Re: [CR] Denver VeloSwap Great News Update

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From: <hersefan@comcast.net>
To: gpvb1@comcast.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Denver VeloSwap Great News Update
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:30:45 +0000


Hi CR folks,

I had a chat with the contact person (Reese Brown) at VeloSwap.

The upshot is they DO NOT want to push out the individual seller, but they did need to raise revenues.

In retrospect, Reese was not sure the latest pricing move was the right one to make. When I said that the little guy was being pushed out, and that the number of sellers was declining, he was very concerned. He also said that their record keeping was a bit weak and their ability to track declines in vendors is nonexistent. I think he is now more nervous about these issues than I am!

Reese said that he'd be willing to work with myself or others to "flex" as much as possible in order to make the event work for everyone.

For some math... Veloswap must pay $10 for each parking ticket. Therefore in the old days, with a $65 table (after $10 rebate), and $20 in parking and chair costs to them, and two "admisison revenues lost", their incremental benefit of a vender versus two attendees was only about $19!

So what to do? Reese was open to the idea of selling a block of tables with perhaps some price accomodation to us vintage folks as a group.

So - if you want to display at veloswap AND you haven't already registered and you want to jump in, email me by late day friday and I'll see what I can work out with him as a group. It wont be a huge savings, but it will be something I think and we all can have fun that day.

Mike Kone in Boulder CO