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Trade day was pretty interesting in that most traders themselves as well as press will visit almost every stall having pretty informed and deep conversations about what's on display and what's being sold, etc.
It's way quieter than the public days, but in one way way busier because more people are stopping by and talking for longer.
One of the most basic differences is that all price lists on trade days include trade prices. Some margins are shockingly small (I saw a couple of hybrids that would give a shop virtually no income) and some margins are horrifically large (a few pieces of bike porn had several thousands added on as markup). So fairly obviously, a lot of buyers are there on trade day, but I imagine that's more for the small shops as I'm guessing that larger shops and chains are sold to directly by the distributors.