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Ray Bragg

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I purchased this shop about 3 years ago and it was extremely overstocked with framed pieces . The walls ere covered the floor had pieces piled 6 and 7 deep they were everywhere. You could hardly walk for the framed and unframed stuff everywhere. I have adde a lot of hanging space with portable walls and been running sales(the last one was 50% off the markdown price) and markdowns, given to every charity with an auction or the likes and am still woefully overstocked. These are not out dated units or poorly done things, even though some of them have been aroud 15 or more years! Whayt do you suggest to git rid of some of these? I hate to throw them away I paid way too much for them when I bought the shop!!!!
 
Our local library and community college gladly accept framed artwork, as does the city and county boards of education. Since my first life was teaching, I know for a fact that teachers want and need freebies for their classrooms whether educational or just decorative.

When you do have someone accept your generous donation, be sure to get your local newspaper to take a picture of you presenting it to whomever. There you have free advertising while doing something good for the community.
 
Ray, It sounds like time for a flea market or yard sale. I'm sure you are spending too much time and energy dealing with this inventory.
If the pictures are poorly framed, that is not the image you want to portray to your customers.
 
FramerDave is on target. Get what you can first, and then make some contacts. They definitely should not get in the way of or take too much time from your daily operations.
 
I have found that advertising percentage off is a waste of time and money. If you publish actual prices the customers know how much they are going to be spending when they walk through the door. The BB's have played the percentage off game to death and now everybody thinks it is just a marketing scam.
 
I agree with Jeff's marketing plan completely. The percent off promos are looked at incredulously whereas exact dollar off or exact dollar price is more effective.

You would not believe the number of educated Americans who cannot figure percentages anyway.
 
Jeff Rodier said:
The BB's have played the percentage off game to death and now everybody thinks it is just a marketing scam.
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Would those people be wrong? ;)

It's all a game in big corporate marketing. Much like everything else in America you have to figure out how to play the game or circumvent the game somehow. I feel like honesty and integrity are considered a luxury when stock-holders are involved. That's not true for every big corp. that I have had to work under, but that seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
 
$99 is too high a price point. Consumers can go to Home Goods, Target, or Bed Bath & Beyond and buy framed wall decor for $29.99 to $49.99. Like it or not, that's your price point. Mark everything to $24.99, and anything that hasn't sold by the end of February should be broken down and destroyed. If the glass can be re-used, put it in your glass bin. Take the frames out back, bang them against the asphalt to ding them up, and toss them in the dumpster (that will keep dumpster divers from taking them out and bringing them back in to you as readymades). If they haven't sold after all these years, they aren't going to.

Get rid of the worst-looking stuff first, and then get rid of the stuff that's already on the walls. Put some of the remaining stuff on the walls for a couple of weeks, and then take those down and destroy them, replacing them with whatever is left on the floor. Keep doing this til it's all gone.

If they haven't sold by now, they aren't going to.
 
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