Fiorino Glass Art
12-14-2009, 09:03 PM
Well, just like any other week or two weeks, I went out today to make some headshop trips. I had gotten in contact with a new shop owner, that actually owns three shops. After try to get a hold of him numerous times, I finally got him to give me the go to come up and have him check out my stuff. I also told him that I was coming from Madison, which is 45 minutes away from his shop. He said "yeah yeah! come on up!". So I get there, and after waiting 10 minutes for him to come in the back, he just glanced at my pieces, and said that he just got a bunch in and told me to come back when I have a bunch more....I had a whole rifle case filled, like 30-35 pieces.
I then decided to go to the next shop down, tye dye sky. I've sold to them on and off, just whenever they have the cash at the store. The lady really doesn't look at my pieces at all, just picks out the ones she likes and takes em in the back. The one shop that always buys off me, papa smokes, looks for cracks but other than that, not to critical. I guess now, the lady can't buy the glass anymore. Only her old man, the owner, can. She also said he just bought a bunch of pieces, more than likely chinese, and told me to come back up in about 3 weeks.
Still, no money made! Next up, I remember my buddy telling me about this cigarette outlet that sold glass. Turns out, they gotta pretty decent selection. This owner was fucking ridiculous!! Talk about a critic! He looked at my case of glass.."you need brighter colors!"(in an middle eastern accent). So pretty much it was me explaining to him, this is my first year blowing, these a my prodo pieces, yada yada yada..So he continued to tell me what sells and what doesn't, and he pretty much just had iso bowls, bubs, but nothin crazy, all had bad yellow fume, and not too thick. I explained to him the essence of hand crafted pieces, and the exploitation of that would sell the pieces even better, people like that stuff. So, after some more discussion about him being ignorant in glass, and the concepts of retail and wholesale(which I already know), I was getting ready to close the case..then he said.."no no, i want to help you, you come up here once a week, i promise i buy off you every time you come up here, but I want brighter colors!!". That was a fucking surprise!! So i'll work on the brighter colors!!! Which I already had, if you look on my thread, it's all pretty much surface work, mostly crayon colors, and I have some iso. But that's what I was explaining to him, they get more vibrant with the magnification. But surface colors still look bright too!
The whole day just was very frustrating:bangHead: I knew this coming into it, so thanks to all who have said not to quit when the times are rough. My new plan:better prodo for the cig shop, nicer more elaborate work for the first shop, like I said, he owns three stores, gots sum cash. And I may scratch tye dye sky. I'll give em one last chance. But I had a new opportunity to come my way to start up my own shop..hehe....so we'll see here, but I def keep on it!!!
I then decided to go to the next shop down, tye dye sky. I've sold to them on and off, just whenever they have the cash at the store. The lady really doesn't look at my pieces at all, just picks out the ones she likes and takes em in the back. The one shop that always buys off me, papa smokes, looks for cracks but other than that, not to critical. I guess now, the lady can't buy the glass anymore. Only her old man, the owner, can. She also said he just bought a bunch of pieces, more than likely chinese, and told me to come back up in about 3 weeks.
Still, no money made! Next up, I remember my buddy telling me about this cigarette outlet that sold glass. Turns out, they gotta pretty decent selection. This owner was fucking ridiculous!! Talk about a critic! He looked at my case of glass.."you need brighter colors!"(in an middle eastern accent). So pretty much it was me explaining to him, this is my first year blowing, these a my prodo pieces, yada yada yada..So he continued to tell me what sells and what doesn't, and he pretty much just had iso bowls, bubs, but nothin crazy, all had bad yellow fume, and not too thick. I explained to him the essence of hand crafted pieces, and the exploitation of that would sell the pieces even better, people like that stuff. So, after some more discussion about him being ignorant in glass, and the concepts of retail and wholesale(which I already know), I was getting ready to close the case..then he said.."no no, i want to help you, you come up here once a week, i promise i buy off you every time you come up here, but I want brighter colors!!". That was a fucking surprise!! So i'll work on the brighter colors!!! Which I already had, if you look on my thread, it's all pretty much surface work, mostly crayon colors, and I have some iso. But that's what I was explaining to him, they get more vibrant with the magnification. But surface colors still look bright too!
The whole day just was very frustrating:bangHead: I knew this coming into it, so thanks to all who have said not to quit when the times are rough. My new plan:better prodo for the cig shop, nicer more elaborate work for the first shop, like I said, he owns three stores, gots sum cash. And I may scratch tye dye sky. I'll give em one last chance. But I had a new opportunity to come my way to start up my own shop..hehe....so we'll see here, but I def keep on it!!!