Market Farming

["Steve Sando" <steve AT mrlucky.com>]

I meant to respond to this- you have to be very careful about "price fixing"
as it's illegal. I'm either a liberal conservative or a conservative liberal
but I do not believe having anyone dictate what I sell for is right, fair or
in the end, helpful.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Mulkey" <Mulkey AT tunl.duke.edu>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Occasional Market sales


Just a reminder to others out there do not put in your rules any price
structure requirements. For example that prices for produce have to be
within 25% of each other. A couple of years ago the NC State Attorney Office
did a little survey of area farmers markets. The market in Hillsborough, NC
and another were charged with unfair pricing. They had to revise their rules
and stop forcing vendors to maintain a certain price guideline.
We at the Carrboro Farmers Market do not have any kind of pricing rules. I
will walk around the market to survey the price on items I have to sell as
well as to what is available. By checking what is available I can direct
customers to a location for an item I do not have. They may not buy from me
then but will likely return at a future date to purchase something else.

Patrick Mulkey
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Pat Rupiper
  To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:26 PM
  Subject: [Market-farming] Occasional Market sales


   One of the things that the officers try to impress on the new sellers is
that all the prices be in the same ball park. I might get $0.25 more because
it is chemical free than someone else, but never $1.00.