Post #652640 by pjc5150 on Wed, Sep 19, 2012 8:06 AM

well, I'm kinda with you on "consigning".

For one thing I don't like making something and then giving someone else half of my money. And yeah, I feel the same way about stuff being stolen. Or what if they just decide they like it and just take it home themselves and tell me is was ripped off?

My favorite is restaurant owners. They always want you to put tikis in their restaurants on a consignment basis. And they're big pitch is "you'll get so much exposure", which is really just a load of bullshit. People don't go to restaurants to buy home decor. And people who see neat stuff at restaurants don't just assume things are for sale. So I always say to them "so basically you want me to decorate your restaurant for free, and on the off chance that something actually sells, you want half the money.....yeah, that's not what I do." Then I tell them I've been featured on several news broadcasts and newspapers and I'm all stocked up on 'exposure'....I need ACTUAL MONEY...

In general I would be wary of anyone selling EXPOSURE. In the tiki world "exposure" means "we want some free stuff".

[ Edited by: pjc5150 2012-09-19 08:06 ]