Equipment Swap/Flea Market Meeting Idea. Ok to do?

[mscommerce]

I know in other countries, photo club gear enthusiasts regularly organize swap meets and flea markets, where they bring their Want-To-Sell items to a common place, and club members can easily check out each other's gear for sale.

This is a very efficient way of buying and selling, as all buyers and sellers have to organize only one trip (to the common meeting place), rather than contact each other individually, as wel do on the marketplace column.

Is this possible to do for ClubSnap casually? Or do we have to get special permission from the authorities and so on?

I notice that some places (Tanglin Mall, area near Sim Lim Tower etc. ) now have small scale sales of used goods, usually clothing, for foreign workers and so on. So it must be possible to organize.

Any information that you can contribute to this thread welcome. :bsmilie:

 

[Stoned]

Yup its a good idea but i think you'd need permission from the authorities unless its done at someone's place...

 

[acroamatic]

Permission from authorities... geez...

And they wonder why there aren't more entreprenuers in Singapore.

 

[nightwolf75]

ermm.... dats the reason why CS has SEED?

http://forum.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=660

 

[J.J]

I notice that some places (Tanglin Mall, area near Sim Lim Tower etc. ) now have small scale sales of used goods, usually clothing, for foreign workers and so on. So it must be possible to organize.

Any information that you can contribute to this thread welcome. :bsmilie:

Places like Tanglin Mall and Clark Quay ect ect.. need to pay money.. I think it's bout $45 per day. 11am-6pm. Do you think ppl here are interested to pay $45 just to trade 1 lens and with ppl bargaining at your face?

Unless you can find a kind soul for ppl or even some of the small retailers to exploit.

 

[blurblock]

Yup its a good idea but i think you'd need permission from the authorities unless its done at someone's place...

Don't think you need permission to do that, it is treated as people with common interest meeting each other to share information, it is neither political or racial in nature.

Singapore, although is a tightly controlled country, is not as suffocating as needing permission to meet people with common interest

 

[nemesis32]

Don't think you need permission to do that, it is treated as people with common interest meeting each other to share information, it is neither political or racial in nature.

Singapore, although is a tightly controlled country, is not as suffocating as needing permission to meet people with common interest

While, you never know. Police may treat it as illegal gathering if you have more than 50 people!

Anyway, as mentioned by one of the CSers, in Singapore, we only do things when we were told it's ok to do. In HK/China, they do things (whatever things) until they were told not to do. That's entrepreneurship!

 

[mscommerce]

ermm.... dats the reason why CS has SEED?

http://forum.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=660

OIC.


But I thought SEED was a get-together and joint shopping trips to Peninsula Plaza etc. Do you folks actually buy and sell stuff from each other on the spot?

 

[mscommerce]

Places like Tanglin Mall and Clark Quay ect ect.. need to pay money.. I think it's bout $45 per day. 11am-6pm. Do you think ppl here are interested to pay $45 just to trade 1 lens and with ppl bargaining at your face?

Unless you can find a kind soul for ppl or even some of the small retailers to exploit.

Nah, I just mentioned those places as examples of small scale swap trading, and selling.

I'm not proposing we lay out our precious gear on the dusty pavement for people to look at, just a gathering of CSers

 

[zapp!]

Just use SEED if it is just small transaction...its just like buy and sell people all meeting up on the same day to deal. Dun think we need to register or anything like that...

 

[sequitur]

While, you never know. Police may treat it as illegal gathering if you have more than 50 people!

Anyway, as mentioned by one of the CSers, in Singapore, we only do things when we were told it's ok to do. In HK/China, they do things (whatever things) until they were told not to do. That's entrepreneurship!

i think my a police friend of mine once told me that as long as it's more than 5 people it's already an illegal gathering - but obviously you draw the line between illegal and legal properly...

 

[hongsien]

Actually these swap meetings have been held in Singapore a few times at community clubs! I was involved in one of the first ones, we had the support from mr Teh Tien Yew that time who was at the Contax distributor here (forgotthe companies name). Also TCW was helping us by being there to attract the crowd....it was then held on two days in the weekend off course at the community club/center in Chinatown. Diagonally opposite the chinese cinema........the photography club of this comunity center also organised one athering last year (or the year before) in the same place. People who want to organise this again can try contacting the community clubs, especially those that have a photography club, they might be helpful and offer a lower price for hiring the space, OR if you use the space OUTSIDE the rooms (around the staircases etc), it might be even free!

Hong Sien

 

[blurblock]

i think my a police friend of mine once told me that as long as it's more than 5 people it's already an illegal gathering - but obviously you draw the line between illegal and legal properly...

There is a clause behind, with the indention of illegal transacation.

 

[haohan]

Go to speaker's corner.. then it is not illegal gathering right?

 

[mscommerce]

Speaker's Corner:

1. Have to apply/notify in advance at Kreta Ayer Police Station nearby.
2. OK only for speech, not buying and selling.
3. Police representative will note down speech, to ensure that it is within the limits of the law.
4. Idle gossip about 2OO Megapixel Nikon D9x, EOS 9Dssss Mark XVIII prohibited!

OK, OK, 1-3 true, 4 false! :bsmilie:

I'll look into this. Expat ladies organizing textile, handicraft, cake sales all the time at home, in clubs, shopping centres, hotels. Also schools do book sales.

 

[Yeowww]

its a good idea.

anyone interested can come and feel free to browse whatever that are on sale, CSers or not... n the buyer may have a wider choice/selection. then can bargain, n transact there and then.....

 

[reachme2003]

i think my a police friend of mine once told me that as long as it's more than 5 people it's already an illegal gathering - but obviously you draw the line between illegal and legal properly...

not forgetting the intent of persons forming a gathering which is deemed illegal. eg. intent to break the peace and/or damage properties or instil fear in people there.

 

[obviousdude]

let's not get carried away here with interpreting the letter of the law.

the law may spell out that a gathering of 5 or more people is an illegal gathering, but the cops don't crack down on such gatherings when they feel like it.

i mean, image a bunch of 12 yr olds getting herded into a police van for gathering at their favorite shopping centre. :bsimlie:

the clause is in place so that it the event something not quite right is suspected, the police have an avenue to take action.

ie, it's safe to gather, otherwise most our our photoshoots and sungei buloh gatherings will be illegal too.

 

[reachme2003]

let's not get carried away here with interpreting the letter of the law.

the law may spell out that a gathering of 5 or more people is an illegal gathering, but the cops don't crack down on such gatherings when they feel like it.

i mean, image a bunch of 12 yr olds getting herded into a police van for gathering at their favorite shopping centre. :bsimlie:

the clause is in place so that it the event something not quite right is suspected, the police have an avenue to take action.

ie, it's safe to gather, otherwise most our our photoshoots and sungei buloh gatherings will be illegal too.

obviousdude, you are spot on.