Editing The Pen Addict 269/transcript (section)

== Kinokunia Bookstore ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' That's like, I spotted that this morning whilst going to get coffee. And I was like, heck yeah, I'm going to go there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So apparently the word on the street is you need to go into the basement of Kinokunia. That's where all the magic happens. The below street level level.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, really? Yeah. I think that's where all the stationary is. So downstairs, because it's a bookstore, right? Yes. Right. Yeah. I saw, I was kind of Googling just to double check, right? Because I saw the name and I was like, hmm, I'm sure I recognize that. And I saw a post come up from our good friend, Mr. Joe Grace, with the top five stationary stores in New York City on the Gentleman Station. Right. So they're there for me. So I'll pop down. No CW because they're moving. But I will be going to a couple of these places for sure whilst I'm here. But yes, I feel like I'm just kind of, I'm kind of living here right now. But I don't know if that's what people will come here for today. We're going to talk about the pen show because the last time you heard us, it was Friday. It was like five days ago or something. And we had a lot more to go, right? We had like the two full days left, right? We only had like half of one day and then we had two full days. So Brad, from your perspective, how did Saturday go? Saturday being the first big public day.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It went wonderfully. Why is that? Because we sold everything. Yeah. Like we packed as much, as many cases as we could physically pack, which was more than we'd brought to any other previous show. And by Saturday, I think we were 90% sold through every single product that we bought. No back stock. Everything was off the table. And then, you know, by Sunday, that last 10% was whittled down to about 2%. So we almost sold out of every single thing we brought, which is good and bad. Like we, I guess the proper fairies is we left money on the table by not bringing enough goods, but we sold everything we brought. So we got to be pretty excited about that. So we've never had a bigger show from a dollar's perspective.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And yeah, with the potential for it to have been more, right? But like, not that that's the thing I think to worry about, right? No. Because I think we sold more than we expected to sell. So we made money, right? Like it was, we just, it didn't stop. Saturday was bonkers. I mean, and what was left was stuff that was probably never going to sell anyway, like no matter what. Just because we had... What are you saying? Because it's all crap. No, it's because it's just like paper stuff and the laniers, they just don't sell as often as the cases, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. Exactly. Yes. The higher, like the laniers are a higher price, so they don't sell as frequently.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So stuff that we had to sell if we needed to, but like the things that most people were wanting was stuff that went super, super quick.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But it was amazing. Yeah, so it was really good. It was a packed house all day, Saturday. Okay. The show didn't close till seven that night, I don't think. Nobody knows. Yeah. Nobody. We still don't know. Some people are still there wondering when it closes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're going to start getting Instagram engines. It was, hey, like, come let me out of this ballroom, please.