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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 9490159, member: 16283&quot;]Welcome Joseph-You&#039;re among family here,and this is great bunch to pose this question to.</p><p>Here&#039;s a few hopefully humbly given suggestions-</p><p>1. Have folks at the front counter who really enjoy people &amp; are naturals at customer service.You don&#039;t want folks standing there while Erma&#039;s spending 15 minutes telling Mildred about her gall bladder surgery.</p><p>2.Encourage your dealers to bring in new items every week-keep inventory fresh !</p><p>3.Don&#039;t have dealers falling in love with every item they sell-it&#039;s got to be priced to move.If it doesn&#039;t move in say 30 days,cut the friggin&#039; price to guarantee it does.</p><p>4.Try to have each dealer stock a case of $1 to $5 items,stuff that&#039;ll make customers go-&#039;Well,I really don&#039;t need this-but for 2 bucks !?&#039;</p><p>5.Have a few really fine &amp; rare things in prominent places around the store-mind blowing &#039;eye candy&#039;. Even a few &#039;Not For Sale Items&#039; that are just there to spice up the joint,<i>any more than just a few will simply infuriate clients. </i></p><p>6.I&#039;ll pick just about anywhere-but some folks don&#039;t want to go digging thru dust-bunnies &amp; spider nests.Those were just the kind of joints i grew up in.</p><p>7.Location (re Komo)-More dealers in one area simply attracts more Antiquers.It means more competition-but more foot traffic for you ! It doesn&#039;t have to be a swanky adress-just a safe comfy one.Of course there are some great finds to be had in joints run by pawnbrokers &amp; fences,but Ma &amp; Pa Kettle aren&#039;t going to go crawling thru all the fentanyl freaks &amp; tweakers.Plus,nobody needs to have their car windows smashed-too high a price for a Soaky Toy.</p><p>8.Do allow dealers to offer a 10-20% off discount in certain circumstances.This used to be common in shops 5-10 years ago,not as much anymore (?).</p><p>9.***Joke but true ! This last one&#039;s quite SILLY,Bad Business and isn&#039;t replicable. Honestly in the last 50 years-<i>The ONE THING that will keep me coming back to a shop for years is paying $15 for a $1500 Item</i>.I&#039;m like a homing pigeon Zombie searching for his brains when it happens.20 years later &amp; never found another deal-but i just can&#039;t stop-absurd but honest !</p><p>BEST OF LUCK JOSEPH !</p><p>PS-There&#039;s a million other good tips our members can share with you,they&#039;ve walked the road Brother.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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