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2000 and Counting…

Monday, November 5th, 2007

In June I mentioned we had placed a post on Craig’s List that we were giving away our designer scrap paint (perfect high quality paint that was accidentally mis-tinted). To date these astute bargain hunters have picked up over 2,000 gallons.

That’s a lot of paint!

It’s a win-win for everyone. We aren’t sitting on product we cannot sell in our stores and somebody gets a $40-50 product for FREE. Instead of ending up in some landfill contributing to waste, I am so happy to think of this ending up in someones home adding beauty.

How cool is that?

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One of My Favorite Four-Letter F Words…

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

FREE.

What did you think I was going to say?

Last week we posted FREE Paint on Craig’s List. Whaddya know? It works! Like any paint store, we occasionally have mis-tints that we can’t sell and after being in business for as many years as we have, those little mistakes can add up to quite a pile of perfectly good designer paint.

We donate lots of our scrap paint to worthy organizations, but since these scraps comes in one and two gallons units, it’s not always easy to give away.

Enter Craig’s List. In this last week, we have seen cars pull up, comb over the free pile in the front of the store, grab a bucket or two and zoom off. We’ve probably gotten rid of about 140 gallons so far. Not bad, considering that we have to pay quite a bit to get rid of unusable gallonage or pay rent to store it on our shelves.

I guess FREE is a word that everyone understands!

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