I just did a fair today that was the absolute worse fair I have ever seen let alone participated in.
It was a fundraiser for an Alumni thing. Anyways, they charged $40 for the space and selling it as a shop til you drop kind of fair.
What they didn't tell anyone was the reason this was happening was because they had scheduled a reunion at the Elks lodge and no one was coming. The Elks would not return their deposit so they held this fair to get their money back. No problem right? Win/Win situation.
Well, when we got there to set up at noon no one told us who was in charge. We had to find her. As it was there were only 15 of us that were participating. Never did she look at us just told us to set up where ever we wanted. Ummmmmmm ok LOL The fair was to run from 1-5 with no early breakdowns. So then one o'clock comes and no one is there, 1:30 and nothing, 2:00 we were starting to shop at each others booth because we had nothing to do since no one was there. Well, then we heard what happened. ::sigh:: When they advertised the fair on tv and in the newspaper they put that the fair was yesterday!!!!!!!! So it's no wonder no one was there.......they didn't know about it!!!! We were so upset. The fair was an hour away to begin with and we had to donate a prize as well as pay $40? Basically she ended up with a mutiny on her hands. We went up to her and told her how disappointed we were. Even if she had make a mistake the least she could have done was called us and let us decide if we still wanted to participate because the chances are that no one will be there. And then it happend. One of the women said she was stopping payment on her check. (I don't if I would pay $25 to stop a $40 check) But then someone else said they should do something and she did. She gave us back half our money. Some tried also to get back their raffle item since no tickets were being sold and they were told they couldn't have it. So we were done by 3:30 everyone had left. I did get one $45 dollar order from one of the vendors but that was it. What a waste of a day really
It was a fundraiser for an Alumni thing. Anyways, they charged $40 for the space and selling it as a shop til you drop kind of fair.
What they didn't tell anyone was the reason this was happening was because they had scheduled a reunion at the Elks lodge and no one was coming. The Elks would not return their deposit so they held this fair to get their money back. No problem right? Win/Win situation.
Well, when we got there to set up at noon no one told us who was in charge. We had to find her. As it was there were only 15 of us that were participating. Never did she look at us just told us to set up where ever we wanted. Ummmmmmm ok LOL The fair was to run from 1-5 with no early breakdowns. So then one o'clock comes and no one is there, 1:30 and nothing, 2:00 we were starting to shop at each others booth because we had nothing to do since no one was there. Well, then we heard what happened. ::sigh:: When they advertised the fair on tv and in the newspaper they put that the fair was yesterday!!!!!!!! So it's no wonder no one was there.......they didn't know about it!!!! We were so upset. The fair was an hour away to begin with and we had to donate a prize as well as pay $40? Basically she ended up with a mutiny on her hands. We went up to her and told her how disappointed we were. Even if she had make a mistake the least she could have done was called us and let us decide if we still wanted to participate because the chances are that no one will be there. And then it happend. One of the women said she was stopping payment on her check. (I don't if I would pay $25 to stop a $40 check) But then someone else said they should do something and she did. She gave us back half our money. Some tried also to get back their raffle item since no tickets were being sold and they were told they couldn't have it. So we were done by 3:30 everyone had left. I did get one $45 dollar order from one of the vendors but that was it. What a waste of a day really
