I ran a blogshop in case you are a new reader and don't know, my blogshop is call Rêveur Belle. For months it has been a struggle for me to juggle both work, social life and a 'business'. And when my friend approached me one day to asked if I am interested to run a stall with her at a flea market over a weekend, I said yes.
Alot of preparations went into the event, both for my friend and I and when the BIG DAY came, we huffed and puffed to load our goods into my friend's MPV. We arrived early on the first day but it looks like there were already some stall owners who came at 6 am just to get a good location (whatever it may be).
Instead of writing about the entire experience, I just want to summarize that it was a tedious experience, one that my friend and I will not want to return to and she said good riddance to the place when we drove off.
Basically there was nothing good to say, I can tell you all the bad. The place itself is in a carpark and there are no air-conditioning (Hello!!! here's Singapore where nobody shops in non-airconditioned places), the place was not quite known to those who doesn't drive and if you arrived by public transport, you would not have known where we were since there was no publicity at all. And the organizer is a young lady who had this black face throughout the entire 2 days and she did pass by the shop at the end of the 2nd day, not smiling, not caring how you fare and who she can make the next flea a better experience. So if anyone wanted to run a stall there next time, I would simple say FORGET IT!
Since then, I have checked out 2 more locations where there are flea market to see how succesful they are and both of these flea markets are in air-conditioned location and one of the location really surprised me with so much crowd when I was expecting a ghost town since it is in the central business district. So, who knows, we may just turn up in another better location to set up shop again. Will keep you posted.
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