Shoppers were fierce with their bargaining skills, though, so it was tough work to keep our ground. We sift through our inventory and drastically reduce prices on items that we bring to this market, so it was quite a surprise to have one person after another offering us HALF of the marked prices! Wow, that is some rough work. Negotiating on every single transaction isn't a pleasant way to do business when you deal with middle- and finer- material. There are definitely businesses that are happy to operate in this end of the market, but it's a marked change from the way the Thieves Market was a year ago for us.
We're not certain that we'll go through it again next month - it has a definite whiff of a garage sale, rather than a fair market, at this point. Took the stuffing out of us, to be honest.
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