Antioch Holiday Craft Fair

Just received a form letter from the Antioch Holiday Craft Fair (or Contra Costa County Fall Fair or whatever you disguise this pitiful event as). It said:

We have received your application for the 2009 Fall Faire and appreciate your interest in our Faire. We regret to inform you that at this time we will not be contracting your services. Unfortunately, we feel that our product() are not suitable in nature for this event.

I sent in my application for this event five weeks ago and they have taken this long to get back to me. I emailed them several weeks ago and had no response. I called them last week and was told that somebody would return my call. Never happened.

Faced with the possibility of having to find another event, I called them on Monday and was told that they had not received my photos. Been doing this event for several years now and was there for two excruciatingly terrible weekends last year. So, I played the game and sent them in. Today I received the rejection letter - FIVE FREAKING WEEKS AFTER I SENT IN. They are being very inconsiderate toward the vendors and they could care less about us. Their show stinks. It sucks. They've been having it for two three-day weekends for many years and vendors have sat for hours and hours with no sales. So they changed it to one two-day weekend this year and called it by another name. It's a terrible show. The crowds were much smaller last year and if you are located in one of the two 'slow traffic' buildings you are totally screwed. Nobody comes to the last building and few go to the middle building. The show stinks. Not worth the money. They really gave a bunch of vendors the shaft this year.

Annual Craft Fair and Gift Show - Santa Rosa, CA

Santa Rosa (fairgrounds) Annual Craft Fair and Gift Show Nov-Dec 2009

While looking through Craftmaster, noticed that Santa Rosa is going to have it's the annual Christmas Craft fair and Gift show in December, which will run for three weeks in November and December. Saw that they are getting 500 vendors (doubt it-we haven't forgotten how bad that show was), but that is way too many. They did not have this show the past few years, but we did it before during the middle week of the three and it was bad. Too many vendors and not enough money to go around. Now, we have the poor economy, so that makes it worse. I'd stay the heck away from this one. Three weeks? Uh uh. If you want to see how organized they are, try going to their website. http://www.santarosacraftfair.com/. It's out of whack and so is the show. Maybe they are waiting to get money from vendors to pay for their website, etc. Advisable to stay away from this one.

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