pamperedthorpe
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This is a bit of a rant, so sorry in advance! :blushing:
Jen and I had a show last night with someone who'd bought the rectangular baker at a past show and "wanted loads of stuff" so booked a show. We turned up at her place at 7 for 7.30, and discovered that it was practically a mansion - big long drive, four cars, three floors, loads of bedrooms, cavernous kitchen etc. As we walked in, the host said to us "I thought you could set up in the kitchen, as the candle lady is in the lounge, and there's jewellery too. I thought it was best to get all the shows out of the way in one go, so there's no need for you to do all your jargon, just do the cooking."
It turns out she'd pre-warned the person from PartyLite (who's just starting out and is presumably desperate for bookings) that we were doing a show too, but obviously didn't tell us 'cos we probably would have cancelled it. Jen was brilliant and just said "Well, it's ok with us, but obviously you won't get as many points to spend from a smaller show."
It turned out that, despite agreeing 7.30 with the host, she'd told people to come for 8 so I had everything ready to cook really early. Thankfully, we managed to talk the host into letting us do our cooking demo first, but we just did the recipe and plugged SW and a couple more items. In the end, it just scraped a qualifying show at £130 (we need £125 / $250 for it to qualify), but the candle lady hardly sold anything. At least we got another booking out of it.
I know this happened to someone else on Chef Success recently, and if we'd not read about it on here first I don't know what we would have done. So, thanks Chef Success for helping us keep a cool head!
Jen and I had a show last night with someone who'd bought the rectangular baker at a past show and "wanted loads of stuff" so booked a show. We turned up at her place at 7 for 7.30, and discovered that it was practically a mansion - big long drive, four cars, three floors, loads of bedrooms, cavernous kitchen etc. As we walked in, the host said to us "I thought you could set up in the kitchen, as the candle lady is in the lounge, and there's jewellery too. I thought it was best to get all the shows out of the way in one go, so there's no need for you to do all your jargon, just do the cooking."
It turns out she'd pre-warned the person from PartyLite (who's just starting out and is presumably desperate for bookings) that we were doing a show too, but obviously didn't tell us 'cos we probably would have cancelled it. Jen was brilliant and just said "Well, it's ok with us, but obviously you won't get as many points to spend from a smaller show."
It turned out that, despite agreeing 7.30 with the host, she'd told people to come for 8 so I had everything ready to cook really early. Thankfully, we managed to talk the host into letting us do our cooking demo first, but we just did the recipe and plugged SW and a couple more items. In the end, it just scraped a qualifying show at £130 (we need £125 / $250 for it to qualify), but the candle lady hardly sold anything. At least we got another booking out of it.
I know this happened to someone else on Chef Success recently, and if we'd not read about it on here first I don't know what we would have done. So, thanks Chef Success for helping us keep a cool head!
