netjim wrote:uh, how about
someone will
want the garbage rug?
That's why Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors.
heh, I have a "line" I use almost every day when showing rugs. Almost always, someone will go "eewww" at one of them (I do show a variety of styles) - they hate the color, design, whatever.
I have a saying, "Every rug has its place .... just maybe not my place."
More cute. And OK, positive thinking, point taken, yadda yadda. But I have some sense of wut U know and yr eye....and I seriously doubt yo wouldl ever have a rug this ugly to SHOW, Ok?
I can attest, SOMEONE...living in my building who lives on 11 OR 12.. liked it enuff at some point in time, to have bought it...prolley paid serious money even, now that I have learned the specifics from Pro, I was stunned........cause when they THREW IT OUT, Get that part, OK?--THREW IT OUT...I found it neatly folded and rolled for the porter to pick up on the service stairwell landing.
Even someone with deep pockets and the essence of profligacy would have to SERIOUSLY despise something worth hundreds of dollars to THROW IT OUT, ARE WE GETTING THIS? (omg, who could Blame them?)
And while I do get yr point re how subjectve taste is....there is yr basic Eeeeewwwwww!....and there is yr Eeeeeeeeeew BLECH!!!!
To logically extend the Baskin Robbins analogy....U know someone who would buy the "Depressed and defeated dark grape with Carmel florid sprays & Praline" cone? I happen to know they, Baskin Robbins, launched this, the flavor of this rug ,once...and in under a week, they lost 72% of their client base, OK? There were also 3 law suits!!!
Seriously, I am nourished by everyone's positiveness. I hope, SOON.
Truth is....I can't fake well. I am so horrified by this rug....tho feel very blessed to have found it just when Rug God put it there so at least for 6 years, after having to sell MY ANTIQUE SAROUK... I din have to be reminded by seeing huge bare oak floor.
But I also get people who need to sell something should to be perky and positive about that ITEM. And, should this at some point lead so a human actually coming to see it....I am not sure if I could avoid crying and apologizing.
In those last....I am not kidding.
Tell me....how do YOU deal with showing a rug you secretly abhor? Is about smiling and working to amalgamate positive things about the thing? Remember....YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL AND THAT BEARS WEIGHT inherently and in commerce CONTEXT!!! I thought about it and, re a Craigslist listing all I can come up with is
" 9 X 12 Sarouk found in the garbage with dk Navy field, hand knotted with 144 KPSI, COUPLA RAISINS squashed into and inexorably entwined with the fringes, pls do not throw up in my apartment, but I RELATE"... is all I can come up with. At least it's HONEST.
Can we get now I need to find a way of perking up? Of FEIGNING??? Some attitude transplant? Drink some SNAKE OIL? Some Crystal meth perhaps?
Out of the thousands of rugs I have obsessively scrolled thru during my interminable (felt like) Rug Hunt, I can tell you, while many generated wincing and audible shrieks......not once did I come upon anything like this thing, OK?
Ok just got....I could also say "unusual."
Truly and seriously.....this works back to an inability to feign ....while I think bears huge upside and is, in many ways a blessing.....also, in this world, sometimes has a downside.
Example...Pro, who is grounded and caN be pragmatic.....warned me...too late, of course....when he got I was in luv with the MA Indo sarouk and would try to get it....I should Curb my Enthusiasm. I had already sent unabashed hysteria joy mail to the Gallery. See this? I can not fake a dearth of interest iN anything which brings me delight ....NOR nausea at anything which generates the opposite.
But knowing now, via Pro, it is not total, ACTUAL garbage....I could not live with myself if I can't find the corage to try. Why can't I just tell the truth and if someone is lame enuff to like it, I could live with myself more on that basis.