#vabf

I actually only rlly met n talked with my tablemates AT this event lol; esp cause the class we met in I was auditing (sort of Ah essentially I wasn't there all the time lol). Was lovely to meet them n get to know them But it was v funny when ppl came up being like 'ooh is "East Van Student Books" like a collective wht do u do' n we're like oh um no we're just uhh all from ECU and we got a table together to save money n we all were in the same class once LOL

my tablemates didn't bring as many items as me + had varying availability due to life things so we had more tablemates in the 2nd/3rd days! they also all sold out of almost all their stuff!! so on the last day last few hours of the fair I had the whole table to myself haha v nice

That meant we had a lotta reorganizing of our table throughout the fair; kinda fun we had a v dynamic table it twas changing forms throughout the day ~

to talk ~businessy~ for a sec: For a 3 day event, I didn't earn that much more than I did at Raincity comic con which is Very interesting insight to me.. My two main theories are that 1. my books stood out much more as different/unique at the majority illustration/prints being sold at raincity, and 2. (which was the opinion of our table neighbour who has been doing this for longer) that multi-day events don't sell as well per day as 1-day events do as there's less feeling of urgency? they said that lotta ppl were like 'i'll come back tmr!' n then most don't haha fair enough