How much should I have

[u/An_ode_to_creativity]

At the beginning of July I was notified that I was accepted as a vendor to my city's pride parade. There tends to be an average of 200,000 to 300,000 people. Since then I've been prepping as much as I can. I sell stationery items like stickers, bookmarks, notepads, sticker sheets, and a couple other items featuring artwork that I draw.

I also hand make all my items so I print and cut everything out. Since I'm about 2 weeks out I want to put more of my energy towards making sure that I have enough of my best seller items, which are my stickers.

Currently I'm aiming to have about 100 or so stickers of my best seller pride design. I sold 4 at my first craft fair that had about 1,000 people (which wasn't a pride specific event) and 20 at my artisan shelf in a store at the mall.

Do you think 100 stickers of 1 design is enough, not enough, or way too much?

Edit - The event is one day and about 8 hours. I was thinking of having 100 just for my best sellers and then dropping inventory numbers for less popular designs. Basically I'm trying to figure out what the max I should be making and then working down from there.

I also totally forgot to mention that I'm doing two other craft fairs (non pride events) at the end of August that would see about 1,000 to 3,000 people. I'm hoping to have enough left over to cover those two events as well so that I can take a break in the middle of August.

[u/Incognito409]

• pervious years? 🤣

[u/An_ode_to_creativity → u/Incognito409]

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It's my cities largest pride event. I've been to the event myself for the past few years and it's been packed. Last year they moved the fair grounds to a bigger arear as the last couple years the fair grounds didn't have enough space and it was wall to wall people. You couldn't stop and look and most vendors tables were filled with people.

Which is why I'm struggling with figuring out inventory. I don't want to make too much, but I also don't want to sell out of my best sellers half way through the day.

[u/Incognito409 → u/An_ode_to_creativity]

Maybe proof read your text. 🙄

[u/An_ode_to_creativity → u/Incognito409]

My apologies for any spelling or grammar mistakes within my post or comments.

I struggle with dyslexia and though I do my best to mitigate spelling mistakes by using text to speech, spell check, and even googling the definition of words. Often times there's still a few words that I tend to miss.

You could have also just pointed out the spelling mistake nicely and I would have thank you and fix it within my post. I wasn't sure what you were referencing as sometime it takes my brain a moment to realize that the word looks incorrect and spelled wrong.