Quote from: NocturnalLibrary on April 14, 2026, 08:38:11 PMGreat advice, I'm indeed thinking of perhaps making the mail order focused more on Noise from various countries as well as offering newer, lesser known artist's releases. Different but good material.Keep some selection from known artists and respected labels along with the lesser known ones. Most sales from the latter stock won't be from people buying bunch of obscure releases at random (that happens occasionally though, and if the person is happy with his purchases, you'll have a steady customer, since he trusts you to come across new and interesting stuff in the future as well), but an item or two purchased along with something by Government Alpha, Con-Dom, Hospital Productions, etc. You'll want your selection to be different enough to be noticed, not so different that it gets you ignored.
Quote from: NocturnalLibrary on April 14, 2026, 04:11:46 PMBased on positive experiences from people who purchased releases from my personal collection I'd like to take it a step further and start my own mail order to sell releases from various labels and spread these to others in this way, which I find very satisfying to do.
I'd like to know what the do's and don't of setting up a mail order are and how to best handle setting it up and getting in touch with labels to sell selected releases . I'd like to offer a varied mixture of Noise and more experimental sounds and I'll be happy to write some own texts for releases using my experience with writing about Noise for a personal touch.
Happy to hear your advice.
Quote from: Theodore on April 15, 2026, 04:07:22 PMQuote from: Goat93 on April 15, 2026, 02:00:42 PMJust some Advices:
- You will have Contact with Idiots and Bugglers.
- Always send Insured, never without. Even if its cheaper and even if its normaly arrives, there are a lot of Pople who skrew you up and have absolute no problem to let the World know.
I agree, that's ideal, BUT mandatory tracking / insurance in every small order is too much for a potential buyer to afford. And normal shipping cost is already expensive -almost- everywhere. You will have less orders just because of that, if you apply it, certainly.
Don't know how big and frequently updated you intend to do it. If it has frequently new stuff incoming it will become big, eventually. A nice idea, IF you have space, is to use something like the 'Build an order' option S&W has. People buy, you keep them, they buy more, you keep them till there is enough to make a good package, and that could be sent registered indeed.
Quote from: Goat93 on April 15, 2026, 02:00:42 PMJust some Advices:
- You will have Contact with Idiots and Bugglers.
- Always send Insured, never without. Even if its cheaper and even if its normaly arrives, there are a lot of Pople who skrew you up and have absolute no problem to let the World know.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on April 12, 2026, 09:38:18 AMHmmm.. When mr. Con-Dom turned 50, already long time ago, I was there at the "private" gig, but that was in the UK. Even played short set with Sickness gear, since I wasn't supposed to play, but Grey Wolves got too drunk to play, hah. Now latest 50 years birthday party was mr. Moozzhead last autumn, who paid Government Alpha to play in his party, plus Treriksröset and many others. Not bad. I guess soon a lot of guys turning 50, where are the upcoming noise parties/meetings?!
Quote from: impulse manslaughter on April 15, 2026, 01:46:51 PMIt'll be nice to have a good mailorder in The Netherlands!
