Thread: Adelaide Wood Show

Originally Posted by ubeaut

Nove Chucks would have been on MIK stan or Jim Carroll's

Show was poorly attended by Exhibitors and even more porely attended by the general public.

There will be one less next year as U-Beaut won't be attending again.

Heard a roumor they might put it on with the Home Show next year. Obviously they took no notice of the last time it was on with the Home Show.
NO ONE CAME TO EITHER SHOW! I have no idea why they'd want to revisit such a disaster as that again. Me thinks they would do better going to by-yearly but doubt even that will help Adelaide very much.

Cheers - Neil


PS We aren't stopping Adelaide because it's a lousy show and average a loss of around $5,000 per show. If that was the case we would have stopped some 10 years ago.

We are pulling the pin on all the shows we do, with the exception of Melb. Why? Because the shows cost us 12-14 weeks a year in lost production time and and can no longer afford to lose any production time at all.

Hi Neil,
I would agree this show and others with the exception of Melbourne should go bi-annual.

However saying that, we had all time record sales on WOODFAST Bandsaws and Woodlathes from very poor crowd numbers.

Cheers
Woodfast Aust
www.woodfast .com.au

Thats a pity Neil, but you do have a business to run and doing things that loose you money and time are not good.
I dont think I'll go next year unless they pick their game up somewhat.
I reckon what they should do with the Adelaide show is shift it closer to me and host it at the Yorke Peninsula Field Days at Paskeville(bout 1hr'ish from Adelaide), its a big show one of the biggest in Aust... they even have a landing strip for planes!
It would take you about an hour and a half without stopping just to walk down every aisle.

The amount of people through the gates would beat the entire Adel WWWshow within a hour, and plenty of things to keep SWMBO's happy!

Originally Posted by Harry72

I reckon what they should do with the Adelaide show is shift it closer to me and host it at the Yorke Peninsula Field Days at Paskeville

I like the idea Harry, but why is on mid week?

http://www.ypfielddays.com.au/index.html

You just cant win can you.
We find with the smaller crowds that there is more chances for the public to look around and see what is available without getting hurried along by the crowd or they get sick of waiting to get served that they move on.
Adelaide although a smaller show we were able to chat to people and explain things better. In saying that the organisers should consult the AFL and not be open on a day when both local sides are playing.

Melbourne is by far the biggest crowd and this is where we get the most complaints from customers after the show is that they did not see us or could not find stuff.This is especcially true on the friday where most of my answers are yes, no or maybe and move on, if you need an explaination come back saturday or sunday when it is a bit quieter.

We prefer to give everyone as much advise as possible and not hurry through an explaination and miss things.

With Adelaide it may have had less exhibitors but they were quality exhibitors.

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I like the idea Harry, but why is on mid week?

There is a pastime out in the country called sport. Footy, netball, cricket, drinking, basketball, hockey, bowls etc etc

Well thats one excuse

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Edit: thanks for the correction Tankstand!

Originally Posted by Tonto

Originally Posted by Tankstand

I like the idea Harry, but why is on mid week?

There is a pastime out in the country called sport. Footy, netball, cricket, drinking, basketball, hockey, bowls etc etc

Well thats one excuse

Another problem solvered thanks Groggy

Originally Posted by Jim Carroll

You just cant win can you.
We find with the smaller crowds that there is more chances for the public to look around and see what is available without getting hurried along by the crowd or they get sick of waiting to get served that they move on.
Adelaide although a smaller show we were able to chat to people and explain things better. In saying that the organisers should consult the AFL and not be open on a day when both local sides are playing.

Melbourne is by far the biggest crowd and this is where we get the most complaints from customers after the show is that they did not see us or could not find stuff.This is especcially true on the friday where most of my answers are yes, no or maybe and move on, if you need an explaination come back saturday or sunday when it is a bit quieter.

We prefer to give everyone as much advise as possible and not hurry through an explaination and miss things.

With Adelaide it may have had less exhibitors but they were quality exhibitors.

Yeah I'd have to agree there... it was good chatting and learning some basic's from you, you were right about the Woodcut chisel's they work very well. Got the hang of the trugrind to now, its so simple to use
I'll be ordering those P&N's soon too