Hi, I've ran a market stall - ages ago!! BUT in my experience it WAS hard work, espec if you didn't get your lines right, and worst still if your pitch, prices, approach, etc. were all off the mark! I'm not being negative because of my exerience - I did make some cash and gained friends - but I must admit the real value for me was the Craic! In addition to your prelim research, I would encourage you to perhaps join e-bay, maybe set up a trader account or *even* dabble in a spot of trading! See it as an introduction to the mindset? If it whets your whistle! then go for it! CP
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Hi everyone, this enquiry is a general enquiry for me. I have been reading through some of the posts on here and I have come up with a brainwave. [:0] I was just thinking that maybe I could start my own market stall. What I would sell I am not sure yet but I will have a think and research that. I will find a supplier for whatever I sell. Does anyone know how difficult it is to get a pitch on a market and how much they roughly cost in the south? Is it difficult to start a market stall business and any tips or help would be much appreciated. Thankyou

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Hi there, I also am intrested in running a market stall, i have spoken to a few trades and they advised me if i was willing to put in the hard work and get good product lines then i would see the benefits. I have also done some research on the net and this has helped me to find potential suppliers market pitches and information relating to all aspects of market trading. I will hopefully opening a stall in the near future and if it does not go as expected then i will know that i have gave it my best shot, so my limited advice would be to keep going untill you have what you want and build on it.[]

Sabina - SPAM! The user asked for advise on a market stall - you advise setting up an online store?! You have posted 3 messages on this forum and every single one of them promotes your website. This forum is about helping small business ladies & gentlemen - often through helping you can promote your own interests but come on, give us all a break. I can honestly say spamming does not make me like a company more, I'll certaintly never put any of my hard earned cash into FuzzBox. Anyway, market traders. The 2 biggest markets are North Weald Saturday Market (Essex way) and Blackbushe Sunday Market (Junction 4A off the M3) - these are huge markets. There is also a fairly large one on a Thursday at Kempton Park Racecourse. You can call Blackbushe on 01252 878074. Get an idea of prices per pitch from them... I believe the prices are something like £70 for a 8" pitch... Hugemark International run the markets at Northweald, Kempton and a good 5 others. They can be contacted on 0118 945 1799. Running a market is hard work - my father has run a stall at Blackbushe for the last 7+ years and it involves long, long days. Often he'll make no money at all as there are simply no customers - but other days he can make a good £500 for 15 hours work. The best thing to do is firstly get a few ideas of products - then visit some of these markets and evaluate how you'll sell your product and have some of being different to the rest. You'll have to think about buying or renting the physical stall. You'll need a car/van to take the stuff, you'll need the relevant insurances as you'll be dealing with the public. If your selling food you'll need a basic hygiene certificate. The best thing to do once you've sorted out all of these issues is get yourself along to one of these markets very early (5am?) and queue up as a casual trader - at about 7/8am you'll be taken around and assigned locations where the regular traders who hold regular spots have not shown up. Try this for a week or 2, preferably without investing too much in stock first, and see how it goes. Hope this helps David Middlesex Technology Services www.mtsuk.net
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Phew - I'm glad my rant was followed up with what is hopefully some helpful advice... and considered to be polite. It was one of those posts that you type... read over.... tone down.... read over..... tone down again.... then submit. David Middlesex Technology Services www.mtsuk.net
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Hey Shady, I am like you and i have started a market stall but i am also having a website built at http://www.zodiac-football.com I have been to North weald and it is very good dependant on what you are stocking as at markets they do like a bargain. My walk in stall with table at 8ft X 8ft was with accessories was just under £300 and North weald charged me £47 as a casual, I went for the market stall and website as the costs for a bricks and mortar shop were astronomical at over £8000 a year for a 10ft X 20ft shop with no even a toilet or anything in there. Hope i have helped in some way all the best and good luck. Tom
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I know I'm probably gonna offend some people here but I think that a lot more people would be best served trying out a market stall than going straight into an online store and expecting everything to happen. Think what a stall can give you: Experience Customer contact Trader/Seller contact Sense for business Sales experience A good sense of a hard days work! A chance to try things A good tan (if you're very lucky!!) It's not for everyone but more should try it than currently rely on opening an online shop and crossing your fingers!
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I have to agree with Marketeer on this one.I had a stall and by god it was hard work..Get there at 5am and hope for a decent pitch( show up for a while and get noticed and you will move up the ranks)Hope you get nice and weather and hope you have what people need at good competitive prices..Then its all down to you!!Good luck though. Mark UK's cheapest service provider www.utilitiesplus.info
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Go to your local market and have a look at what goes on, speak to traders and shoppers, ask the officialls for pitch prices, decide what you are going to sell, have a look for nieches, what is your local market missing??? Also remember that the market stall is mainly a "cash" business, so what ever you choose to sell must be within a reasonable price range. People dont walk around with hundreds of £'s on them. As for on-line shopping....of the 1000's that try only 1 or 2 succeed....the rest just annoy us with there spam.

I suppose the essential thing is that you don't go onto the web for the sake of it, believeing it to be a good idea and that's it sorted!!. Gets on my t**s the amount of people who start "an internet business" cos they think it is a cash cow! Similarly, with a market stall - know what you're getting into; speak to others who are doing it/have done it; spend some time looking at markets and seeing what is and isn't successful. Perhaps there's something not being offered? Or something you could do better? Then you'll have the hard slog of sorting out supplies, logistics, cash flow, attracting customers... Good luck!
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Thanks a lot guys for all your responses and if you go to blackbushe market buy loads of stuff off a guy freezing his ass off!!!!! Shady007 salimhussainno1@hotmail.com

I think Sabina once posted on another forum the same spam and a few called the 0800 number and didn't speak. Also got one of their mobile numbers!
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Firstly Davels very well said....alot of individuals get caught up with spamming thinking its an easy option not realising that to a well organised site its nothing short of irritating when good threads suddenly have a spam attack.....so far my impression of this site as a new member is very very good(well done to you all)and to the spammers...ask yourself if the returns promised really are materialising or are you being duped(really no offence intended as we are all simply trying to make a crust) On the market stall point....is there a market that has both market stalls with a car boot sale area at the side near where you live??perhaps its an option to car boot sale it for a while until you make contacts ...decide your lines...and wath the flow through per stall whilst you enjoy getting a very small taste of what a market stall would be like. very good luck with it as it does seem a terrific business if your suited to it.[]

I have worked for other people on stalls and as everyone has said, with the right lines at the right price it can be a goldmine. Do not forget that to do it legally you still face all the tax issues and staff employement costs (if you emply) and it is long hours. If you do it all right, you could expect £40K and above profit per year so next time you are in a market - remember a lot of the guys there are earning more than you.
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hi jayuk, ive got to be carefull what i put here - dont want to be accused of spamming! you want to run a market stall but not sure what to trade? somebody mentioned setting up an e-commerce site. why not do both? and ive got an idea what you could trade - DVDS! www.dvdtrader.co.uk is for sale - any realistic offer accepted go and take a look at www.uk-wholesaler.co.uk its got some info on markets and a great selection of stock ideas - including dvds and players! (sorry) look at that i helped jayuk and got a plug in there myself ant www.neo3media.net - designs for print, web, multimedia and music technology Full design solution for your business startup 0870 758 0 748

I was working on my parents 2nd hand clothes stall at age 5, by age 10 I was in charge whilst my father dissappeared with the takings to a pub. You pay an high price throughout life if your an alcholic.

Market Life drawbacks: heavy rain, rain & drizzle, wind, snow and morning mists and early morning fog, also dark thunder clouds overhead keeping the punters from leaving home to walk around the market and SHOP LIFTERS. Few remember it now but at one time you always kept a shovel handy to clear the pitch of snow and ice.You also have about 4 good arguments a year with some punter or fellow stall holders over nothing.

If they start putting up stalls at 7am, you might have to get there at 5.45 am and wait in a cold car or van for permission to pull on to the site. The point being how good are you at getting up at 4am and away for 4.30am. The biggest problem is standing markets takes over your life, and arguments occur at home before you leave and once you get there about being tired, being cold, wishing you / they hadn't come and your wife or partner moaning at getting it up so early. They continue moaning the rest of the week also, it's called pay-back arguments, and in the end be warned: they'll quit helping you, or will ditch you [divorce you] over an argument you have long since forgotten about - but they haven't. You also have clients who want to bed you, offer you a night out and tell you they fancy a change. Remember infidelity and dishonesty is a dead end street and so are nyphomaniacs and drunks.

The chance/s of you finding something to sell that can be called a WINNER, is highly remote. You can quizz wholesalers but their advice is worse than asking a drunken, blind man to drive you home with him driving. Warning: Wholesalers smile a lot, why?, because they've just loaded you with old stock, unsellables and overcharged you.

Getting an image take 3 years, getting WINNING-SELLABLE stock a lifetime, you see your stock and ideas change over and over again. Tesco started out with tinned food and tea, Marks & Spencers with buttons sewn on to a penny card. He and his wife clipped them of rags and sewed them onto the cards themselves. Thats why the patron saint of all Market traders is a man who COULD NOT SPEAK ENGLISH called Michael Marks from Bialystock, Poland.

And it takes about 5 years for you yourself to adopt a WINNING attitude to life, and know what you can do [meaning in practice what you want to do] and DO IT. Your goal is quite simple you have to make £10 million pounds, create a viable business, and blossom into a kind, respected and reliable person. Remember one day your going to be a father or mother, have huge bills, get involved with others, and remain sane, honest and likeable. Remember you are attacking a market, your in friendly competion with others, and talks cheap but money buys houses? You buy for a £1 and sell for £1.20 pence, and the state wants half, your partner wants half, the bank manger wants half, and you get the half thats left. Another thing eat 4 ounces of meat per day, drink fruit juices, and look clean and tidy and do not wear a black leather coat or suede shoes. Your a business person - so look like one. And no nose-jewellery.

Hi,
Do some research. Check out the local markets. Which stand has the largest crowd? What are they selling? Is there any money in it. Speak to the manager of the market site. What does he suggest?

Dig around and see what turns up.


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Can't agree with the last post by Gary, sorry Gary.

Asking around is the lazy mans way to do market research? And whoever you ask more often than not does not have a clue or some really good advice. All markets are the basically the same reference stall contents and appeal. You have to work backwords meaning you approach some very big firms and ask do they have product returns, or seconds that you can buy dirt cheap. Lets say you want to be KITCHEN MAID, selling a range of pans, plates ,cups, and vases, so off you go and buy some unsold stock, so cheap that you have a bargain. And your in the BARGAIN BASEMENT BUSINESS. Visit the scrapyard, get some cheap alloy and make your own stall. etc.

Now then lets say you know there;s no shop who sell old fashioned WARM knickers for woman, over age 35, ideal age 45 to 75, these women do not want bits of lace, thongs, but bloomers, elasticated bloomers, so thats your starter for 10. The secret is to buy cheap, to sell 80% of your stock fairly quickly, and to dump the 20% no one wants at 2 for a £1-00.

Here's another clue, dry cleaners get left with enormous quatities of uncollected goods, so you buy all you can get, sell what you can, and sell the rest via a rag dealer to Africa, your business is based on what you can buy for next-to-nowt and its something the vendor gets regular large quantities of. If I was you I would sell fencing panels, garage doors, or tents, and have some fun. Others might say shoe returns, tools, and trainer socks. Success is 98% effort, the 2% inspiration is what bankrupts you?

Hi,
Reasonable enough but you really need to know what is likely to sell first. Stocking up on cheap stuff is OK but only if it sells. The last thing anyone wants is to have loads of rubbish around them. It's far better to take a top down approach and maybe end up with a number of areas of interest. Then see which stuff you can get cheap.

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I know it sounds rediculous but know one really knows what sells. You can buy a good line and it flops badly, you get p*****d off with it, then you go to another market and it flies out. We had hundreds of pairs of beach shorts by Reebok, in Leeds and Wetherby they did nothing, we then did Scarborough a seaside town, bank holiday 2 day weeked - with good weather, and you can guess what happened, we sold over 400 pair.

Our best ever line was mountains of good quality earphones, we got them for about 50p a set, boxes of bankrupt stock, from day one they took wing at £5 a set, we sold mountains of them, we did Nescafe at £1.00 a large jar and did nowt, we kept trying it and didn't sell 50 jars, the same with Tea, on tea they won't touch anything but Tetleys. A good tip keep well away from Stationary, we bought £38000.00 worth for £1800.00, we had no interest at silly knock down prices. And it was all new and clean and well boxed. Parker pens we couldn't give away at 2 for 99p. Boxes of new Conquerer office paper, RRP £13, our price £1.99, we sold maybe 5 packs. I still have 1/2 tonne somewhere. All you can say is that some lines sell, but just a few lines do 80% of your sales, and you will always have non-sellers. What helps is your stall image, and display and layout, study supermarket GONDOLA displays, and pack your stall full of baskets and gondolas, and give it that cheap bargain basement look. Don't put prices up, don't speak prices, just say make us an offer and I will ask the boss to approve it, if they say £5.00, you bounce back with make it £7.00. With Asians if a line is £4.00, tell them its £405, and you will give them £400 discount, THATS a full £400 discount so they can tell their friends what a bargain they got, you'll draw a fiver from them all day long. If you say it's £5, they'll play the will you take £2 for it game. If they do this to you - tell them its £12, and they can have a full £5 discount, they get confused, but will buy. No two days are the same and its nice to count the take and bung the wife £500, maybe £800 for one days work, but remember its very very tiring, and the weather can drive you mad. The last 5 sundays its rained heavy and over 1000 traders packed up and went home before 11am.

Am I being naive in thinking that a good way to go would be to consider something that would sit happily at one of these 'Farmers Markets' that seem to be everywhere at the weekend?

Maybe it's just in the South West, but you can't move for these things down here and there are normally just as many non-farmed items to buy as there are from farmers.

At the very least it would give you an opportunity to dip your toe in the water before really taking the plunge?
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Farmers markets are a good idea, and I'd plump for selling Fruit Drinks, a booming market, with the right health vibes. Coke and Pepsi are going out of fashion becaue of the trend towards an healthier, slimmer you. Plus the public are becoming sales-resitant to the year-on-year over pricing of these two very simple to make and can products.

Someone soon is going to jump in and bring out a national fruit juice winner. It's worth spending sometime discovering your own drink, some new Liccy-kicky- tasty flavour. The markets is still in its early days and it's going to be a big winner.

Hi
I'm afraid I can't vouch for markets "dahn sarf" but in the beautiful City of York, covered pitches off The Shambles (Newgate Market) go for just £10 a day.
You need market traders insurance (join the market traders association - can't remember its name but the insurance comes with the subscription).
I saw a couple of students selling retro clothing a few weeks ago. They were selling clothing hand over fist. It transpired that they bought clothing from charity shops, marked them up and sold them on as "retro". Admittedly, they had a good eye for what would sell but it struck me as very enterprising and a great way to get into market trading without breaking the bank.

Good luck

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Fruit drinks could be a good idea but what about all these flavoured waters. Is there mileage there?


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Hi,

There's a website www.townandcountrymarkets.co.uk which gives you information on how to become a market trader within the UK, and how to setup a market stalls within your area. Town and Country Markets provide indoor and outdoor markets.

I hope this helps

Hi,

I am also thinking about setting up a Blackbushe market. I have an online ebay shop at the minute and have also been selling at carboot sales. I worked in buying before i had my litlle boy so have a great understanding of price, products and trands. I have got a book full of suppliers that i have collected over the last 2 years. I can buy almost anything that you see at Markets at fantastic prices. Genuine uk suppliers of branded clothes, these are hard to find. Great cosmetic and beauty, accessories, stationary, household, etc

Problem is i dont drive a van so would find it hard setting up all the equipment. If anyone else is thinking about setting up at Blackbushe and would like to split a stall and share all costs of driving to and back from the market let me know. I can get all equipment reasonably priced.

Can also help with finding suppliers for serious person who is genuine about setting up.

Let me know if anybody is interested and we can have a chat over the phone

I live in Aldershot.

The difficulty of the market totally depends on the consumers' demands and the availability of the provisions provided by your supplier. Extensive research is the best way to go. I hardly suggest you do so.
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Markets are successful from place to place. Choose a relatively nice product, especially anything Fair Trade or claiming to be, a nice historical town and I think chances of success are increased. I supply fashion to marketeers and event traders but also did some markets myself. Each market has different rules, but the one I attended was fairly flexible in that you could book your spot and keep it providing you were reliable. If you were new, you just turned up at 7am on the morning to see if there was a space available. After proving yourself when someone dropped out you could have their place. Not such hard work but certainly hard on cold/wet days when selling was nearly impossible. Summer days and Christmas afternoons were great, sometimes making £700 possible.

Also a good way of finding out about other more specialised events that cost little (the way to go), such as Christmas markets, good craft fairs, private sales, charity fairs, country fairs in stately homes etc.
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If your thinking of trading at blackbush market have you ever considered selling at Brighton racecourse market - it has over 30,000 visitors every bank holiday monday. you can book a pitch for Brighton racecourse market online at www.townandcountrymarkets.co.uk

CROSS GREEN Leed LS9 SUNDAY CAR BOOT SALE.

[a/k/as The Leeds Council workers Pension Pot - Top Up Plan]

Leeds Council have just put up the 10 foot wide pitch rents to £42,00 a bay, and £62.00 for the AAA aisle sunday market. To make matters worse you had to fill in a NEW form with positive I.D, give them your local tax office return numbers, and your DHSS Soc Sec number, along with your date of birth, sight of your driving license and passport.

Result, its been like a ghost town down there for the last 2 months. Worse still, if you wanted to get inside an hour early to set up your stall, meaning to go in at 06-00am instead of 7.00am, they charged you an £15,00 early entry fee. Its things like these that they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School..

PS: Marks and Spencers started in business in Leeds Market, 125 years ago today,

Have a look at www.findamarket.net

Free to use and loads of info there !

My husband bought me a stall at Portobello Saturday market from PortobelloMarket.co.uk selling ladies fashion.

My husband initially bought the stock to sell and the first Saturday was terrible, we only sold 2 T shirts and 3 dresses - about £200 in total.

He bought all stuff that he would like to see women wear, rather than what we like to wear.

Then I replenished the stock with hand picked items from a trade warehouse we found in commercial road, London E1 and we did £600 the second week (about £350 net profit).

Then we added ladies boots and shoes and after about 11 months we now average about £1200 per Saturday. (about £800 net profit).

I really look forward to Saturdays now, as the market is very busy and people are very friendly.

I'm told that Portobello Market is the busiest market in Europe and a high percentage are foreign tourists.

It gives me a break from my 2 children and my husband lets me keep half the profit

Town and Country Markets are now offering there market traders to have discounted coupons on there website so shoppers can just print them off and use them at any Town and Country operated markets. http://www.townandcountrymarkets.co.uk/shoppers/coupons/

Also they are offering there traders a web design so they can advertise there business 24/7

Hi guys, I have written an E-book "How to run your own market stall" that you can buy

at

http://runmarketstall.wordpress.com/

It has step-by-step instructions how to start your own business in the markets. It covers Arts & Crafts markets mainly but can be used in any type of market.

Please visit my web page for free sample chapters and my own case study.

Thanks!

Ivana

Hi,
just read this forum,
I'm also interested in some sort of market trading, eg a stall, a peddlers barrow (we still have these in canterbury), an online shop such as e-bay, or maybe party planning (like to old tupperware parties). Something in the way of selling - without having a shop and all the headaches of that expense.
Which is great.
But where to start.
I am a single mum, and I live in a villiage five miles away from the nearest town. We have 2 pubs and combi grocery shop/post office.
Recently moved from London and have found that trying to get a part-time job that suits the hours I would like, is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, so have opted on selling at my own convenience.
I would like to know, how you go about become a trader as such.
1. how would this effect my income support?
2. would I have to inform the tax man, and how econominal what this be rather than working for an employer who has payroll dept to do this for you.
3. would I have to get a small business account set up.
4. how can you buy from wholesale, if your not a trader yet? and if you can by from wholesale, do you need have a trading name all registered?
5. If - wanting to become a market stall holder, is there a license you need, and if you get a license - can you trade all round thhe country at different markets or does it only work on the county or town?
6. can you sell your stock at car boot as well as markets?
There are lots of question I would love to ask, but they all stem along the above ones.
Any info would be much appriciated.
Many thanks
T

Hello Everyone,
I have been reading most of the postings on many of you who are seriously inetersted in starting a Market Stall.
Let me first inform everyone, that my posting is not a SPAM. I was exploring the internet for possible good sites for Market Stall, to sell my own manufactured and own brand Bakery Products.
As like most of you I dont know everything also, and have learned quite a lot from many of you on the market stall information.
I am self made man, who started with nothing in his pocket and today I am running my own factory, with distribution in place.
But still I want to sell more of my products, and hence was looking for good market stall sites/venues.
After reading many of the postings, I was very much taken back by surprrise by many of you, who are very enthusiastic with full of energy to start this Market Stall business.
Therefore. I have a genuine proposition for many of you who are seriousy interested in setting up this Market Stall business on their own...which also is my interest also, in different parts of the regions, where you all are individually are based.
I am willing to put up 50% of the cash required to set up the Market Stall and also provde you with all my stock on credit also, at prices whic I gaurantee you will be able to sell without any problem and make a hansome profit everyday. I will also replenish the stock everyday from my factory also. This is because there is my interest also as I will be 50% partner with you in thse Market Stalls.
What I am looking for is genuine , enthsiattic individuals who are fully commited to succeed like me, with integrity and honesty, to work jointly with me in this Market Stall business, because I beleive in this business myself that it has extreme potential if handled properly.
I also have a website, which fully working website with merchant account. But lying dormant, as I am not a IT person, and dont know how to operate this website to sell my products on line and reap its full potential.
I am also willing to share upto 30% share of the revenues with anyone who can work with me to make my website business to its entire potential, and who have knowledge in IT.
Anybody interested in my proposition are more then welcome to contact me, and we can talk with full transparency and hoensty to work in this Market Stall business for my Foof Bakery Products range.
Thank you for reading, and I again apologise if I have offended anybody, who may considre this to be a SPAM, which I assure you it is not. As I am also exploring to set up Market Stall of my own.
Many Thanks.

Hiya

I have a market stand for sale if you are interested. I use to do markets doing jewellery but I have changed my career. Please let me know if you are interested.

Thanks

Sharn
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Hello Everyone,

I'm really interested in starting up a market stall selling vintage clothing. Over the years i have gathered a collection but i also need to find a good wholesaler..does anyone know where i can start? also does anyone know of the best markets for 2nd hand clothing?
thanks
DOm

Hi All,

I run an established Craft Market Website for Stalls with for Crafts & Gifts related products.

An ideal testing ground for starting out in business with distinctive crafts or design-led new and innovative products and at a low cost base. Please note that participation is by invitation only.

Take a look here:
www.CraftMarketCorner.co.uk

Regards,
GAH

Does anybody know how much it costs for a stall at Portobello market? Do they provide a stall or do you need to bring own tables etc. What size of space are you allocated at the market. How does parking work down there, do you need to pay to park your car for the day? What time do you need to be there for? Any information on setting up would be appreciated

Mary Melrose
www.lisiousmakeup.co.uk

Well first of all hello to you all.
I have read all the posts about the market stalls and got some great pointers.

I am thinking of opening a market stall in essex but am a bit confused?
I have walked around 20 markets over the last few weeks and am amazed that I have not seen the products I want to sell by anyone.

Does this mean that the products I want to sell are a no go?
I am thinking of selling a varity of differant products for example clothes and i don't know computer gear ( this is only an example) but i want a wide range of products is that a good idea?
mick1701