Weldmar bookshop

[watervole]

 Sales in the Dorchester bookshop are improving.   Last week we took over £900.  (a rare bird book at £100 helped towards that total).

We've definitely improved our sales of greeting cards.  Weldmar do an excellent range of multi-purpose greetings cards at £1 each.  I moved them next to the window, stuck up a sign in the window to say they were all £1 and sales have leapt.   They're very attractive cards and all come in a sealed pack with an envelope.  Massively better value than cards elsewhere.

Richard and I are working round the shop, a display unit at a time and overhauling the display.  Today, I've just taken all the English geography books out of the window (apart from Dorset books) and replaced them with collectable annuals. We've some early Rupert annuals at around £15 each and a Captain Scarlet and a Thunderbirds board game (though sadly with two pieces missing).

I've also got tricks still to apply on the paperbacks.  I've worked out a cheap way to get lots of face-out books.  Take a couple of paperbacks that aren't good enough to sell, wrap paper around them and tape it on, then place them sideways as a block on the shelf to support a nice new face-out paperback.

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[kerravonsen]

I've worked out a cheap way to get lots of face-out books. Take a couple of paperbacks that aren't good enough to sell, wrap paper around them and tape it on, then place them sideways as a block on the shelf to support a nice new face-out paperback.

I'm confused. Why does one need to do this? Can't you just simply put the desired paperback face-out anyway, without anything behind it?

[watervole]

Because they fall over as soon as anyone moves another book on the shelf. (when bookshops do this, they either have a stack of several identical books, or else a small cardboard box behind the book)

[temeres.livejournal.com]

Rare bird book, eh? Was that a book about rare birds or a rare book about birds?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

A rare book of early engravings.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

This is definitely excellent work you and Richard do there, congratulations!
I say that you are an excellent manager!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's a great total!

I admit, I have spent over $150 on a book a couple of times...

[rockwell-666.livejournal.com]

Which Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds games are they?

There's a couple of people offering copies for parts on Board Game Geek which might fill your set and allow you to sell them to collectors for more than you might get in the shop.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Good thought. Sadly, ours is the 1966 version and I can't see anyone offering parts for that. (I hadn't thought of looking for parts on Geek)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Captain Scarlet was an annual - we've already sold him.