Fastest sale ever

[watervole]

 In the bookshop, we have occasionally sold books before they got onto the shelves -either they were on the desk waiting to be priced, or in the back room and brought down by request, but Tuesday was the first time I've ever sold something before it got into the shop...

We have a few pictures for sale, they're mostly there to make the shop look attractive, but we sell one every now and then.

We sold a picture of some foxes on Tuesday morning, so I went over to the other Weldmar charity shop in Dorchester to pick out a few possible replacement pictures from the donations there.  One of the pictures was a rather amusing cartoon of dogs queueing to use a lamp post.  I tucked it under my arm and was about half way back, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a women in a cafe turning her head to see it (I was carrying it upsidedown).  I turned it the right way up and held it to the window so she could see it better and said she could have it for £6.  A minute were were having a quick conversation inside the cafe to establish that the picture was being sold for the Weldmar Hospice, that she could pay by credit card and the bookshop was only just down the road.

Four minutes later, she was the happy new owner of the picture!

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!! This is wonderful, congratulations! You won´t miss any chance to contact people, this is a rare gift.
BTW, if I had seen such a picture, I would have bought it too:-) . I have several funny cat pictures.

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

That's delightful!

[rockwell-666.livejournal.com]

My grandmother used to buy my father an annual subscription to National Geographic Magazine, but after he died and we moved house my mother decided they were taking up space and not being read, so we'd get rid of them.

Having tried various options (nobody wanted them) I offered them to a local charity shop not far from where we lived and they said they'd take them.

So we loaded them into the car, got to the shop and I started to unload them. I was about half way through when a guy in the shop said to the assistant "are you selling those?" and when she said "yes, you can have them for £10", he said "fine, I'll take them."

I asked where he lived and found he was only a couple of streets away, so I said, "give me a hand to get them back in the car" and we dropped them off at his place!

We got rid of them, the charity shop got a tenner and he got a damn good deal :-)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Excellent story.

There are very few magazines with resale value, but National Geographic is on that borderline as it's easier to place on the shelf.

We've sold old model engineering magazines and I have some from just after WW1 that I expect to sell, but most magazines are waste paper.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

My friend has 4 of those pictures in miniature hanging in her loo! They have captions in French if I remember correctly.