Post #230174 by Bay Park Buzzy on Tue, May 2, 2006 10:44 PM

Dear The Sperm Whale(I feel uncomfortable calling you spermy before we are formally introduced)
I was going to post about this later this week but since you brought it up I'll explain it now in the narrative form: A couple of months ago my girlfriend asked me what I was going to do with my growing tiki collection. I told her I didn't know because I had not really thought that through yet; I just enjoy the process of creating them. She said that I could sell them easily and that people would like them very much. She also told me about many ways in which I could market and sell my stuff. I told her it would be neat to sell my stuff and make some money, but I was too busy making stuff to stop and start marketing them. I' m definitely more into manufacturing than marketing and selling. And if I took time to try and sell them, would I have time left to manufacture what I would need to sell later on, or would the process end with both the manufacturing and marketing causing each other to fail simultaneously? I thought about this and told her that hopefully someday I would meet someone who wanted to open a store and not know what he/she wanted to sell. In this get rich quick scenario, this person would happen by my house and see all my tikis lying around and say to me, "Hey, I wanted to open a store but I did not know what I wanted to sell, but now that I see all your tikis here, I want to open a tiki store. I'll take all of them right now. Is there an ATM near here?" Then I would make tikis and sell them exclusively at my own factory outlet. But since my girlfriend knows that will not happen, she pressed me to sell my stuff. So I made a deal with her. I made her my partner. I asked her to handle the selling of my stuff from now on, and I will handle the making of my stuff. She could charge whatever she wanted for them; just give me a reasonable amount from the resulting transaction. So, to wrap this story up and finally get to the point, about a day later she hooked me up with my first paid commission and told me she was trying to get a booth at Tiki Oasis 6. It was a day or two past the deadline but she managed to get one. She's been handling all of the correspondence associated with it, and yes I will be selling all of my stuff there. Everything I have ever made and posted on this strand will be there. I think the pictures above pretty much shows everything I'm taking. If you want something that I have, I will see you there or I can get you in touch with my sales representative prior to then. I hope you made it through all this and thank you for showing interest.