Ooops – some confusion
amongst traders when it was found that the Turkish Festival mentioned in the
Trader Bulletin for March 4-5 was actually taking place the following weekend.
Helping Our Competitors – we
might call this Ooops 2 because traders were certainly upset at reports that
one of our Night Market Sponsors, Nova 100, was handing out Chadstone Shopping
Centre Vouchers at the market. This was confirmed by one trader who reportedly
received a $50 voucher. Three questions were asked -
1. Who at Nova
thought it was a good idea to cross support competitors?
2. Who at QVM thought
this was OK?
3. When will
Chadstone be giving us return rights?
QVM Leads The Field On Cheap
Exchange Rates – our Exchange Booth in C Shed got thumbs up from at least one
trader who wanted to purchase US dollars. Normally he would check the official
exchange rate and then expect a lower rate once the bank has taken their
commission, but not this time. The Exchange Booth actually gave slightly better
than the official rate. Something to do with excess conversion of US Dollars to
Australian Dollars at QVM.
Departure of Long Term Traders – at least one trader
is concerned at how little fanfare (actually no fanfare) accompanies the
departure of traders, particularly long term traders. We have only recently
introduced the annual Trader Award Night and perhaps we could think of a
suitable recognition for departing traders.
If you have an idea we would like to hear it. And
please make it better than one suggestion which was for a pre-dawn telephone call
once a week just to remind ex-traders of the good old days. Some people are
sick.