Keith Beck
10-30-2006, 12:20 PM
This was our second year setting up a booth at the Apple-Scrapple festival in Bridgeville, DE. For those that have never had the pleasure of enjoying the east coast delicacy called Scrapple, you don't know what you're missing. http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowbiggrin.gif
I digress... As I mentioned, this was our second year attending the show. It rained all day last year, so the number of shoppers was pretty low. This year, the weather was perfect and from what I hear, there were around 30,000 visitors.
We mostly sell pens and other small turned objects, although I did bring the three cutting boards I made and actually sold one of them. I brought all the bowls I've turned over the years and although they did receive a lot of nice comments, no one bought any. My brother brought a few mallets he's turned with the same result. I never have much luck selling the bowls. People don't want to pay the money it takes to make it worth all the time I spent making one. I'd rather give them as gifts than sell underprice them.
All in all, we did pretty well (not enough to retire on unfortunately http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowcry.gif), but most of our sales came later in the day as closing time neared. Antler pens were probably our best sellers. I made several perfume atomizers because I figured they'd go over well with all the women that tend to visit these shows, but I only sold one. You can try to predict what will sell the best, but you just never know how it's going to turn out.
I think for the next show, we'll diversify even more and bring some trivets and other small items that can be made quickly with a good return on investment.
Here's a few pictures:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/ldoforcno/DSC00174.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/ldoforcno/DSC00175.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/ldoforcno/DSC00176.jpg
Thanks for looking.
Keith
I digress... As I mentioned, this was our second year attending the show. It rained all day last year, so the number of shoppers was pretty low. This year, the weather was perfect and from what I hear, there were around 30,000 visitors.
We mostly sell pens and other small turned objects, although I did bring the three cutting boards I made and actually sold one of them. I brought all the bowls I've turned over the years and although they did receive a lot of nice comments, no one bought any. My brother brought a few mallets he's turned with the same result. I never have much luck selling the bowls. People don't want to pay the money it takes to make it worth all the time I spent making one. I'd rather give them as gifts than sell underprice them.
All in all, we did pretty well (not enough to retire on unfortunately http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowcry.gif), but most of our sales came later in the day as closing time neared. Antler pens were probably our best sellers. I made several perfume atomizers because I figured they'd go over well with all the women that tend to visit these shows, but I only sold one. You can try to predict what will sell the best, but you just never know how it's going to turn out.
I think for the next show, we'll diversify even more and bring some trivets and other small items that can be made quickly with a good return on investment.
Here's a few pictures:
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/ldoforcno/DSC00174.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/ldoforcno/DSC00175.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/ldoforcno/DSC00176.jpg
Thanks for looking.
Keith