Soooo, what's the funniest misinterpretation of a poster you've gotten this run? Today, I had a girl think that our "Shawshank Redemption" poster was a classic baseball print. In the past, I've framed the Gone with the Wind kissing poster for a girl who thought it was a famous historical print. Also, is it just me? Am I old now? or are there waaaay more kids who don't know what "Animal House" is and just want the "poster of the guy drinking whiskey?"
Our days off were fun. We somehow ended up in some tourist town where it is perfectly normal for folks to just walk around downtown with open cans of beer. We got to be beach bums and eat tacos.
As far as "new projections" go, we noticed that for the first day of every sale we had.. our projections were the same as what the previous ones had been for the rest of the week. Was the "mistaken algorithm" just them only looking at first day sales and then saying that's how much you're suppose to do every day? Any other theories?
Anyone had mostly outdoor sales? We've been fairly lucky- with very few. It's difficult to store all those stock boxes.
Speaking of which, what are folks doing? Are yall loading your trucks in a somewhat efficient way? Our truck is all kinds of messed up and it's taking us forever to load/unload. How are you managing outdoor sales or sales with small spaces?
pshaw, goodnight, devils on the loose.
after selling out of "keep calm and carry on" in all of its renditions at one school, I asked some kid who was particularly excited about it coming back in what the point of it was.
ReplyDelete"it's uh, you know, like a HIPSTER thing, like, you know, uh, HIPSTER-stuff. I think it's like, a british, london thing too."
yea, huh? oh my god.
The favorite thing I heard so far was two people talking about an Edward Scissor Hands poster; "I kind of, like, feel bad for edward scissor hands cuz, like, nobody really liked him..." "Yeah but he was just, like, a regular guy, they just judged him." Yes.....thats... EXACTLY WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT. I'm glad they're capable of understanding the depth of edward scissor hands.
ReplyDeleteWhats everyones favorite poster? My favorite poster is the "You really think god can't use you?" poster because it assures us that god us a place for all the fuckups too, even ugly people.
We had an outdoor sale destroy our books. Trying to get BTW to send new ones across the country.
ReplyDeleteIts funny you mention "guy drinking whiskey" just had a girl MINUTES ago ask for that one exactly like that. I said "Belushi"? and shes sort of stared at me.
i think the projections are based per school. It's good to know some tems are making projections. i think they used alcohol-rhythms to make these projections.
ReplyDeleteat one out door sale with a small space we had to lean our inventory on either side of benches with the T boxes on the end. when clearing this with the sponsor they were concerned that the kids wouldn't have any where to sit. also they wanted us to bring our own source of power?!?
ReplyDeletealso any one else having students just start rifling through your inventory? one time when we were closing and had told everyone so, a group of girls started to pull a bunch of posters out of the M box. when we told them to stop and that the register was shut down they wanted to hold onto the posters until we opened the next day.
we have been fortunate enough to always have a wall next to our sale except the time mentioned above. any one set up in the middle of a field? what did you do with inventory then? I have been thinking about this and dream of setting up in the back of the truck.
fuck I am late to my last sale. take the money!