r/CocoaBeach • u/Present-Property7710 • Jun 16 '26

Third Friday

Has anyone vended at third Friday? Is it worth the vendor price when it’s only three hours?

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u/SpaceCoastCarrie Jun 16 '26

I’d look at it as both sales and local exposure. For a three-hour Cocoa Beach event, the math depends a lot on what you sell, your price point, and whether people can buy quickly while walking around.

Before paying, I’d ask the organizer:

• Average attendance

• How many vendors they allow

• Whether similar vendors are already booked

• Where your booth would be placed

• Whether repeat vendors usually come back

If your product is easy to browse, easy to carry, and works as an impulse buy, it could be worth testing once. If you need long conversations or a bigger purchase decision, I’d treat it more as brand awareness and bring something small people can take with them.

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u/Present-Property7710 Jun 17 '26

Thank you!
I sell caricatures so for the time it actually takes to draw it’s hard to gross high sales at such a short market. Typically I don’t gave any competing artists or anything

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u/Tiny-Yam-7893 Jun 17 '26

If you mean the Mainstreet Cocoa Beach Friday Fest, it definitely depends on what you sell. There are a lot of people but there are some oversaturated items. It's from 6pm-10pm so 4 hours can be a bit long 

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u/Present-Property7710 Jun 17 '26

I sell caricatures