Originally Posted by
CitizenBBN
Darrell, I like that idea. My brain is spinning trying to think how to make that a marketing pitch for buyers.
A lot of my regular "auction folk" do actually do that now. We sell a number of nice pieces where we deliver and they send the other one back for us to sell. They're out of room, but they upgraded.
I'm also working on how to market "green" to these kids by having them buy something used instead of new for everything. One problem is reaching them, the other is they want clean lines, very Danish modern and post industrial.
They want Danish designers, Marcel Breuer, Eames Brothers, Mies. The problem is their parents are selling Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Victorian, Eastlake and Empire. They want clean colors, gray, white, black, chrome, and the furniture is in mahogany, walnut, oak, rosewood, cherry. They often call it "brown", which, to borrow a baseball analogy for my good twin's favorite sport, is like calling Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio or Hank Aaron "a baseball guy". lol
But I'm loving the "upgrade" idea, b/c older buyers actually know mahogany from oak, and still appreciate it. but most are downsizing and moving to Florida.
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