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July 7, 2014 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

“What’s it worth?” is always the question, right?

TGtbT.com finds another resource for helping you price consignment goods

Click for “Accepting & Pricing”, one of our best-sellers in our TGtbT Products for the Professional Resaler

Whether you are consignment, resale or donations-only thrift, it all comes down to

How much can we sell this for?

While many factors go into determination of what something will sell for in your business (location, traffic patterns, reputation, size of marketplace, even how much space you have to keep something on the sales floor until the right customer comes along), many shopkeepers like to have a starting point for their staffers. Just one of the concepts explored in our

 Money-Wise Guide to Accepting & Pricing from TGtbT.com.

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Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk | Tagged consignors, customers, resale shopkeeping | 2 Comments

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  1. on July 8, 2014 at 6:47 pm thefashionsafari's avatar thefashionsafari

    Thanks so much for the info. I am going to download the RealReal app and give it a try.


    • on July 8, 2014 at 6:56 pm Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw's avatar Auntie Kate

      I would too, Safari… but first I have to buy a smart phone. Ya know, if they’d named it “smart but not as smart as you”, I’d have bought one earlier. But the thought of owning something that everyone calls “smart” intimidates me LOL



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