The booth we rented faced a discount tool and general merchandise seller that rents the entire center of the isle. We thought that this would be a good thing, as it would draw people to our area. This turned out to be true but we noted that the men would always look to the tools as they walked by and the women were the only ones that would look into our booth. We put up both strobe and rope lights and this drew the men to looking.
We spent the first weekend fixing up our booth. We stapled sheets to the tables and walls to give them some personality (also much faster and not as permanent as paint). We mounted a shelf on each side, ran strings across the top and put up lattice across the back. The booth turned out to look pretty good even if I do say so myself. After pricing and stocking we were ready to open on the second weekend.
Friday is typically a very slow day at this flea market; most venders use this day as a workday. We did about $50.00 in sales though a lot of that was to other dealers. This bothers some people but green is green if you get my drift. Saturday and Sunday were better with sales increasing each day...people were finding us this is a good thing.
We were now two weeks into our booth rent and looking forward to a big weekend of sales. Well sales were brisk and we did quite well. There were to be some changes. The way our booth was arranged it made it quite crowded with both of us working with customers. We decided that the next weekend I would rent two outside tables and try to sell some of the bigger items like the lawn equipment, stereo and cameras, men stuff so to speak. Did I mention that during the third week we were offered and accepted a summer job in Texas with an arrival time less than one month out? The third week went very well I actually outsold my wife outside but to be fair I sold some higher dollar items she was actually busier than I was.
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