Sentence examples for on consignment with from inspiring English sources

Jack placed dresses and coats on consignment with a variety of dealers, and since I wear only vintage (except underwear and shoes), I found myself buying several more Precious dresses, without realizing it, until I asked (as I often do) who had owned them previously.

To supplement his income, he opened a grocery store and a commission business (selling others' goods on consignment) with his brother.

The idea isn't new or unique to smaller stores — Barnes & Noble sells books on consignment — but with the rise of the self-publishing industry, the demand is greater than ever.

(Her financial arrangements, however, are traditional: she takes art on consignment and splits the fees with the artists).

Rennert buys these titles, which are often self-published, on consignment, meaning he splits the proceeds with authors and then returns the unsold copies.

Her art is being offered on consignment, and the contract she signed with Mr. Moors does not prevent her from selling her artwork anywhere else, including her own Web site.

At least one, he said, sells original prints on consignment from dealers.

In 1989 William Sokolin, a New York wine merchant, had a bottle of Chateau Margaux 1787, also with Jefferson's initials, on consignment from its English owner.

When Zwirner opened his gallery, on Greene Street, Barbara Gladstone, an established dealer, trusted him with a Richter painting to sell on consignment.

Only a few copies had been bought by some workshop students who had managed to come up with the price; efforts to place them on consignment in bookstores had been unsuccessful.

Instead, it provided buyers and sellers alike with a platform to sell their shoes on consignment.