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Shopping resale online… infinite variations

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on December 14, 2012| 2 Comments »

Consignment selling onlineA nice summary article from The New York Times about shopping consignment/ resale online.

How can you use these companies’ high-flying concepts

to improve the shopping and supplying aspects of your shop, or to make the online shopping you have on your web site more productive? After all, these folks have big money and marketing brains behind them, and we can do some electronic brain picking right from the comfort of our homes/ shops/ couches.

Take a look. Update: The NYT now limits access to their past articles unless you pay for (caution, pun approaching) … second-hand news. We’d love to hear what you take away from your study of these companies. Take a minute to share in the comments below!

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Here’s a week-after-Christmas idea for your consignment shop.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on December 13, 2012| 5 Comments »

Turn bad gifts into good charity with the help of consignment shopsOkay. Right after Christmas, there’s this flurry of gift returns, right? The sweater that’s the wrong color or size, the gadget she hasn’t the faintest intention of ever using, and so on. Of course not everything can be returned, and many folks feel guilty about doing so.

Then there’s the perfectly-good items that get stashed away in place of the new and highly-coveted gifts: the old stroller replaced by the jazzy new model, the lamp that has to make way for the one she really wanted…. and people feel guilty (and cluttered!) in those cases too.

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A customer is the gift you give yourself…

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on December 12, 2012|

A hliday card that will be rememberedChances are, there are a few customers, consignors, supplies, donors or volunteers whose very presence in your business life you are truly grateful for.

I hope you have dozens.

The only way to really thank them (more…)

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Deja Vuesday: Making those BIG Price Reductions

Posted in Deja Vuesday, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on December 11, 2012|

After all, some Auntie Kate messages are, ahem, Too Good to be Threw!

Click the image for more Deja Vuesday posts that are too good to be threw from TGtbT.com

Deja Vuesday

where you can visit a gently-used, recycled, and even restyled blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around.

Well, soon it will be time to clear your consignment, resale, thrift decks of all-things-winter. I’m sure you have your seasonal clearance sale all planned out, but before (more…)

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Are you overworking your elves?

Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on December 10, 2012|

Shop elves work hard in consignment, resale and thrift shops!In consignment, resale, and thrift shops, busy selling times, extended holiday hours, even a simple special event promotion might

put your staff into overtime.

In other shops, employees might be swapping normal shifts to accommodate family celebrations and travel plans.

Make sure (more…)

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