The people seeking to ban the Confederate flag may actually be having the opposite effect.

Sales have been booming across the country, including at this weekend’s Jamboree In The Hills festival in Morristown, Ohio.

“It’s 500 times what it was, without exaggerating,” says Dave Nippert of Lou’s Wholesale. “We could’ve done well marketing nothing but Rebel stuff.”

He says he stocked up on Confederate flags, clothing and other items in anticipation of the demand. He tells The Intelligencer he’s only had one person complain and people of “various races” make purchases.

“People don’t like being told what they can and can’t have,” he says.

Meanwhile, Larry Ballentine’s stand outside the Iowa Speedway is seeing huge sales, as well.

He tells NBC 13, 95% of his sales are of a variation of the Confederate flag, which has an eagle in the middle.

He says he can’t find the real Rebels flag because his supplier doesn’t have them. The only way he’ll stop selling it is when “somebody buys all of my inventory.”

“I’m just a business man and what sells makes money,” according to Ballentine.

State fairs and concert venues have been trying to block sales of the flag.

The Ohio State Fair has banned sales of the flag and related merchandise this year.

“The Ohio State Fair has long held a policy that prohibits the sale of merchandise that contains offensive wording, lettering or graphics,” General Manager Virgil L. Strickler writes in a letter to vendores, according to the Dayton Daily News. “As such, beginning with the 2015 Ohio State Fair, the sale or display of Confederate flags and/or Confederate flag merchandise shall be prohibited.”

The agriculture society – which runs the fair – took the action despite receiving zero complaints.

“At this point, we haven’t had any real issues,” according to Gene Steiner, president of the board.

The University of Utah’s Red Butte Garden hosted Hank Williams, Jr. for a concert this week — a decision they now regret, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Vendors were selling rebel merchandise and Red Butte’s executive director, Greg Lee, asked them to stop. They declined.

That caused Lee to decide the venue will no longer book “divisive” performers.

“I think it’s safe to say that we probably wouldn’t have booked this act, if we had known everything that we now know.”

The paper claims “some” Hank Williams, Jr. concertgoers were “dismayed” with the Confederate merchandise sales.