Trying out the Consignment Route #2: And away we go!

Good luck to you on this venture, Bob. I really hope that you do well. Your work is so nice and it would be great to see you make a little extra doing something that you love to do. Did you bring any of your puzzles? Or was is mostly portraits? Keep us posted on how things are and YES! add pictures when you get them.

Have a great day!

Sheila

-- Contributing Editor, Creative Woodworks and Crafts, Sheila Landry Designs http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com "Knowledge is Power"

I did bring up both a playing card puzzle and the dollar bill one to show. They were impressed with them but were mostly interested in the portraits. I think they have more wall space than shelf space.

That’s all good though – I like giving those puzzles away – makes me feel good. ;-)

-bob

-- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle http://www.ffrf.org

Thanks for the update. This will be interesting to see how it develops.

It seems to me that the portraits are a natural winner for sales of this type. A lot of people have walls that could use some sprucing up. And like the say ‘anything Beatles’.

And Man, it has been hot! Yucky!
Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Good luck with this, Bob. I look forward to further developments.

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good luck :-)

Dennis

Do you mind telling us what kind of prices things are set at and what their commision is by percentage? The reason I ask is I tried the consignment shop route once upon a time. I had the prices set just as absolutely as low as I could possible go (my cut after their commission). If I’d gone any lower I’d had rather used the portraits as firewood than to sell them. Still though, after a month, they were begging me to go lower. I politely explained that the only way I could lower the price was if they were to lower their commision percentage. After the ninety day contract was up, I pulled my items.
There was one other guy that I know of selling scrolled portraits. I don’t like to put down anyone else’s work, but you could put mine and his beside each other and tell who took more time on their work. He was selling a lot of portraits, at ten buck a piece (shop price, so he made less after commission). There was no way I could compete with that price, and wasn’t about to try either.

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