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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45665
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 9:52 am Post subject: Online farmers market
Anyone seen this? https://www.marketestalls.com/acatalog/index.html

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 10:49 am Post subject:
What a fab idea!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45665
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 10:51 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

What a fab idea!

Yeah, not sure how well it's been done or how it works, anybody here use it (buy or sell)?

NeathChris

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
Posts: 1387
Location: Neath, South Wales

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 11:35 am Post subject:
I wonder hom many customers you would get off it, for £89 a year i would expect alot!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 11:44 am Post subject:
I'm there with you Chris, but, we could put together a DS stall, and see? £89 isn't much of an investment split, say, 3/4/5/6 ways. 20 lines for sale at a time, rotated during the year. Might be worth a punt.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45665
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 11:45 am Post subject:
OR we could set up summat similar, where's Jema?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 11:46 am Post subject:
That's our trading post, isn't it? To a degree...

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45665
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 11:47 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

That's our trading post, isn't it? To a degree...

Yeah, but for people that want a little more....

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45665
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 11:49 am Post subject:
Jema (if he's interested) might be able to code something that gives traders access to something much bigger, and he's set up a lot of "free" websites so maybe could think of a way to do this? A "myfreemarket" type of setup???

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28231
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 1:31 pm Post subject:
Interesting, any one know how the payment part is done, is there one central checkout, e.g. punter pays them, then they pay you?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45665
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 1:35 pm Post subject:
I think that's largely irrelevant, if you're interested in doing it then there's plenty of people here that'd help you spec such a system.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28231
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 2:53 pm Post subject:
I think ti is highly relevant myself. I also think such a scheme could be highly problematical if actually totally free. Renting does mean the stalls are liable to be properly run, without any payment of rent I think the system would be a nightmare for customers and organisers.

NeathChris

Joined: 09 Feb 2006
Posts: 1387
Location: Neath, South Wales

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 3:05 pm Post subject:
I think the rental would at least make it more creditable and make sure it is more organised if people have topay money towards it. It would be interesting to know what customer volume it has.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 3:08 pm Post subject:
Well, why don't we try it? Are there 10 people here who'd invest £8.90, and offer two items for sale on a Downsizer stall? If there are, sign up. We can debate and discuss endlessly, or you we can find out for sure. If it doesn't work, you've lost a round of drinks, if it does, we steal the idea.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28231
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 3:24 pm Post subject:
We still have a slush fund (albeit small and decreasing) for us to be able to pay for this as a site, if we think there is something to be found out. Though there are tricky issues here as well in terms of exactly who would be stealing the idea

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