[ISLMA-Share] Tabletop book fair

Wed Sep 21 15:23:41 CDT 2016

I remember helping years ago...before they had cash registers. It took
extra people to check people out, because you had to figure out the tax. I
usually have people standing in a line, continuously, for the entire time.
We aren't going to have a fair if they won't provide a register. I think
the Scholastic company is going to regret this move.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I was also told 2 years ago that if you don't have enough in sales that
> you will have to do a table top fair. Needless to say I cut my ties with
> Scholastic. I am still looking for a good high school fair company.
>
> On Sep 21, 2016 8:54 AM, "Email list for the Illinois School Library Media
> Association" <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> You can take credit cards through the book fair toolkit. I just looked
>> into it yesterday, since my fair is supposed to be here Friday. You have to
>> type in their name and credit card info. If they give you an email address,
>> it will send them a receipt. We’re supposed to get an email with daily
>> receipts of credit card sales. I was told we just need to add up all the
>> cash at the end and send that to Scholastic, we don’t need to keep track of
>> what we’re selling.
>>
>>
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>> *From:* islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info [mailto:
>> islma-bounces at list.railslibraries.info] *On Behalf Of *Email list for
>> the Illinois School Library Media Association
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 21, 2016 8:41 AM
>> *To:* Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association
>> *Subject:* Re: [ISLMA-Share] Tabletop book fair
>>
>>
>>
>> I have run our book fair during our chili supper the last few years. (I
>> am in a classroom now, so I don't get to have it during the school day.) I
>> have been informed about a "tabletop" fair also. During the chili supper
>> I'm supposed to be open for two hours. I stand and check people out
>> continuously for at least 2.5 hours. There is absolutely no way that I
>> would even want to consider running a fair without the register.  Most of
>> the parents want to use debit or credit cards. (They are used to being able
>> to use them now.) Does anyone else fell this way, and what response have
>> you gotten from Scholastic?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Cheryl B
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>> One of our smaller schools used the tabletop book fair.  It seemed to
>> work okay, but I know if you don't have a percentage of sales, Scholastic
>> will make it a tabletop one. We put ours in an empty classroom.  I was not
>> involved--the PTO ran it.   The selection was limited and did not include
>> older titles.
>>
>> Nancy Genteman
>>
>> Highland CUSD#5
>>
>> Highland, IL
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> I'm curious if you all are experiencing this because of your sales
>> volume.  I was told 2 years ago that I had to go to "box" fairs.  I had
>> several problems with that including the fact that they WOULD NOT send me
>> the more mature titles I wanted (the ones that sold well).  I talked them
>> into letting me keep the cart fairs.  Are they getting rid of cart fairs
>> completely?  I don't have space OR tables to do a box fair.  Opening those
>> carts and selling was so simple.  Not sure what I'll do now.
>>
>> Connie
>>
>>
>> Connie Workman
>>
>> VIT CUSD #2
>>
>> Table Grove, IL  61482
>>
>> cworkman at vit2.org
>>
>> (309) 758-5138
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>> We just set up a tabletop this afternoon. It looks good but were unable
>> to use many of the table top displays as we have mostly free-standing table
>> and I am afraid of the displays getting knocked over. My big disappointment
>> is no cash register. It's like going back to the 1980s. Very
>> time-consumming.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> So this year is the first year that I will be having the tabletop book
>> fair by Scholastic. Has anyone had one yet? I have had the "big-case" book
>> fairs for the past 3 years and loved them. Now Scholastic throws this at me
>> and says that there won't be cases or a cash register. I am a bit afraid of
>> the unknown when it comes to this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any pointers? Any advice?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Mr. Tim Yoder*
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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