I saw this IG caption the other day where dude was like…’everybody only shares their successes on IG, nobody shares their failures’ and I was thinking like…’um, sir, have you seen my account?’ This is a post about failure. And then I made a list of *my* failures as the Sneaker Savant and wondered which of those would be interesting enough to talk about…and then I remembered…something that happened less than 2 weeks ago. Here's what happened: I met this dude @geekoutelite_llc selling Pokemon cards at a local flea market and he told me about this ‘Sneakers and Anime’ event thing he was putting on…I’ve never done an event and I figured this would be a great event to gauge interest for my sneaker trading cards that we’ve created. So I bought my vendor pass and organized my stuff for ~2+ weeks, even drawing out sketches of how I wanted the table to look. I bought some banners and signs and marked price tags in preparation. In short, *planned* for this event. The night before, this dude sends out an email at 11:30pm…CANCELING the event “due to [him] being in the hospital” for some unknown reason. Ok. Is there no one else that can run it? I’m pissed off and frustrated. But it just so happens my buddy @orangevalevintage is doing @worldsworstexpo just a few miles away and tells me I can post up at his booth if I want. I rush down there with a backpack full of stuff, my chair and table…I find parking a few blocks away, and set up my little stand in the back of his booth. I get a few people asking about the cards, but no one is buying. It’s cool, tho, I’m having a good time watching and just observing how my buddies successful business is going… Finally…one guy comes and is looking over the cards…and he says ‘let me get that Paris card’ and hands me exactly $1. My first *in person* dollar ever. I give the dude a pack of #DunkyDunks for the hell of it. A bit more time goes by before I decide to pack it in and call it a day…I had a literal $1 sales day. How’s that for a failure?