The Well-Priced Booth
Booth vendors have been given pricing advice that has no term in it for rent.
Know what to do with every piece in your booth that's past its date — cut, move, bundle or pull — and what each one costs you to keep, within 30 days. Without a spreadsheet you have to keep up with, without national sold comps, without measuring anything, and without waiting to see what a shopper does.
One thing up front: this is a method you run, not a service you buy. An afternoon to set up, about an hour a month after that. If you won't walk your booth once a month, it won't do anything for you.
How it works
Your mall rents you space by the square foot, by the month. That's the whole deal, and it's the one cost every piece in your booth is running up whether or not anybody touches it. ResaleOS, writing about booth break-even math in August 2026, puts typical rent at $100 to $600 a month, with the mall commonly taking 10% to 15% commission on top.
Now look at what you were told to do about a piece that isn't selling. Mark it down at 60 or 90 days. Price at 3× what you paid, or 4× to 7×. Check the sold comps. Every one of those answers what is this worth. Not one of them answers what is this costing me to keep.
Imagine running your booth without any of this: without a spreadsheet you have to update every week, without looking up comps for a piece nobody's searching for, without a tape measure, and without a single decision that depends on a shopper showing up.
Set the clock.
Turn your rent into a cost per square foot per day. In the example booth I use throughout — $240 a month, 8 by 10 feet, a 13% mall cut — that's 10¢ per square foot per day. Ready-made tables cover rent levels from $1 to $5, so for most booths this is looking up one number.
Give every piece a meter.
In that example booth, a teacup set costs a nickel a day to keep. A dresser costs 80¢. Same shelf, same date on the tag, sixteen times the bill.
Put a sell-by date on the tag.
Set by the piece's size and by how fast that kind of piece sells in your mall — not a flat 90 days for everything. Big and slow gets a short leash. Small and quick gets a long one.
Sweep once a month.
Every piece past its date gets one comparison: is the markdown it needs smaller than what its space will cost over the next 30 days? Yes, cut it. No, it moves, bundles or comes out. You finish with a decision on every piece, not a list of valuations.
Before you decide
The work is real and it's yours. Setting up takes an afternoon: you'll walk your booth, work out your rent per square foot per day, and put dates on tags that don't have them. After that it's one pass a month, about an hour. The monthly sweep isn't an add-on to the method — it is the method. If you won't do it, this won't help you and you shouldn't buy it.
You'll need your mall's sales report, or your own notes on what sold. The speed classes come from what your booth actually does, and without that you're working from my starting estimates instead of your own facts.
It runs on your numbers, not mine. Your rent, your square footage, your mall's commission and card fee. The speed classes come out of your own sales report, and the guide gives you the rule for moving a kind to a slower or faster class when your booth tells you the first guess was wrong. The example booth in the guide is there to show the arithmetic working — it isn't the booth the method runs on. Yours is.
No testimonials on this page, and that's deliberate. I could have a wall of them by next week and you'd have no way to check a single one — nobody in this category does. So here's the harder thing instead: the arithmetic is on this page, and you can run it against one stuck piece in your own booth in about ten minutes. If it doesn't hold up, don't buy it. That's a better test than a stranger's five stars.
What I won't promise. That your pieces sell faster, that your sales rise, or that your booth covers its rent. Those depend on your mall and your shoppers, and anyone promising them is guessing at your expense. What this gives you is a decision on every stuck piece and a number beside it — which is the part you control, and the reason I can guarantee it at all.
Where it stops. If your mall charges commission only, with no rent for the space, the clock has nothing to run on and you should skip this. The method exists because rented space is metered. No meter, no method.
What's inside
A 41-page guide, written for first-time vendors and people who've had a booth for years. Twelve printable tools, each as its own PDF. Plus an all-in-one file if you'd rather print from one document.
Clock Setup Worksheet
Your booth's own cost per square foot per day, on one page
Rent level pages, $1 to $5
You look up your number instead of calculating it
Max-Pay Cards
You know the most to pay for a piece before you pick it up
Lowest Price Helper
You tag a piece in seconds and know the floor you won't go under
Stuck Piece Decision Card
Cut, move, bundle or pull — decided in one pass
Sweep Log
One line per stuck piece, so a sweep ends in decisions
Tag Dates & Sweep Checklist
Every tag carries its own deadline
What Sits Here Log
You learn what your mall actually buys, from your mall
Local Price Check
You price against the building you're in, not eBay
Booth Space Map
You see which shelf is earning and which is storage
Stay, Shrink or Leave Scorecard
You can tell a slow month from a booth to give up
Your First 30 Days
You know what to do on day one, not just in theory
The Exact Math
You can run the method by hand if you'd rather not use the tables
Included
Free updates, forever, on the link you already have. Your download links don't expire, and when I revise a document the same link serves the new version. This isn't a promise about the future — it's how the delivery already works.
The Pricing Clock Quick Check. The free starter, with the pages on comparing booths and the questions to ask a mall before you sign. Useful if you're ever thinking about a second booth.
There are two because two are real. Padding this to five is the thing that makes a page read as a pitch.
Everything, and the price
$27.00
One payment.
No anchor, no “normally $197”. The price is the price. If I ever raise it, it'll be because I'm charging more, not because a strikethrough converts better.
Get the Booth Kit — $27.00Who's selling this
I build pricing tools for booth vendors, and I made this because the advice in this category has no term in it for rent — the one cost every vendor is definitely paying.
Here's my business model, plainly, because you'd work it out anyway:
This $27.00 kit is not where I make money. It's where I find out whether you and I are a fit. At checkout there's a $17.00 pack of print-ready tags and signs — take it or don't, the kit works without it. Afterwards I'll offer to do your first sweep for you as a Done-For-You Booth Report at $97.00, and there's a $12.00-a-month Monthly for people who want each month's checklist and calendar done for them.
That's the whole ladder. Nothing is hidden, nothing auto-enrols you, and the kit is complete on its own — I've been careful that the tools don't quietly require the thing I'd sell you next.
I'd rather tell you that than have you discover it at checkout and wonder what else I left out.
Questions
Printing. The tools are designed for plain paper and black and white — the date labels are coloured by quarter so they still read in greyscale. Nothing else is required. The tag pack and the report are optional and I've said so above.
Unknown, and be suspicious of anyone who gives you a number. What I can tell you is what the method produces and when: a decision on every piece past its date, within 30 days of starting. That's the thing the guarantee is attached to, because it's the thing I can actually promise.
There's plenty and most of it is free — markup multiples, sold comps, mark down at 90 days. Two of them are worth reading. None of them prices for the space a piece takes or the days it sits, which is the entire point of this.
Because it's the first thing I'll sell you and I'd rather you buy the next one. See the founder letter — I'm not pretending the price signals the value.
If your mall charges by the square foot, by the month, the method works as written. If it charges a flat booth fee, the guide shows you how to convert that to a per-square-foot rate. If it's commission-only with no rent, the clock doesn't apply and you should not buy this.
Then start with the free Quick Check instead. It has the pages on comparing booths and what to ask a mall. Come back when you've signed something.
No. Everything is paper. There's a separate workbook with a spreadsheet if you want one later, but the kit is deliberately printable — the method has to survive being used in a booth, standing up, with a pen.
Email support@thewellpricedbooth.com within 14 days and I'll refund it, no questions, and you keep the files. That's the whole process. The refund policy says the same thing.
14-day refund, keep the files. Instant download.
This is an education product about pricing and merchandising. It is not financial, tax, legal or business advice, and it makes no claim about what you will earn. Examples use a made-up booth with its assumptions stated, to show how the arithmetic works. Your results depend on your mall, your pieces and your shoppers, and no pricing method can promise a sale.
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