For all you consignment shop owners who would love to explore showcasing local crafts and artists in your shop, here’s an article directed to the artisans on
Consignment Dos, Don’ts, and Must-Knows for Creative Folk
Interesting to hear what these creative people are looking for, what they fear… and to figure out how to deal with them! Any good stories out there, anything you can add that has helped your shop become a go-to MUST for local art? Tell, tell!
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Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
Auntie Kate,
I purchased your books and have followed quite a few of your ideas…a lot of your ideas since opening day on November 25, 2012. I currently have 82 consignors!!! It’s hard work, but it’s fun!!! Thanks for writing such informative books for us newbies…..
Pam, Owner
Classy & Sassy Upscale Consignments
The biggest things I look in selecting handmade goods consignors are not only a unique product but also that they have a good sense of their own costs and what a reasonable selling price should be for our customers. It has to be win-win-win! They consign their goods are receive 60% of the selling price. Two things that I ask of the craftspeople is that they check and replenish their inventory regularly that they help promote that their items are at Little Green Beans – some do and some do not currently. It’s important!
Interesting website. It will be interesting to follow them and see if they’re successful. BTW, I didn’t know either where to post a question so I clicked on the above link (where and why) and it’s not working…
Ronnie, Thanks for your comment. The “sticky” post on our web site (that appears first on our home page, is here presented by itself for easy reading:
https://auntiekate.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/consignment-resale-thrift-shopkeepers-hello/
and the Ask Auntie Kate page, which is one of the tabs in our navigation at the top of every page, gets you https://auntiekate.wordpress.com/ask-auntie-kate/
Not quite sure where you got that link, but isn’t it nice to know that Auntie Kate is sometimes less than perfect and often befuddled? LOL
I know this is off-topic but didn’t know where to post a question.
I think a lot of us would like to know what you think about ThreadFlip.com which opened yesterday. Let us know…
http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/17/threadflip-raises-1-6m/&hl=en&geo=us
Hi Barb,
I know that this site raised a lot of money to fund it, but any place that forces its clientele to do what it wants, isn’t getting my attention. Do YOU require YOUR potential customers to provide you with access to YOUR Facebook account and all your friends’ accounts before you’ll allow them to do anything more than peer into your shop windows? Not conscionable, in my opinion. How do you feel about it?
[Just an FYI: Next time you’d like to ask a question of our community, there’s a better place to ask so it gets maximum exposure and input: Questions? where and why. ]