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I have been running the Scholastic Book Fairs for my school for the last
four years. Presently we sell about $21,000 with a cash profit of 20% and
then book profit of 10%. I was just told that we will be receiving boxes of
books to hand out to our teachers for viewing the video and other activities
that we do to promote the fair. I was not real excited about this and I know
my teachers will complain when they find out. Our fair is October 20th. I
know we sell more then most schools and we sometimes get better attention
but I am not happy about the new incentives. The fair will be run as usual
but they will be hearing from us when it is over. If their answer is not to
our satisfaction we will consider another company. There are two fairs a
year at our school. The second fair is only slightly less in sales then the
first. With the amount of time and effort we put into these fairs they don't
need to be getting skimpy on incentives. They are also delivering our fair
earlier and picking it up later than we asked. This can be helpful and
frustrating at the same time. This is convenient for them but can be a
problem for us since space is an issue at our school and I have selected
preview days and selling days. It's nice having the books arrive early but
if we are not prepared to start selling what's the use. We'll see what
happens.


Karen White
Creek View Elementary School
Alpharetta, GA
Media Paraprofessional

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