Peterborough - Festival of Antiques

I always buy well at Wetherby racecource

I used to live very close to Wetherby ... I have driven past the racecourse on numerous occasions and the car-boot sale site close by too ... never driven past when there was actually a sale on there though ... I always promised myself I would go to one of the sales during recent holidays back home to Yorkshire but I've never got round to it ... perhaps next time I visit UK I should give it a go ...

I shall watch out for that one, cheers

I always find lots of studio pottery there

just got back from peterbrough and brought loads. seems like the weather forcast was making the sellers more welcome to the wife's offers (money only)
i will post some pictures later today. it was sleet and snow all the way up there but stopped about 10 i think.

just got back from Peterborough and bought a pair of rubber gloves.
no rain,sleet or snow but Gareth looked like he's been frozen in a glacier

I have never been so cold in my life. Plenty of snow today but not many people.

I think I have double pneumonia

gareth-h wrote:I have never been so cold in my life. Plenty of snow today but not many people.

I think I have double pneumonia

I hope stallholders will all be issued with medals.

better still thermals

Not too bad from a selling point of view but next year they are putting the stall costs up 25% in the Nat West area (cowsheds). 25%???

I think if you had half decent stuff (or even the finest quality items in your case  ) then selling probably wasn't going to be too bad. I was talking to a couple of people that I know who had stalls there and they had done OK but both commented that there was less for them to buy than normal.

I don't think that raising stall fees significantly like that for whatever reason is something that is going to improve the situation. I was told about the rise and immediately thought as a potential customer it might not be worth me attending next time, as something like that is bound to reduce stallholder numbers.

there was far more to buy at Newark but the weather was atrocious  

Any dealer registered would be able to claim it back but.......... at the moment you must register if your turnover is £79,000 or above per annum so very few dealers, who trade at fairs, would need to be registered.

are collectables fairs covered by this vat change? or vintage fairs?

It is a new interpretation of VAT rules by HMRC.

HRMC have declared that, from last November (2012), the supply of space at fairs (antiques & collectors, craft, vintage, art deco etc) should be subject to VAT, effectively putting the cost of the stallholders pitch up by 20%.

Note that it is an interpretation, which could be challenged, but there would be a cost involved for fair organisers to do that.

I have just read this in Antiques Info. Two of the big organisers (IACF and Nelson) are launching a legal challenge and they are also have a petition at http://www.saveourfairs.co.uk

What it will do if it stays in force is to make it more attractive for a stallholder to stand at a fair where the organiser's turnover is less than the threshold i.e. where the organiser is not VAT registered.

That is unless the small organiser decides to raise prices to make more profit, pretending that they are VAT registered.

it's that time of year again   next Friday & Saturday

oh yeah ... me and the wife will be up there Friday.... oh no she won't as she have had the cancel her holiday for that day and go down London on some course but I'm not laughing really.   

you'll just have to go on Saturday then Lee