Thread: Brisbane Wood Show 2018

I went last year, I suspect the top two comments as these would reflect last years event. I also went to the Maleny show. I had not been to a wood working show before and I my feeling was that the superior Maleny show is too close both in timing and distance for the Brisbane show to be successful and the Brisbane promoter is not able to complete with the Maleny country show feel and volunteer work force.


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My understanding is that they venue has made it so expensive that fewer and fewer people can afford to attend the show and make it profitable. My last one was in 2016 and it was still a fun day. 15 exhibitors sounds too low though... I'd say the site is just not listing them all.

If I were you I'd go check it out, but you're right to not expect anything near the quality of the Maleny show.

Good luck,
Luke

I asked a similar question a couple of weeks ago

Brisbane TWWS - Is it dying ?

I can only find the same as you have...15 exhibitors. No Carbatec, No Gregory's Machinery...it has also switched to the smaller Marquee area to reflect to lack of exhibitors.

Unfortunately I will be missing both SE Qld shows this year......TWWS due to it's declining size and Maleny is a miss due to being in Tasmania on that weekend.

If I was home on the Maleny weekend, I would choose that show. It has been getting better every year and as mentioned above, the country show feel is a real plus.

Its comments like these that will kill this show. I've been going for years and will continue to no matter how small it gets. There is always some good timbers to buy and good select ions in tools and hardware, and besides the reduced numbers mean more personalised service.

Hi double D

Are the comments killing it or is the organiser.

It’s a week out. The website says there are 15 exhibitors.

The website hasn’t been updated since October.

“Exhibitor Floorplan coming soon”

Happy to travel 5hrs and spend my money if I have info to hand. But I ain’t doing that for 15.


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I think that the big Wood Shows are declining.
The Adelaide Wood Show was great 10 years ago. But eventually it became too expensive for the exhibitors to come, and now it is a few years since we have had a show here.
The same thing happened to the Motor Show in Adelaide, there has not been one for many years.
I think that the venues are mostly to blame for being too expensive.

Regards
Keith

Carbatec will not be at the show this year. Instead they are having 10% or more off at their showroom on the same days. What the........

Originally Posted by jazzy69

Carbatec will not be at the show this year. Instead they are having 10% or more off at their showroom on the same days. What the........

I have seen companies in other retail sectors adopt this approach, market discounts and keep the customers away from the show where the competition are only a few meters away.



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Thanks. Will wait for Melany.


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Maleny Wood Expo is the only wood show worth attending these days IMHO, and seems to get better each year, with more exhibitors being added each year.

Originally Posted by forrestmount

I have seen companies in other retail sectors adopt this approach, market discounts and keep the customers away from the show where the competition are only a few meters away.



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Got an email about this yesterday, talk about stick the knife in. I'll go visit Carbatec but it won't be to buy anything, just for a free lunch.

Originally Posted by dazzler

Hi double D

Are the comments killing it or is the organiser.

It’s a week out. The website says there are 15 exhibitors.

The website hasn’t been updated since October.

“Exhibitor Floorplan coming soon”

Happy to travel 5hrs and spend my money if I have info to hand. But I ain’t doing that for 15.


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Fully understand your position and i would feel the same if i had to travel but there is no excuse for locals not to go.

Double,d, I admire your loyalty, but aren't you being a bit like the bloke in the Monty Python sketch? "This show isn't dead, it's just restin' "

I too have been watching the website for the TWWWS - in a word, it's pathetic, and as whoever said above, is updated about as regularly as the Bible. For a contrast, take a look at the Maleny show site. At least someone seems to be alive up there!

I've been attending the TWWW show since it began, missed maybe three shows in all that time. The decline in the number of exhibitors and variety has been noticeable for at least 10 years, and has become painfully obvious these last few. They've progressively reduced the floor area utilised in the pavilion, which only serves to emphasise the fact, imo.

What's missing, I think, is the range of activities & both professional & amateur input of the earlier years. There were many more people 'doing things' in the 'old days', not just a couple of lathes spitting chips. You could watch blokes like Frank Weissner cranking out a masterpiece or two, etc. If you want to get people interested in woodwork, you need to give them ideas and aspirations - then maybe they'll scoot off & buy the tools to try the wonderful things they've seen. The retailers & their "show specials" were the cream on the cake, or maybe the filling, but certainly not the whole pie! These days, with 24/7 shop-on-line, it's rather redundant to drive across town to see a few retailers with limited stock, when their full list of wares is just a click of the finger away.

And I doubt it's fear of competition that keeps firms like Carbatec away - being able to compare & contrast usually promotes sales. I suspect it's simple arithmetic, if they have to pay $x for a booth and end up with $x-y takings after 3 days, they can probably figure out that's not a good business model.

I'm off to Maleny, too!

Cheers,

Carbatec have had these same sales in the previous years but usually the week before TWWS