Annual Fleamarket and Hamfest
9.00 AM To Noon
"Bring & Buy"
We've introduced a new concept to help Hams who only have one or two items to sell. People like to come to our hamfest
and look around and have a good time. Many don't wish to rent a table
when they might only have 1 or 2 items for sale or they simply do not want
to sit there all morning dealing with the endless stream of people asking the
same questions over and over again.
Solution:
The club operated Bring-and-Buy table.
Here's how it works….
You
don't rent a table but you come to the hamfest as a
buyer. You also bring your 1 or 2 items and go to the LARC table. We will take the
item(s) and fill out a for-sale card that describes the item and notes your asking
price. It will cost you a loonie ($1) to leave your
item on the club table. When the item sells, you will pay us 5% as a
commission. If your item does not sell,
you pick it up at the end of the hamfest and the only
cost to you was the $1 that you left earlier in the day.
For
example: If you asked us to sell your mobile radio, you might put a $200 price
tag on the unit. You left a dollar behind as payment. When we sold your radio,
we keep a total of 5% which is $10. Since you already paid a buck, we
only keep $9 giving you back $191.00.
The
rules are simple:
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We are only
willing to sell one or two items per person. We are not trying to displace our
normal table rentals.
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It costs a
dollar per item to have it placed on our table
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We will retain 5%
as a sales commission when the item sells.
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Please be
reasonable with your pricing; it doesn’t do either of us any good if you are
asking an extremely high price for boat anchors. Radioworld
is a good place to compare prices because they have both a new and used section
on their webpage.