General Discussion

After considering our carbon footprint, and walking the mile and a half to the new Dawlish Warren carboot sale instead of using transport, my partner, mother and I were somewhat taken aback after being told we had to pay 30p each to enter the field of approximately 8 sellers. Then we learned that if we had taken the car in, we would have only had to pay 50p per car! I wonder if the sellers are aware of the fact that buyers have to pay to enter when it is not advertised on the signs or was even mentioned in the advert in last weeks Gazette? I also wonder if the sellers realise how many people are turning away due to the charge. We witnessed a number of cars turning away whilst discussing the entry fee with the person on the gate with no ID and with no customer relations skills and then turning away ourselves after discouraged by his attitude towards us.
Had the entry fee been a donation to a registered charity, I'm sure more buyers would be more obliging even if there was only a few stalls to be seen.
Are my principles correct about the entry fee? I would be interested to hear other peoples' views about this and the actual sale, good or bad.

Must be the same greedy organisers as June 06
Parking then was 50p per car and 30p on foot to look around.
We and many other people asked what the charges were for and were told it was to line the pockets of the organizer.
By August 06 the fee of 30p to look around had been scraped!!!

We went there last week and didn't get charged to park car. This week I walked and saw that the cars were getting charged. They didn't ask me for an entrance fee, I thought because I was on foot. If they had I wouldn't have gone in.

They will learn the hard way.

Starcross on Saturday mornings - no charge to park car.

Dawlish Warren on Tuesday mornings no entrance fee if on foot.

And both are much, much, better than that apology for one at Warren Farm on Thursdays.