Folkandbespoke Reviews 

Reply from Folkandbespoke

Sep 21, 2026

I’m sorry you came away disappointed, but I do need to respond to this review because several of the statements made are simply not accurate.

To suggest that there was “zero marketing” is completely untrue. A considerable amount of time, effort and money goes into promoting every Folk & Bespoke event, including this one. We use paid advertising, social media, our website, newsletters, event listings and our own customer audience to promote our events. We invest heavily in this because we want our events to succeed just as much as the traders do.

The suggestion of “almost no signage” is also not an accurate reflection of the event. We provide event signage and actively work to make our markets visible and accessible to visitors.

I also find the statement that “virtually every vendor was there for the first time because no one ever returns” particularly misleading. Our events have many returning makers and long-standing stallholders, and the fact that some traders may be attending a particular venue for the first time certainly does not mean that “no one ever returns”.

As for “under 20 people for the entire day”, I’m not sure how that figure was reached, but it is not a figure we would recognise as an accurate representation of visitor numbers.

Most importantly, the suggestion that organisers “just take the pitch money and disappear” is unfair and does not reflect the reality of what goes into putting these events on. There is a huge amount of work behind every event — finding and booking venues, dealing with applications and stallholders, administration, advertising, marketing, logistics, customer communication and being there throughout the event itself. We certainly do not simply collect pitch fees and disappear.

We also have to be realistic about how events work. We can provide the venue, organise the event and invest substantially in attracting visitors, but no event organiser can guarantee individual traders a particular level of footfall or sales. Vendors are also businesses in their own right and have a role in promoting the events they attend to their own customers and followers.

It is particularly disappointing when an event doesn't perform as a trader hoped, but that doesn't make it reasonable to make statements about the organiser that are factually incorrect.

We genuinely welcome constructive feedback and always look at what we can do better. But there is a significant difference between saying “I had a disappointing trading day” and stating that there was “zero marketing”, “almost no signage” and that organisers simply “take the pitch money and disappear”. Those statements do not reflect the work that went into this event.

I’m sorry the event wasn't successful for you, but I don't believe this review gives an accurate or fair picture of either the event or the work undertaken by Folk & Bespoke to promote and deliver it.