Post #785476 by tikiskip on Thu, Mar 29, 2018 5:44 PM

"I'm sure it would have been no problem for the vendors to get someone to pass them a cocktail or two!"

I think you miss the point.
it's not about a free drink, it's about saying thanks for spending your weekend here vending and missing all of Hukilau.

My wife and I paid for tickets and then paid for a vending spot, plus travel and hotel room.
Now this was our choice and we did make money would say we did in the top five as far as money goes.
With that said we MAY have broke even, as in no profit.

So what we thought we would get out of the vending was money to see at least SOME of the event.
But the hours are so long to vend you really are just paying to be a spectacle at the show.
In fact people pay extra to get in to the vendors early.

The vendors at least when I went were treated like second class citizens.
Vendors who paid to be there, not the vendors that get a free ride to vend there for one day.

If you have to travel to Hukilau to vend, At least back then.
Vending at Hukilau was a suckers bet.

And I like Hukilau, just not vending there.
Maybe it has changed, I hope so cuz it needed to.