Posted by Leroy on January 30, 2016 at 21:14:34 from (69.88.202.68):
I know some of you are familuar with and others that have attended our show. It is now official THERE WILL BE NO BUCKEYE FARM ANTIQUES SHOW at Wapakoneta, Ohio this year. The show was always Memorial Day weekend for the past 26 years with a fall swap meet usually in Novemer. The fair board got too greedy and the club pulled out. The club would like to be able to find a different location for it but time is short for that. The fair board would this year have made $1,476 per day for the 3 days of the show, 2 days for the swap meet and 2 setup days.There are quite a few members that are heavy in running the show and meet. They like to camp on grounds to make sure things are as supposed to be. A small fee for utilitys is reasonable and has been good for years. Everybody except the fair board was OK with $5 day for electric even tho actuall electric costs for campers would for most have been under a dollar per day so fair board was making big on that along with the rent. Now the fair board is demanding all of them to pay a $25 dollar a day fee for 7 days to stay for putting on the show, that would be $175 out of the members pockets to put on the show, also all venders or exibitors that want to stay on grounds would have to pay that $25 day. How many venders could afford to on top of paying for their vender space could do that. The venders would not come and also the exibitors would not spend the cost to bring an exibet and then pay that much to stay for show, they would not come. So without exibitors, venders or help a show could not be put on. When the show was first started the fair board was happy to have the club and they have made verry good money every year. The club is a non proffit club. Someware around halfway through the total number of shows put on the club had made enough money to fut up a very nice big building on the grounds with the county bosses that own the fair grounds that as long as the club is in extinance the club owns the building, if the club disbands then the building will go to the fair grounds with the fair board controling the building. It was after the building was completed, big storage building with a full meeting room completely finnished, only thin missing is bathroom and fairboard would not extend sewer or water, well anyway after it was all completed I do not know total cost but and with club members doing a lot of the work I think in the around $50,000 range. It was after that the fair board got hard to work with. I think they are trying to get rid of the show and club will disband so they can take over ownership of the building and then rent it out. That will not happen for years as the club has several hundred members. The show and the swap meet were filling the motels so a lot of money comming into the town. With the fair board making the desion to charge so much as to get rid of the show the community will loose in the neighboorhood of a hundred thousand dollars a year. And if the town just would have been interested enough to do like Portland, In. does in having town wide garage sales that weekend could have doubled the money comming in. It is going to hurt the comunity heavy. The club is looking for someplace to hold the show that was schedualled 3 years ago for feature. The admission for the show has always been $2.00 per adult admission and for the swap meet everybody except the workers buyer, seller or looker paid just $200 per person per day. The fall swap meet seller paid for 2 days just $4.00 for as large an area he wanted. So sellers loved it here. The clubs thought were keep the cost to get in down, then people would be able to support the food venders plus possibly buy from other venders. That ment that a family of 5, parents with 3 kids under age 12 could come out for the day for $4.00 and be able to eat. Some of the shows around that are loosing visitors are charging $5.00 per day or $25 for that group, are people going to come to pay that much. Don't think so. I have been a member from the first public orginational meeting 2 years before the first show and we have now had 26 shows and 22 fall swap meets.
The club regrets that things had to happen like this for everybody. Some venders would already have thier spot spoke for for over a year and all the people that have to change plans because the fair board was getting too greedy and therefore will loose thousands of dollars. If anybody that know the area would know of a plave that could handle the show the club would like to know about it.
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