Thank you! All of us working Consignment are happy to hear that. We go through months of weekends of volunteer committee meetings before the show to plan operations and discover the best way of presenting the space assigned to us for Consignment each year. Each year, we really do want to segment the space by category, and each year, we find it difficult to do so due to, as you said, being too much to coordinate. It would help if we knew how much of what category we will be expecting. Consignment vendors, as we refer to those who sell stuff via consignment, enter their own goods at their own time into the NexoPOS consignment system we provide. We know that people can easily decide last-minute before leaving for the show to grab more of their own stuff to sell, so we don't even think of setting an entry deadline for goods until the day of the event. Therefore, we will never have a true idea of what percentage of what categories to separate until the very last minute. What we do try to anticipate is how much stuff will actually arrive. This year, we concentrated on table layout, shelving availability (for vertical spacing), checkout routing, checkout availability (four fully working registers), and general movement and foot traffic, in order to provide the most table surface and shelving space. We believe we did better than last year on all of these aspects, even having to account for the use of the Consignment room as a thoroughfare between exhibit sections... and we STILL risked not having enough room for what was arriving. We do let the Consignment vendors place their own stuff when they arrive, so they at least have a general idea where that stuff may be when they pick up any unsold goods on Sunday. But we made everything fit somewhere, and most everything was easily accessible due to some creative rearranging of the goods by our staff to make room for more. From what we were able to determine, not much stuff had to be picked up after the event. A large part of the entire inventory was sold. The tables and shelves were mostly picked to the bone by COB Sunday at 2PM compared to the way things looked Saturday morning. We beat sales totals by about 50% over last year's sales. That made vendors happy, customers happy, and provided decent fundraising for VCF. On behalf of the VCF Consignment crew, we want to thank everyone who made use of the Consignment room this year. It was a madhouse, but for all the good reasons. We look forward to next year already, but if it gets even bigger than it was this year, we might rename the annual event to "VCF East Consignment (and vintage computer show)." :) Jeff Salzman On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 2:55 PM RETRO Innovations via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 4/21/2026 11:04 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It seems like the consignment program was a success. It may have been a little cumbersome for some, but I had no problems listing my two items.
I was a fan of the consignment system as well. Hopefully, if there were issues, they are addressable, as I thought the format and location was really nice. Much better than the Room A setup from long ago, and the shed out back more recently.
And, there were some nice items for offer.
I might suggest a "PCs there, Apple stuff here, CBM stuff over yonder" to potentially help with traffic (I saw some folks bouncing from one area to another to compare the 2 Panasonic Senior Partners, for example,. and I did the same for the TIs available), but that may be too much to coordinate or detrimental to the spirit of the consignment.