Same Tune, Different Words - *sigh*

The original idea for our Swarovski Blow-out Sale was using transparency sheets with the products listed and rub-off markers for customers to make their selections. Great idea. I purchased more transparency sheets because we didn't have enough cobbled together from other things in our past history, and set down to copying the sheets onto them yesterday. *sigh* 

This is what I was supposed to have purchased at 
my local office supply co on Saturday night. 
Unfortunately, the one I purchased was slightly 
different than this, and doesn't work with ink 
jet printers. So ... back to the office supply store 
tonight on my way home and I'll see if they 
even have the style I wanted. I suspect just using 
paper with the transparency taped on top might 
work just as well, so I might do that version 
instead. 

After several failed attempts, I finally realized that although the idea would be great if I had a laser printer, it wouldn't work on my ink jet printer. So, I wasted almost $40 on a product I can't use, and since it's opened and a few pages were used, I can't return it either. *sigh* 

So, I'm back to paper, which I'm actually just fine with. I can return the rub-off markers, but if I use the transparency sheets as a cover sheet, I can use the markers, the transparency sheets, and less paper and ink. I suspect that will be the direction to go. Not exactly the way I had intended, but perfectly useable. We'll see - the sale starts tomorrow and the first day is always the busiest. 

We have a small store, even twenty people is a big crowd for 
us. Crystals are a real draw, and a huge product type for us. 
We want to reduce what we've got, so we're offering it to 
our customers at a sale price we've never offered before. 

The sale itself starts tomorrow, so I have a day to stress out, but also to make sure that everything is as orderly as we can make it. It has the potential of being a zoo, although the sale extends through Saturday, and we're certainly not going to sell out of all Swarovski in a day. I do expect that the first day will be crazy, though. It usually works that way. But ... we have a LOT of product to sell, and if people are flexible about color and/or style, they'll get a serious bargain. It's a BOGO sale on crystals, something we've never offered before and probably will never offer again. 

It might be a total zoo, but I'm hoping that 
those customers who are NOT interested in 
crystals, won't be intimidated by the possible 
crowds. First day will be the worst - it's always 
that way - but I expect the entire week to be 
quite busy - thus, no days off this week. 

Anyway, I'll be working all week this week - no Wednesday or Friday off at all. My posts might be short, but I'll still be here every day. And, if everything goes well, we'll have some super record sales numbers by the end of Saturday's final sale. Then we can collapse - LOL. Have an excellent Monday, I have a large to-do list so I'm getting to it. Slava Ukraini.