Thread: Adelaide Wood Show

There is a god!!!

Sounds like the ideal place for the forum get together - see everyone there 12 noon on friday...

Well Guys

It looks that two of you are going to the show.

Where are the rest of you ?

Phil

My plan was Saturday

Friday for me, and BigShed too.

Yep, might even get a forum cap

Originally Posted by Tankstand

The show also features a brand new addition for visitors, the Coopers Beer & Burger Barn. On offer will be beef burgers, pies, sandwiches and sweets, and of course Coopers beer on tap.
DON'T GET HAMMERED!

They need to join up and offer a coopers & burger with every N4400, then they can change it to "GET HAMMERED"

Very dissapointed with size of show. large local Mitre 10, Timbecom, lots of space no carbetech what the stuff goes on do they want our patronage or are we just suppopsed to go web shopping and not window shop. Lost my respect
Whole woodshow orgaisation needs a good kick in the bum

But good side was got a sherwood drill press with the easy riser and the wasp sander with the butterfly thing.
Tomorrow the 18" woodfast bandsaw comes my way.

Yep your right the show was a real let down this year(in exhibitor attendance), you could see every thing in minutes if not looking for a particular product. It was pretty sparse.
Was good that JET and Leda had a decent range on show... and the Kapex, get one next year hopefully!
The only forumite's I seen were Tankstand, Dangermouse, Neil and Jim Carroll.

Funny thing happen at the show, got a message on the phone while chatting with Jim... "The WWWshow is now open"... well derrrr!

Originally Posted by Tonto

Very dissapointed with size of show. large local Mitre 10, Timbecom, lots of space no carbetech what the stuff

Not a very good way to promote their products is it? They will have lost a lot of business I should imagine. Catalogue buying is not like seeing and touching buying is it ? Oh well its their loss.

Same feelings here - second time for me in about 20 years, my fuzzy recollection of the first is of something definitely bigger. In and out in 90 minutes. Still managed to buy most of the toys I was thinking of, though. Could not find Nova chucks, I might have been tempted to go for a second one. Seen Neil Almighty in the flesh. Will tell you later if his buffers stand up to the promotional hype.

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Same feelings here - second time for me in about 20 years, my fuzzy recollection of the first is of something definitely bigger. In and out in 90 minutes. Still managed to buy most of the toys I was thinking of, though. Could not find Nova chucks, I might have been tempted to go for a second one. Seen Neil Almighty in the flesh. Will tell you later if his buffers stand up to the promotional hype.

THEY WILL!!!

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.

Sorry to hear... Thanks for coming while you could

It's a sad state of affairs, and not unusual. In a previous life, our business used to support a major aussie professional body's annual conference by attending the trade show. We gave up after about 20 years, not only because of the outrageous fee escalations, but mostly because of the huge opportunity cost of time, wages, accommodation, travel and freight.

The show organisers do very well out of the shows I think, but they eventually kill the goose.

In the US, it seems to be a different story, and some industries have a well supported show on somewhere just about every week! Market size is the driver...

woodbe