[SCA-AE] Need Merchant Info

[runemage at adelphia.net]

Have to agree with you here.  My roommate and I merchant as a hobby and can't afford the insurance either.  Would have liked to go out to War Camp and the 10 year celebration at Cooper's but without merchanting to cut the travel expenses it's just too expensive.  Oh well.  

--- Thomas Gressman <welshborderer at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Truth to tell, this is one of the reasons Got out of
> merchanting, some of the excessive requirements /
> demands placed on / made of mechants.
> 
> Lookit... I was a small merchant. If  made a couple
> hundred bucks at weekend-long event, it was a *really*
> good show. 
> 
> Things like requiring merchants to have insurance are
> driving the "hobby merchants", like me out of
> business. Things like that cost money. I can either
> eat the costs, find some way to lay off the costs,or
> pass them along to the customer. That results in
> either poorer quality merchandise or higer prices.
> 
> Or, merchants go out of business - like I had to.
> Because of market forces, like increased restrictions,
> and enforced cost of business increases, I could no
> longer compete with the "professional" merchants, and
> had to fold.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> This ain't rocket science, it is Economics 101. Some
> people just don't get it.
> 
> Morgan (formerly ShadowCat Leathers)
> 
>