Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

I had a consignor whose husband owned a local, large, and public company. One day, this woman consigned a NWT item she’d bought mere weeks earlier for $1300. She couldn’t be bothered, she implied, to return it to the luxury merchant where she’d bought it, so she’d just let me sell it…for whatever.

I was stunned. $1300 was more than a month’s rent to me, and she was willing to take the small percentage I could get her for this?

That night, I did some back-of-the-envelope figuring. I knew how much her husband earned as a salary because the corporation was public. I compared it to what I was earning.

That $1300, as a percentage of her family’s earned income, was the equivalent of a 59-cent candy bar to me.

No wonder she couldn’t be bothered to return it. I’ve never returned a Hershey’s bar in my life.

Here’s hoping some consignors like that find your shop through your listing on HowToConsign.com’s Clickable Map & Directory.