After the first ever Mega Flea Market earlier this year, it was back again with more stalls at the Singapore Expo last weekend.
The organizer, T. Cartel had been collecting feedback from vendors and shoppers about the inaugural flea market from their Facebook accounts. The useful feedback was taken in by the organizer and they had been putting in a lot of effort to make the second event a better shopping experience for their vendors and shoppers.
A greater variety of stalls were being incorporated for the second Mega Flea Market. Games stalls and lucky draws, which were unavailable during the first flea market, had been made available for the second flea. There was also a booth for married couples to sign up for photo shoot packages from Mikan Photo Studio.Raffles Girls School student, Amanda, a frequent flea market shopper, had been looking forward to the large variety of items sold there, especially branded clothes like those from Topshop. “It’s much cheaper and I don’t really mind that it’s second-hand,” she said.
The Mega Flea Market 2 had been a great success with its variety of items for people of different age groups. Also, there were more stalls as compared to the first flea market.
Shoppers could see the array of products available at The Mega Flea Market 2. They were ranged from apparels and accessories for genders, soft toys, infant clothes, snacks, facial products, cosmetics, perfumes, IT products, books, stationeries and many more. As for a typical housewife like Madam Harita, the flea market had given her a chance to get things for her child at cheaper price.
“I was curious about it and heard from friends that the things are cheap and good,” she said, while holding on to a pram.
Other than The Mega Flea Market 2, there were also events held in other halls at the same time. Some of the events include the John Little’s Sale, Furniture Show (Home Ideas 2010) and Malay Food Show.
However, this did not stop interested stall vendors from booking a stall for the flea.
Ms Foo Quee Yiap, who was selling honey and body care products at the flea, heard about the event through email and decided to book a stall. She felt that she could get good exposure for her shop since she had just started business with her partners. “This will help create awareness of our product in the market,” she said.“Since we are selling food, the organizer felt it was a good mix to the event and so we were selected,” Foo said.
Ms Raodah found no reasons to reject when T.Cartel informed her about the event. She was selling brand new clothes, all below the price of 30 at the flea. She used to set up stalls during the first Mega Flea Market event and also at Chinatown. “Traffic in the Expo is quite high, so I guess my business is pretty good,” she said.
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