Up to a fifth of a typical consignment to a supermarket is returned, because shopkeepers and suppliers have misunderstood each other.Until recently, this was costly, but not catastrophic.
It is thought that the champagne may belong to a consignment sent to the tsar of Russia by King Louis XVI just before the French revolution.
In a smug conclusion, all three characters end up together in Krisit's tub, a collective consignment to the hell of soapy priorities.
It is punctuated by astonishing live performances that have the character of rites and rituals – the dismemberment of a car in a Los Angeles showroom, its consignment to a hellish, medieval foundry in Detroit, where it is smelted into iron and cast in the earth, the flooding of a dry dock in New York.
She is piloting a project in Uganda, using a consignment model to provide up front inventory for women who then sell the lights to local consumers.
Last week police in Belfast recovered a Russian-made rocket launcher, an RPG7, that was almost certainly part of a consignment brought to NI by the IRA from Libya during the 1980s.
Needless to say, the deal does not proceed smoothly with a safe and prompt delivery of the consignment to a satisfied customer.
Then the couple determines the best way to sell each item, including sales to specialized dealers, on consignment to a regional auction house and through a listing on eBay.
Note that all markets recorded in ScotEID operate as auctioneers holding dedicated sales/collections of pigs for onward consignment to a slaughterhouse, also named "red markets".
But most of all, they say, they are prepared to invest capital and take risks: in buying a consignment of rubbish to sell on to the state authorities who are the ultimate buyers, in buying lorries, and, naturally, in "buying" local police and officials.But for many, these risks are too big to take with hard-earned money.
