Is this a ridiculous idea?

[k2togm1]

My brother lives in Spain and has been making some delicious olive oil, he's got 120 ltrs of the stuff from last year.
There is a festival in my town in July where I can have a stall for free if I want to, and I thought about getting him to post some of his olive oil and try selling it there.
Is this just stupid?
What do I need to do?
I don't know anything about the legality of it, health and safety, etc.

It's not stupid at all. I would buy it if I saw it at a fair or festival. It's hard to get decent olive oil anywhere. When I lived in Greece, the local stuff was the best and if I oculd get it here, I would pay a king's ransom for it :-)

I bet there are funny rules about it being a "foodstuff", you'd probably have to label it as "decoration", even though everyone knows it's food.

Also, post?

that would cost quite a bit to transport from spain. would you make enough to justify it?

I'm guessing there would be loads of red tape and regulations. Why dont you find a Market near his home town, go for a holiday and sell it in Spain?

Yes I'd need to check how much it'd be to get it here. I was hoping somebody here knew about all that red tape .

I don't think selling it in Spain would work, they make the stuff themselves and there is plenty of it arround! It would only be special here really, as something that otherwise is quite difficult to get (ie hand-made, etc).

analogue thanks for the encouragmente though!

red tape and regulations?
free market
french restaurants I've done accounts for often do their bulk cheese shopping in France ....

A food handling licence is only about 40 but you would have to look up info on importing. But Orr iOS poster is right it is a free Market so should not be too hard.

TalkinPeace2, cheese, and potatoes! Raymond Blanc brings his chips hand-cutted from France!

Will do that ethelb if I manage to convince dh that it is actually a good idea and that we are not going to end up with litres of the stuff and nowhere to store it...

i'd just go right ahead and sell it. My kids are standing in the street outside our house selling haribos to passers by - they didn't do a health and safety audit! I think labelling it as a decoration is a great idea!