By Adam Gopnik By Lauren Collins By Michael Schulman Authenticity might be one of the most important things for sale at the RealReal, a luxury-consignment Web site that recently opened its first New York store.
Great finds can be snatched up in local brick-and-mortar consignment shops or online sites like Threadflip, ThredUp, and even eBay, which recently purchased online consignment shop Twice.
Leni Grossman Bridget Burke enjoyed the sign she spotted recently at a consignment shop on East 49th Street.
Gooding & Company of Santa Monica, Calif., recently announced the consignment of a group of 18 Porsches, consisting primarily of racecars, from the Drendel family collection.
Indeed, invoking the word can be good for one's image and business, said Karuna Tillmon James, 30, who has a background in fine-art photography and recently opened a consignment shop selling designer clothing in Brentwood, Calif.
and manager of the consignment store Second Time Around in SoHo, where I met her when I recently tried to consign my first designer purchase ever, a Betsey Johnson peplum blazer from the '90s (it didn't sell).
Students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Jodhpur recently received the first consignment of Aakash tablets, which are less engaging than OLPC's machines, but considerably less expensive.
In the Republic Broadcasting Network interview in January, Mr Dowson said he himself had recently taken "a huge consignment of bullet-proof vests and tactical equipment" there.
Connect has slowly shifted its business from magazine and newspaper distribution to also include education supplies, books and more recently irregular dimension and weight freight and parcel consignments.
Recently I went to a consignment shop and found a designer red dress on sale for a ridiculously low price.
