Monday, October 16, 2006

Buy low, sell high

Here's one thing I can put on First-Time list: I participated in a bazaar last weekend. Along with Runi, Bune and Bangun, I sold dresses in Warung Baba's bazaar. For two straight days, we arrived there at 12 noon and stayed there up 'til 10 at night.

It was tiring. The weather was very hot, you'd think the sun was just an inch above. Not being able to drink didn't help the situation. Plus the patience I had to put up with stubborn customers who thought they could buy a vintage-looking, colourful, pretty-detailed dress for under Rp. 50.000 was almost unbearable.

Despite all that, however, I had so much fun. It involved cute clothes, which is one of my top interests, and I'd never done this before; trying to sell stuff to strangers (even though quite a few people who came weren't really strangers--our family and friends), having to smile and make small talks in order to have people buy the dresses. It's worth the two-week preparation we'd had, and RunBun, I'm gonna miss working with you every single day, trying to fix the dresses.

For now, I'm done with bargaining. I'm sick of both trying to buy something with the lowest price and selling something with the highest price.

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