P Come to think of it now ah, I think our event turned out well. For first timers like us, we managed to get 60-70 vendors plus there was crowd coming in after 4plus? I'm really tempted to organise another event again. But there's this phobia! HAHAHA and the amount of work we have to do before the event is crazy :O