Idea I Heard at a Jewelry Show...

Hi, all!

I went to a jewelry show back in October and the consultant had something on her drawing slip that caught my attention!

she had the usual stuff... do you want to join? do you want to host? etc. etc. etc.

the item that caught my attention was the last... would you like to be invited to my half price sample sales?

I asked her exactly what that meant and she said that when she gets her new samples she has a "open house" (or something of the sort) and sells the previous (discontinued) samples at half price. I don't know about you, but I have SOOOOOO much stuff... that my husband says he's going to have to add to the house just to store my PC stuff!!! LOL

Do you think this would be within the PC rules???

My aunt does that. Only she sells all her stock at 50% off. They can purchase their jewelry at 50% off so even if someone buys one of her favorite pieces, she can buy a new one so that it's new to show.

I don't know if it would be in the rules, but man! That is a GREAT idea!!

I was thinking of sending an email out to all of my past hostess's and special customers offering a sale on all of the over-load of products that I have. But I am not sure.

I do need to post something on here though, I have WAY TOO much!!

I have a Partylite friend & twice a year she holds something similar. She sells all her old stuff @ 50-70% off & If you buy anything from the catalog, she gives you 20% off. She always has a big crowd....

I think it would be a little different for us since we USE our products and it shows! If you wore a piece of jewelry everyday for 6 months you wouldn't be able to tell, but if you used a kitchen product everyday for 6 months or how ever long it was in the catalog it would probably show some wear. But for 50% off I think someone would bite at that. I wouldn't, but I know there are less picky people out there!! If it works, work it girl!

My director sells her stuff every season when she has her new products open house. She has re-bought kit stuff by doing that. People flock to the sale, and start swarming and grabbing stuff as soon as she opens the door to let them in.

pampered.chris said:

I don't know if it would be in the rules, but man! That is a GREAT idea!!

I was thinking of sending an email out to all of my past hostess's and special customers offering a sale on all of the over-load of products that I have. But I am not sure.

I do need to post something on here though, I have WAY TOO much!!

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I have WAY TOO MUCH too!!! That's why it caught my attention, I guess!!!

Someone else explained that once you own it, you can do what you like. HO will get anxious if anyone expects to activate a warranty/guarantee, so you would have to offer all items "as is". My director does this. My friend, a PartyLite top consultant, has an open house each year which is bursting at the seams...she does several items at a sealed bid - people jot down an amount they'd pay for an item, and she calls the next day whomever won it with the highest bid. She gave the ruby hurricane vase to someone for $30 -- I think it was like 60 or 70 in their catalog.

(Vaguely related...I was toying with the idea of selling our dripless pour spouts to a wine store - they wanted a significant 40% or 50% cost reduction which HO would not offer me, even at something like 100 units... but they (HO) made clear to me that once they were sold to a "reseller", that any PC guarantee was void.)

You can certainly offer your "gently used" PC merchandise AS IS for a significantly reduced cost. Past hosts would love things at gigantic savings. Just stress the AS IS no guarantee, and pass them along.