Post #90773 by suburbanpagan on Wed, May 12, 2004 10:53 AM

Some of us vendors ( I only call myself that because I was peddling my tikis on this one day a year) were concerned about the "swap meet" quality of some of the vendors. This one guy, at the end of Sunday, realizing he had nothing of value to this group of people, was trying to trade me some of his swap meet crap a la "these are very tiki" cheap sunglasses and "Paris Hilton made these popular" baseball caps! WHAT? What does that have to do with tiki? Some of us believe that the vendors should be selling what they personally create not what they resell at flea markets. Personally, I don't care if it's resale stuff as long as the people who are selling it are there because of the love of the event and not just looking to cash in!
I'm not in it for the money! God knows I gave away as much stuff as I sold because I am just interested in spreading the cause and paying for my room in the process! I would just like to see that the vending area is not watered down or cheapened by "non-believers"!
All in all, my countdown clock is set to 362 days and counting till Tiki Oasis 5!