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On 1/7/04 9:45 AM,"animaux" posted:
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 20:58:00 -0500, Ellice opined: Those are pretty much your options - either find a better shop to do consignment with, get a written and reasonable agreement, sell your stuff wholesale and just deal with letting the shops charge accordingly, or sell retail directly yourself - if you have some events that are within reason for you to attend - and you just gear up for those. Hope that helped. ellice Thank you Ellice. Your suggestions are wonderfully helpful. I think I give people the benefit of the doubt, but clearly I am being screwed and this shop owner knows it. She has no idea how smart I am. I play dumb. I'm hardly dumb. You're very welcome. Glad to read that you found a sale to a shop. It's a toss up with things like this - how much time you want to spend in the marketing, retailing, vs the making. And shop owners are just a cross-section of humanity - you find the good, the bad and the in-between. When I started the little business with the idea of painting canvas, there was plenty more to learn - I rapidly found out. Business is just handled a bit differently than my prior world of science R&D. Just the whole thing about labelling your pieces - and being sure that you don't put a price on them. Furthermore - I was told not to put a phone number or the like on the label - as shops don't want people contacting the designers directly. So, the thing is - have a label, so LNS can write the price on the canvas (regular price gun stickers just don't stick), have the designer name, and that's pretty much it. Interesting. Hence, a lot of canvas designer web-sites, like many XS designers, will have pictures of their work, but no prices - just info about the piece, and links to shops that carry them, or a shop that has an arrangement for referral and doing phone or web orders. I can't believe the shop owner thought you were dumb - doing a shy, retiring wall-flower routine? ;^) Anyhow, good luck whatever you decide for the future with this. Send me a note off-line - if you want we could talk about me showing some of your stuff, repping at the big needlework market in June (not doing January - illness, conflicts in the way). Ellice |
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