consignment
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When Ed’s health began to fade in 2023, his son, Bryan, arranged with a Keizer, Ore., store called Bricks & Minifigs—the local franchise of a nationwide chain of Lego resellers—to sell the collection on consignment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Mayweather wrote a check for $200,000 to Las Vegas high-end consignment store Gold and Beyond for the timepiece on Dec. 25, 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Rejected by publishers after his release, he paid to have books printed in China and gave copies to street vendors near Harlem’s 125th street station to sell on consignment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Unlike the previous shipments, which were carried by the Mexican navy, Monday's aid consignment was transported by a merchant ship, sailing under a Panamanian flag, AFP journalists observed.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
He went to his sister’s fish store on Ludlow Street and persuaded her to give him a consignment of herring on credit.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Archived, whose clientele consists mostly of celebrities and high-profile curators such as Timothée Chalamet, Travis Scott and Don Toliver, sources its pieces through consignments from sellers and endless hours spent hunting across international marketplaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The correspondence from Defra also highlighted a pilot scheme which followed up on plant consignments that had not attended the border control post within three hours of arrival at the port.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
"We're seeing 20 to 30 percent more engagement, more registration, more people bidding," Ibrahim Faraj, Propstore's UK consignments manager, explained at a media preview of some British-based items before they headed to California.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
There were too many opportunities for police to intercept consignments.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
“Cater’s been sending new consignments as fast as they could go for the past three days; he’s loaded up with machines.”
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
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