Anyone Tried Bazaar at Orchard Central

Janice78

I am consider a regular vendor at Orchard Central Bazaar. Maybe I can share my honest opinion regarding the place to all interested vendors especially the recently concluded bazaar 2 weeks ago.

Pros

1) Air Cond and very comfortable
2) Table booth has your company name or brand name
3) Very cheap rental.
4) You can leave your products overnight. Good security.


Cons

1) Organiser very strict because management insist must open from 11-9pm
2) It is long hours so if you are alone, you might get sleepy during the weekdays afternoons
3) No hand written signboard
4) You cannot use canvas to cover up your booth every night.
5) If you are selling apparels, your apparels must NOT look too CHEAP. You cannot use hangers that you buy from NTUC cos it looks too cheap.
6) Organiser DO NOT control the amount of vendors selling the same category of products. The last bazaar that I attended 2 weeks ago consist so many apparels and accessories vendors!
7) Be prepared to accept new rules and regulations during the bazaars. I agree with Urbanboy to a certain degree and can understand him. If the organiser feels that your products are not suitable to be place at a certain place (even though your sales is good), he will ask you to move to another location. This is a big turn off because you have setup your booth in the beginning of the week and sales is good and then organiser say you have to move to another location.

The last bazaar that I attended at Orchard Central, half way through the bazaar in the middle of the week, the organiser ask all apparel vendors to remove their apparels and are not allow to sell them. This is also the first time I have seen any organiser do that

I am sure many regular vendors of Orchard Central will know what I mean Most of you were there 2 weeks ago. Urbanboy might be one of the vendors who got affected and for that, I do understand.

As for lebeautiecorner, you do not need to defend the organiser. If Urbanboy's product is not good enough, the Organiser SHOULD have told him that in the first place and not allowed him to join the bazaar in the first place. Maybe you were not affected and that is why you do not have any issue with the organiser. If you are selling accessories, just imagine halfway through the event, the organiser say your products are ugly and not nice and you have to move to another location, how would you feel honestly?

If I'm not mistaken, Urbanboy issue is with the organiser and not about sales and whether Orchard Central is a good place or not.

Also, Orchard Central has a few event organisers so not all event organiser are like that.

Finally, this is the first time that EventsMoment is organising the bazaar at Level 1. Give them a chance cos they will surely improve through time.