I had barely got in the door at the Fair this morning, before I was set upon by the woman who had the stall next door who accused me of stealing half her stall! She had taken both the chairs between our stalls and pushed her tables up to mine, so I had nowhere to sit (except out in the aisle, which was busy with customers of course). I just told her that my name had been on those tables, I hadn't moved anything and I was where I was designated to be.
It then got worse, as I told the organiser's husband I was sorry I was sat out in the aisle but next door had moved her tables so I had no choice. He went off to tell his wife (I'd not mentioned it earlier as she was obviously very busy). Anyway, then she came up to me and said she had told the Cowbag that she was where she was supposed to be and told me to move my quilts (on old clothes horses) out a bit and sit in the space. I hadn't used all of the space between me and the other side as I thought it was theirs. Then it all hit me and the nice next door stand folk noticed me cracking up and said to come round the corner with them. Her mum got me tea and daughter went to tell Cowbag that she had upset me, as I was recently widowed and already finding the first Fair back there without Keith a real challenge.
Cowbag later came up and give her her due, apologised, but as Keith's mum used to say, you can't cut my throat and put a sticking plaster on it.
On top of all that, I sold just three items, and am not even half way to covering my pitch fee. People were just out for the day, not to spend any money. The Damnation Quilt was the first thing to go though, so at least I don't have that nagging me by its presence.
I will confess to having slugged down a glass of wine the moment the cats were fed, as I am just absolutely in pieces at the moment. I will be blardy glad when it is Monday. Car started 2nd go this morning. Hope it still obliges tomorrow . . .
Oh no! People can be so mean. I'm so sorry this happened, was hoping for a positive fair experience. Maybe eBay is the way to go forward? Wine was needed and well deserved btw.
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Sorry to hear you're having such an awful and disappointing time. Sending a hug x
ReplyDeleteHow rotten for you but unfortunately, there’s always one! I used to do the vintage fairs and generally everyone was ok but now and again, you’d get the odd, ‘difficult’ stallholder.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know what it is with people but I honestly think they’ve got worse in recent times. I had a really nasty customer only recently, I sold some fabric and I always put in freebies and go above and beyond! It was a selection of Christmas fabrics and I’d included some red and green gingham which I thought would work well with the other pieces. She objected…and left a negative feedback without even contacting me. When I politely said that she should’ve contacted me, she gave me a gobful and refused my offer to send something more. She was so nasty that it really upset me.
I think you were very grave to venture out alone. Hopefully, you can stall in a different place next time? Sending you good wishes. 😁