Who’s Next in the Consignment Biz?

Why, it’s those very TV broadcasters you’re always trying to befriend!
Yes, indeedy-do: Someone’s taken consignment to the airwaves…sorta. All those solid-color, conservative suits and jackets are finding

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HowToConsign on a ROLL….

Is this cool or what? #1 on Google Alerts too!
This Auntie Kate blog entry from yesterday about HTC made top billing in Google Blog Alerts… and of course, you know that AuntieKate the Blog has an extensive list of Shop Blogs from our Treasured Sponsors (see lower right of this page!)

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$1,000,000 profit in 7 years

These folks raised enough to give away a million dollars over seven years.
Elite Repeat will reach $1 million in money given to local agencies
This month, as the resale store celebrates its seventh anniversary, it will give away its $1 millionth dollar. Who exactly will receive the $1 millionth might be difficult to say, but [...]

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How this consignment story takes me back!

Back in the 1950’s and the ’60’s and even later, it was not at all uncommon for a woman to have little or no spending money under her private control.
This was brought home to me as the only girl-child of a fiercely independent woman, most vividly in my mother’s consignment shops.
One of my mother’s shops, [...]

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Resale in the News, in the Spotlight, and in the GROW-lights

Travel article about Boston from the AP, “Visitors who like fun and frugality will like Boston”…
All the regular stuff, Fenway Park, Liberty Trail, the Big Dig and Cambridge…
And two paragraphs on High Fashion/ Low Prices: The FIRST, and longer, paragraph on consignment, resale, and vintage clothing. In the shorter, second paragraph: oh yeh, Filene’s basement, [...]

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Oldie but Better than Ever Goodie

That Challenge to all Consignment and Resale Shops? It was a good idea in July. It’s an even better one in November.
For those of you who are taking advantage of the recent intense media interest in our resale / consignment / thrift store industry, how many

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International Resale Day July 18 2009

Did you miss it? Fair Trade Consignment in Peoria AZ didn’t.
Here’s the postcard Kim used…great design. Putting those snippets of “call to action” in the Earth rays is a great idea!
International Resale Day is July 18 every year. A date specifically chosen so that each resale, consignment, or thrift store can focus on

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Resale? Consignment? Thrift? What’s the deal here?

So many people are exploring secondhand shops now, what with a poor economy and what with trying to shop locally to save gas, that I have been overwhelmed with requests about what the terms resale, consignment, and thrift mean.
There’s an explanation on the

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Does Resale make YOUR Heart Race?

Resale, thrift, and consignment shops are my retail suppliers of choice. I would no sooner go first to a “real” store before checking out the secondhand possibilities, than I would rip up 20-dollar bills.
And not really only for budgetary reasons. Sure, a major perk of latching onto others’ cast-off treasures is that my money gets [...]

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Helping teens find their personal style

An article FULL of good ideas to help you focus on teens, if that’s a demographic you would like your shop to appeal to. I reproduce it here for fear the newspaper site will ax it soon as “stale news”, but to see the original, at least for a while, visit SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER.
I LOVE [...]

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Hurricane Katrina could not defeat the resale industry

On this, the 2nd anniversary of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and its surrounding areas, take a look at how resalers reacted:
Katrina could not defeat resale: Including how Carolyn of Baja Rosi’s Consignment Cabana, and Deb of Designs by Deb, helped out.
Other pages we used to band together 2 [...]

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You’d never know by looking?

Headline from a newspaper article on shopping consignment:
Fashion on a budget: You’d never know by looking at her
Comment on a parenting blog:
You wouldn’t know it by looking at them, but about 90% of what Punky and Bruiser wear came from consignment sales.
Do people really think those who shop consignment or resale will look “different”? And [...]

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The saga continues

My, my. Doesn’t anyone in Aspen own a dictionary? I mean, I can understand the CPAs and government lawyers not understanding the concept of consignment, but perhaps one of the consignment shop owners

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Anyone besides me notice this disconnect here?

        Umm, the city of Aspen might want to hire another “accounting specialist”…or at least one who understands the concept (and Constitutional right) of private property.
Fall from Gracy’s: fate of shop, consignment goods
Thu 08/16/2007
If you had clothing or goods on consignment at Gracy’s in Aspen, you may be interested to know

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Do we have stories to tell…

I promised you that I’d keep an eye out for resale in the news. Here’s the latest roundup, complete with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (but the only Kate Holmes in this article is me, and aren’t you relieved!)
But first, a note: to read all posts for “Used Stuff in the News” just click on [...]

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