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Large Consignment Sale Attracts Moms

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Omaha Moms: A Consignment Sale Worth Visiting

Limited-time, seasonal consignment sales, which typically pay consignors 70% and even more, are proliferating wildly in this economy.

Renting a large, easily-accessible location with good parking (often a community meeting hall) and working with well-developed methods of attracting volunteer workers and online software, these sales can, if nothing else, cause your shop a momentary glitch in market share. At best, retail consignment or buy-outright shops will spend some time and energy “justifying” why they aren’t giving consignors such a deal!

How to work with seasonal sales events

KNOW YOUR COMPETITION:
Take some time to explore seasonal sale web sites. The more you know, the better you can work with/ face up to these wildly-popular sales.

CONSIDER “JOINING” THEM. As you research these sites, zero in on how you can mutually help one another. The seasonal consignment sale can be, for many consumers, their first step in the door of recycling their underloved items…and you can grab ‘em up. There are many avenues for participating in these events mentioned there, and you can probably come up with even better arrangements.

GOT your ducks in a row? Can you explain to your clients, if you’re asked, in words polite and carefully-crafted, how it’s to their disadvantage to participate in such sales?  Do they REALLY want to do all that work for just a few day’s exposure to customers?

There are two ways to approach this situation: Lick ’em or join ’em. Which will you do?