Market Places - Favorite things to sell

[Nanner]

Question: Do folks place markets in their villages very often? If so, what type(s) are your favorites?

I placed a market about a year (game time) ago and went with the food franchise. I've been able to keep it up and running year round because I have top shelf hunters/fishers and cooks. With a growing wine and mead trade, business is good and I am having a blast. Now that the kids are growing up, they are helping out around town and training for the future. In fact the future is so bright I've been on a look out for shades :-)

[Morri]

So far with my slow playstyle and low population, I'm trying the additional challenge of only selling stuff that make sense (So no selling 200+ knives to everyone etc). Therefor I would prefer to use the market stall only for things that were crafted in my village or sensible useful stuff.
So atm I'm selling excess feathers and furs, to fill pillows and make beds softer.
Anyone can use that right? :-)

Once I have a bigger village I might focus on baskets and vases and the likes. But that's for in the future.
Atm I'm struggling to get by and pay my 1000% taxes :p
And I can't spare my one villager for the marketstall since I need him to cut wood 24/7 (still low skill in extraction atm).

But I'm having a lot of fun this way. I don't like it when the game gets too easy.

[Lailantie]

I build market stalls as soon as they get unlocked. I'm kindof the opposite of Morri, I'm lazy and I like things easy. At the moment (year 8, 2 days per season) I have two market stalls, one selling leather torches (hand crafted in my workshop), the other linen seed.

In other savegames in the later games I usually had around 15 market stalls selling whatever overflow I had (mostly food and clothing).

[Karl]

I guess i am something between of two of you. I have 500% tax to pay, 3 days per season, 140 buildings and iI have 20 market stalls selling goods(mostly prepeared food). Time to time I still can't sell all the goods I produce and same time i want to build in my village something beautiful, then i change my season time to 30 days.

[Kwalyz]

I decided that once I unlocked market stalls I would no longer sell anything to the NPC vendors myself and only sell goods via the market stalls. I do like to keep my villagers work load at 100% but I don't want an excessive amount of goods to build up therefore I have several market stalls to manage this task:
* tools = primarily to sell the unwanted tools I've picked up as I explore the map each season. Also to sell the wooden bolts & horseshoes I get my smithy to make.
* resources = primarily to sell excess seeds and manure and any other excess resource (currently feathers and fertiliser)
* clothing - one or two assigned to clothing. To sell what my seamsters' produce as well as items I pick up whilst exploring. My seamsters' make fur shoes (which uses up leather & fur my hunters collect), pouches (which use leather and tin bars, left over after my smiths switched to making mostly iron tools) and a hood (from wool products, can't remember the specific name)
* food - I decided I wanted to minimise the amount of food that turned to rot (and not have my villagers eating anything that will poison them - it's a role-playing choice, I do know they don't get affected by poison.) So I have many stalls devoted to selling excess food and alter what they sell if some food will start to spoil the next season: I usually have two for cheese, one to three stalls to sell the goods my tavern makes (mead, rye beer, apple juice, plum wine, pear wine), one to sell the dried meat and dried fish my villagers make.
* herbs - when my herbalists have made a large amount of potions that I do not use myself then I will convert one of my stalls to sell herbs so I can sell the potions to clear the resource shed of them. I set my herbalists to make potions in winter, so every couple of years I will have enough potions to occupy a stall selling potions for a season.

I've placed my village along a couple of the roads and set the stalls along these roads between houses - therefore my villagers travel past them when they are heading to and from their work places and the seats I have placed for them. The children tend to be near them when playing as their houses are close by.