[Jewelry making - Article 01059] - Re: [Orchid] Wholesaling one-offs

[Silververkstan d&b]

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    Until now I've managed to keep out of this thread altough some among
    the multitude of thoughts have made me wonder. Now I'm baffled! 

>     For several reasons he always steered customers away from
>     consignment frames and rarely sold any. His reason were these - the
>     demographic of the area - a lot of pensioners who didn't care about
>     the latest fashion trends but did have to spend their money
>     carefully - he could give them an excellent price on his discounted
>     end-of-line frames. He could also make a very tidy profit on these
>     items even giving the customer a price about half that of his
>     competitors. The other reason was that he needed to keep track of
>     consignment stock - if it wasn't moving then it wasn't hard to
>     track. (He didn't keep track of his own stock). 

    Why even consider having all these consingment frames? To keep or
    not to keep track of? Must be a hassle when you're not tracking own
    stock. 

>     I have never considered selling jewellery on consignment because I
>     saw how the process worked in that shop - the reps worked very
>     hard - rotated their stock regularly and tried to maintain a good
>     relationship with the optometrist but they still could not sell
>     any reasonable amount of stock in that store. Also, their stock was
>     put into the furtherest darkest corner of the shop, all together,
>     so that a customer could be shepherded away from all consignment
>     stock in one 

    And then, why did all these sales reps accept being put away in the
    least favorable corner and still rotate a stock that seemingly
    hardly moved. Did they never ponder their bad luck/business? The reps
    should have had some leveredge or they had been screwed from the
    start. Unless charity is your game you either sell or pull out, you
    decide, not the storeowner unless there's an agreement saying
    otherwise. 

>     I am easily intimidated and often screwed over so I really feel
>     that the consignment path would be too much of an ordeal for me... 

>     - I think if I wasn't so spineless and had some idea of my rights
>     if I were to consign I would give it a go. 

    Why not go ahead and find out what your rights are? And obligations.
    It's not difficult and as long as all is on paper, terms, price,
    deliverys. After all, where would the stores be without good stuff
    in the displays? All stocked with same production jewelry from the
    Far East making jewelry shopping the most boring thing next to buying
    canned food. 

    Many people are very skillful at their trade yet most of them
    remains employees until retirement. It is not easy being your own
    boss. Many of us on the Orchid list can't hand over the boring chores
    to someone else, there's just your other hand picking it up. Me, the
    CEO, actually has to clean the washroom before a customer
    appointment, do the tedious, but not difficult, bookkeeping on top of
    doing my real work - making my customer's vision become a piece of
    jewelry. Every once in a while I'm called upon to be a photographer
    and make a poster or booklet that has to make the jewelry justice,
    thank god for my aesthetic mind. 

    But since you're running your own business you should be qualified
    to do all these "chores" because that is part of doing business. If
    you're not, you may easily be taken advantage of by someone with an
    unscrupulous nature; they pop up in every trade! 

michaela, off to sweep the floors


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