Chloe Winstanley
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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Because craft fairs, they're so great.
But I think you need to go into it with open eyes and just you need to there are things that you need.
I was quite involved in the creative community in New Zealand and I would see a lot of small businesses closing down.
I would see a lot of posts on social media because these businesses were kind of just solely focusing on attending craft fairs and
Craft fairs in New Zealand are getting really expensive and I know that they're also getting expensive in the States.
Inflation is a thing.
People are talking about recessions and all that sort of stuff.
So it's like, how do we do what we love but still have it be accessible for us so that if we're a small business and we don't have millions to throw into a craft fair...
how do we how are we able to afford it and and kind of protect against making a huge loss so I just think that things like doing your research on the craft fair in particular so if you if you are wanting to attend a craft fair I would suggest kind of scoping out what other kind of vendors they have I know it depends obviously on the craft fair but there would be a lot these days who kind of
We're resellers and things like that.
I see it all the time.
Like I was just in New York recently and I was walking past all these tables of products that look handmade, but you just know that they're just importing them and selling them and they're making their way into craft fairs too.
So it's just like, it's a real shame.
And I feel like that goes against the purpose of what craft fairs were initially.
in the first place, which was to kind of just uplift like unique creators in the community and uplift people who are actually making handmade things.
That's what their small business is.
They make earrings or they make crochet items and that's what they sell.
It's not people who, it's not made for people who are just paying to import stuff from China.
I mean, it's hard because I don't want to be judgmental about it.
people are free to do what they want but I think at a craft fair if that's what you're wanting if these people are importing stuff from overseas they're going to be selling it really cheap it's going to be people aren't going to want to spend on your high quality handmade product if they can get a similar thing for two or five dollars it's just it makes it really hard for genuine creators to sell their products and it makes it hard for the buyer
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