Although Vendors said sales were down:
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/f...mp;c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Saturday, October 20, 2007
Vendors say fair sales are down
Even though attendance is up, vendors at the State Fair say their sales are down.
"[It's] different types of people," said Ron Robare of Arkansas. "It isn't the numbers, it's people with disposable income that count."
Trains, planes and cars were Robare's product, models carved in impressive detail out of mahogany and birch. His booth is in the Kerr Scott Building just inside Gate 11.
Just before the N.C. State Fair, Robare was selling at "The Big E." That's the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass., billed as the biggest fair in the northeast. It runs for 17 days.
Sales were down there, too, he said, about 20 percent.
Juan Lee, of California, is selling an impressive, colorful display of ceramic art in the Education Building.
The lighthouses and beach scenes do well in North Carolina, he said. Still, his sales are down.
Like Robare, he has been traveling across the country, selling his product. "It's everywhere," he said.
Why are sales down?
"I have no idea," Lee said. "It may be the economy."
Posted at 01:26 pm by Deborah Jackson in Fair Blog
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