Consignment Shopping

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   Mirrajeposted 15 years ago

   Any avid consignment shoppers out there? With today's economy, you'd have to be nuts not to shop consignment and resale stores. There are a lot of nice ones out there that carry designer clothing and accessories for a steal!  I'd love to hear about your favorite consignment shops in the State of Florida.

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      Stacie Lposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Consignment stores are booming in this area of the state where I live!
      I've shopped in consignment stores most of my life;especially when I was a struggling student!
      There are great deals.Many cash strapped people are going to pawn shops first,but they are overwhelmed with merchandise right now.;

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         Nickny79posted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Incidentally, selling on consignment is excellent for merchants.  Often small manufacturers or budding entrepreneurs will make a deal with merchants to have their goods displayed without requiring the merchant pay wholesale.  Whatever sells, merchant and manufacturer split.  Whatever doesn't sell goes back to the manufacturer.  This is how art galleries work as well.  The art galleries very often don't buy the works of art, they just let the artists display it in their space.
         
         My aunt owns a boutique in NYC and she sells a whole line of jewelry on consignment with a local manufacturer.  She, and many other small merchants, really favor this way of doing business.

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            Stacie Lposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            Good point;I actually had my jewelry pieces on consignment in the gift shop of a community art center.
            It was good exposure and the center made some money from commissions

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   Leta Sposted 15 years ago

   "This is how art galleries work as well.  The art galleries very often don't buy the works of art, they just let the artists display it in their space. "
   
   Nny--
   That really really depends on what level of gallery you are talking about.
   
   
   
   But yes, consignments are booming here in the Sedona area of N. Arizona, too...  That's because people are broke and fancy selling off their treasures for $ they can use.  It's OK, but the preponderance of such stores just springing up in the last few month here in the area is kinda depressing.

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      Nickny79posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      note my qualification "very often"

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      Nickny79posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Note that pawn shop style transactions are not the only kind of transactions contemplated by the term "consignment."  Generally, the term denotes a transfer of goods from a "consignor" to a "consignee" without a transfer of legal title to the consignee.    The consignor holds legal title to the goods, the consignee has possession of the goods and a right to transfer title to those goods on the consignor's behalf.  A consignment is a right to transfer title without actually holding title.  People in charge of warehouses, cargo ships (and yes, most art galleries) hold goods on consignment--but they are hardly second-hand stores.  In contrast, a plain vanilla seller of goods typically transfers both legal title and possession to a purchaser.  A bailment relations comtemplates a transfer of posession without either a transfer of title or a right to transfer title.  A bailor/bailee relationship exists, for instance, between you and your dry-cleaner.  A dry-cleaner has possession only for the purpose of cleaning and promptly returning your clothes.  These relationship (buyer/seller, bailor/bailee and consignor/consignee) also have implications with regard to lien priorities, security interests and a lot of other fun stuff that you should be thankful you don't have to worry about.

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         Leta Sposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Ok, Ok...  You got me on the legality language stuff.  My thoughts were actually my own quandary in trying to decipher the galleries here I'd consider legitimate and those which really are not...  And finding this place I'm at now slightly, hopelessly commercial rather than always necessarily artistically sound.  You find yourself in NYC after graduate school and see you didn't take advantage of it in the right way...  And you end up bourgeois! lol
         
          
         
         

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