Finally done

Today the last bunch of stuff left the mall in Hannibal and now all we need to get is the show cases moved. They are being moved in by someone else on this Wednesday. So Wednesday thru Friday will be getting the stuff on the shelves. We will go through some of the stuff and sent it to the auction.

I did have an unusual thing happen. Up on the upper shelf of on case there was a grape Westmorland panel vase. I took it down and placed it in one tub and our came a liquid. Someone had peed or urniated in it. So now I have half a tub of pottery that needs to be cleaned. So tommorow I will hand wash the stuff. Some people are just unreal.

As we were looking through the other stuff we realized someone took the lid to a Bobwhite Red Wing cookie jar. Also there was another california pottery cookie jar lid missing. Jane and I decided that this is the last mall move. If something goes wrong with this we will leave the malls. Moving all that inventory is too much work.

Years ago the mall booth always did a great business. Now we are tickled if we make more than 4 times our rent.

Dealers are now offering up to 20% off at the new mall. This really goes against our ideas. If you give the customer 20% the mall gets 5% commision, and my rent is $175.00 a month you have to sell a lot of stuff to make it worth your while. I don't think it is so much online selling that has hurt the business that much. We will see what happens in the new place we told each other that we would give the new booth one year.

Andy