Reply by americanwoodworker

I visited a store the other day that was dedicated to handcrafted items such as woodworking, jewelry, blankets, bags etc. The people that run it charged local people so much per item, per month, to have it displayed in their store. It was a store reserved specifically for local artist and craftsman.

If you are in a good location for lots of traffic maybe you could open up something similar. This would help you sell your own furniture and with charging people for selling theirs that may help with overhead and revenue.

I will tell you my wife was going to try and sell her jewelry there but they wanted way to much per month. They were charging a monthly fee for it being in the store plus a percentage of the sale. That was going to raise her items up so much that she would never sell anything due to cost. On the other hand they have got to charge monthly because they would get to many items that would take up space. If you could come up with a good formula it may work for you. Maybe something like charging so much per display. Whatever they could fit on that display would be say, $30 a month. The bigger the space they need the more per month. This would keep local artist overhead down while selling, and help supplement yours. Sort of a physical “etsy” store.

Just a thought.

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