Jim Policastro posted:Larry Sr. posted:When the show opened, we all went in together. So the sellers were unpacking as the buyers were moving in the aisles. Some folks called this a "shotgun start".
Hot Water, the sellers probably will want to shoot me , but I think that is a cool and fun way to start something as big as that meet.
Be like a NASCAR Race.lol
Larry
Larry,
Then, you would have really loved it a few years before that.
At one time there were no assigned tables. At the bell, prospective sellers would make a mad dash to grab a table by placing a box on it, while buyers were also streaming in. The quickest got the best tables. It was only the blue hall back then.
Jim
I have many years of flea market experience while living in Memphis, and I can tell you unassigned tables suck! And so do shotgun starts! That's when you are so busy unpacking and setting up that you aren't paying attention to legitimate buyers, and that's also when you would "lose" stuff because you were so distracted. Hopefully, theft isn't much of an issue at this show, but it was in the flea market! And in that market, the tables weren't even staged, you had to go pull yours off a tall stack and carry to your location within the buildings. That's when I dropped a 60lb table on my big toe - that didn't end well....
Glad to hear they're doing things right at York!
