Is it okay to link to the video? Hope so but if not someone will delete it for me.
http://thequiltshow.com/daily-blog/1...f24d64b567d860
If you watch the interviews, many people stood in line for 2 - 3 hours in order to participate in the Sample Spree. Yikes! Not sure I would want to do that either. Some of the tables looked really crowded and some not so much. Apparently the buyers get some really great deals on the items they buy .... I believe they buy the items at "cost" so that is quite a deal. Of course they do have to pay in "time" spent in line so ....
Since these are shop owners they actually already get their orders for shops at cost (wholesale) I think the big deal about this is that the manufacturers have limited supply of the new lines they are showing - a lot of which will not be available for shops to receive until Aug/Sept/Oct, etc. This way they can get a FQ pack and make samples for the store and take advance orders or generate interest before they even get the fabric in the shop OR they can also keep it for their personal use/stash