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Who’s your Ideal Consignor…Donor…Seller?
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, Thrift on March 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
5 Things your NONconsignor won’t tell you
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, consignors, starting a consignment shop on February 25, 2011| 3 Comments »
Yesterday, we discussed (well, I discussed…have you added your thoughts there yet?) 5 things your consignor won’t tell you.
Now, 5 things your NON-consignor won’t tell you.
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5 Things your consignor won’t tell you
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignment, consignors, success on February 24, 2011| 3 Comments »
Ever wonder what your consignor’s not telling you?
And for consignor, read seller or donor if you’re not a consignment shop. Yes, even those receiving cash on the barrel head, or donating to your nonprofit thrift shop, have unspoken concerns.
We’re not mind-readers. When you tell us we have to choose only 15 items to bring in to you, it’s stressful. Should I include that mink in the batch or will you tell me “no furs”? Are suits 2 pieces or just one? It gets so confusing, I’ll decide just to give everything to my cleaning lady.
We don’t REALLY want to pick things up. But sometimes, your agreement and your web site seem to make us think we have to. What a hassle. We’d much rather just let you donate them.
We want to feel like our things are going to a good home. It’s silly, we know, and we’d be embarrassed if you knew we were thinking this way. After all we’re selling it, right? But we want to feel that you’ll find our underloved possessions a good home. Cuts down on the guilt of passing Mother’s mahogany chest on.
We’re more than willing to brag on you, but we need help. Whether we’re proud of our eco-correctness or excited that we made $250 with no effort, we’re happy to tell others about you. But darn it, what’s your shop called again? Where on Main Street are you? What’s the name of that nice blonde who helped us?
We’d love for you to keep in touch. We like hearing how the shop’s doing, so let us know. Don’t just hand out a check without a little human contact. We like to think our relationship is based on more than money.
Are any of these unspoken concerns, something you could address to make your suppliers feel more comfortable as your business partner?
Also, read 5 Things your NONconsignor won’t tell you.
It’s all relative. And nowhere will you learn that better than in a consignment shop.
Posted in economics of resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, HowToConsign.com on February 2, 2011|
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.
Parker’s photo from http://fashionuncensored.blogspot.com. The chocolate bar is gently-bitten.“Do you consign? I do, here’s why.”
Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged consignors, resale shopkeeping on December 13, 2010|
Great little blog entry from a consignor’s point of view. <Click to see what she has to say. I love “eavesdropping” on our audience like this, don’t you?
And she mentions something that really got me thinking.
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