help needed with meaning of quoting rent/service charge/rateable value/rents payable?

chalkie99

As the rateable value is quite low you should qualify for a year effectively rate free from October 1 2010 until September 30 2011.(As do all small businesses following the amendments in the last budget).

Owain_Moneysaver

**dancingbutterfly** wrote: »

Id never thought about it like that! The other trader has a massive plethora of brands, and his prices are probably a bit more than id charge and his stall also looks very shabby, there's no pos or anything just baskets of makeup shoved on a table. For example the perfume boxes he's had for a while i think as the boxes are very battered and torn.

Sounds like his stock isn't moving very quickly.

Thing about a market is it's a low initial cost, although at first you may not be guaranteed a pitch as a 'casual', and you might need to buy a stall/tarp and initial stock it's a lot less outlay than fitting out a shop unit.

If you can do makeovers at home, makeup for weddings etc then having the market stall might be a good advertisement for the makeover side of the business. (And local portrait photographers might be worth approaching, if they need clients made up before photo sessions. You might even offer a makeover+portrait package between you.)