Just a thought, Maybe the slowness is because with the last year and a half of hype and price gouging and folks buying everything up they are either on a leash from their spouse on getting anything else or they ran out of room in their house to hoard their purchases.
On a serious not I feel the shows slowness is due to the circus environment the last almost 2 years along with the people taking extreme advantage of a crisis (along with people that bought out of emotions paying way to much rather than calling them in it) people are just tired of all the bull. JMHO!
A couple comments on what I read skimming this thread from a dealers prespective.
We have to asentertainment know nothing and start from the basics when educating customers. We normally dont know you from Adam, so we have to gauge your knowledge level as we go.
Pricing is a double edge sword. Some folks WILL NOT buy for any reason if dont make them feel like they won negotiating. So do you put the tag high and haggle your way down to accommodate the customer? If you do that then other folks will walk by complaining about the price.
If you start at internet prices but wont budge you loose sales by not making the customer feel like they are the worlds best haggles and you lose sales.
Bottom line is there is absolutely no blanket answer. The only way to make folks happy is to look in your crystal ball, see what kind of person they are, and adjust the prices on every price tag, in the 5 seconds you see them turn to head to your booth.
Vendors dont getva penny of you addmission money. You have to look at admission and parking as entertainment price alone or dont bother going. You dont go to the movies and expect the cost of the ticket to come off of popcorn prices do you? And that money all goes to the movie theater.
Well put. I have no doubt making people feel like they "won" is the trick and some people have some unreasonable thresholds for their winning...
Or you can just put a set price on everything and know your the lowest guy in the room and let the good deal and item sell itself. That always worked well for me. Then people don't think your a used car salesman type of seller. "See a sucker coming from a mile away"A couple comments on what I read skimming this thread from a dealers prespective.
We have to asentertainment know nothing and start from the basics when educating customers. We normally dont know you from Adam, so we have to gauge your knowledge level as we go.
Pricing is a double edge sword. Some folks WILL NOT buy for any reason if dont make them feel like they won negotiating. So do you put the tag high and haggle your way down to accommodate the customer? If you do that then other folks will walk by complaining about the price.
If you start at internet prices but wont budge you loose sales by not making the customer feel like they are the worlds best haggles and you lose sales.
Bottom line is there is absolutely no blanket answer. The only way to make folks happy is to look in your crystal ball, see what kind of person they are, and adjust the prices on every price tag, in the 5 seconds you see them turn to head to your booth.
Vendors dont getva penny of you addmission money. You have to look at admission and parking as entertainment price alone or dont bother going. You dont go to the movies and expect the cost of the ticket to come off of popcorn prices do you? And that money all goes to the movie theater.
Or you can just put a set price on everything and know your the lowest guy in the room and let the good deal and item sell itself. That always worked well for me. Then people don't think your a used car salesman type of seller. "See a sucker coming from a mile away"
I AM NOT SAYING YOU ARE LIKE THAT. I LIKE YOU. But some 1500 dealers ARE like that. For me I've always known there is a group of slime ball dealers but I've really noticed the lot had increased during these Obama years. Everyone is trying to get one up on the next guy. Sellers on customers and customers on sellers. The world is changing.
i saw and found lots of great deals at the show. I'm out of the loop now on some stuff but I stay as educated of a buyer as I can be ad when I know I see a good deal I snatch it.
A couple comments on what I read skimming this thread from a dealers prespective.
We have to asentertainment know nothing and start from the basics when educating customers. We normally dont know you from Adam, so we have to gauge your knowledge level as we go.
Pricing is a double edge sword. Some folks WILL NOT buy for any reason if dont make them feel like they won negotiating. So do you put the tag high and haggle your way down to accommodate the customer? If you do that then other folks will walk by complaining about the price.
If you start at internet prices but wont budge you loose sales by not making the customer feel like they are the worlds best haggles and you lose sales.
Bottom line is there is absolutely no blanket answer. The only way to make folks happy is to look in your crystal ball, see what kind of person they are, and adjust the prices on every price tag, in the 5 seconds you see them turn to head to your booth.
Vendors dont getva penny of you addmission money. You have to look at admission and parking as entertainment price alone or dont bother going. You dont go to the movies and expect the cost of the ticket to come off of popcorn prices do you? And that money all goes to the movie theater.
One sale in particular, I had a sale scope that was 125 cheaper than internet. After 30 minutes of me not budging 1 penny, the guy got pissed and left. I promise if I had started high and worked down the sale would have been made. As a vendor I have to chalk that up to "cant win them all, not everyone does business as I do" as customers folks need to have the same mind set.
You have to look at admission and parking as entertainment price alone or dont bother going.