The better your items look, the more likely they are to sell and the more money you will get for them. Take the time to prepare your items! Thoroughly inspect the items you are including in the sale. Make sure they are in Gently Used condition free from damage and excessive wear. When preparing your items, keep a donation box close by. If you find an item is not something you would purchase or buy it is probably not suitable for the sale.
Remember, the more care you put into cleaning and tagging your items, the more money you will get for the items and the faster they will sell! Safety Pins Use 1 inch or bigger safety pins. Yarn or Ribbon Hard to tag items can be secured with Yarn or Ribbon. Clear Packing Tape Clear packing tape will allow you to secure all parts to toys and tags to non-clothing items. Ziploc Bags Use Ziploc bags for items with lots of parts.
Zip Ties Zip ties are nice to have if you have an item you need to keep together. How to Prepare Your Items to Sell The better your items look, the more likely they are to sell and the more money you will get for them. Clothing Inspect your clothing carefully. Accepted clothing cannot be stained, soiled, faded, pilled, torn, have holes, missing buttons or snaps, broken zippers or clothing that has unpleasant odors.
Washing your clothing before selling helps remove stains. Clothing must be hung on wire or heavy duty plastic hangers. Sizes 3 and up tend to fall off Infant hangers, causing your items to fall to the floor during the sale. The hanger hook should face the left like a question mark to ensure that the shoppers flipping through the racks can see the front of your clothes. Items that are clean, ironed, and starched sell much better!
When hanging your clothes, zip all zippers and snap all snaps. Replace missing buttons and button all items. Attach your tags using a Horizontal safety pin to the upper right front of the garment as you are facing it.
See the Tagging Guide to help assist you in tag placement and proper pinning techniques. Use Wire Hangers only! Use big safety pins! Clean it iron it hang it price it enter it in the system and stick it the closet. That way once a sale comes around your stuff is ready and all you have to is register for the sale.
Also ask dry cleaners for hangers they will give you some for free. My biggest expense is safety pins but if the sale allows a tagger that will cut out the pins. Or buy safety pins in bulk and. I will never do consignment for a bunch of clothes. Not worth my time for the amount earned. Just the honest truth. But not for clothes.
But still not worth it lol. Never again. You have to tag every item and put a sticker on it. You have to deliver the items in sequential order. Please rhea Lana — keep up with technology. Not for nothing but you can buy a tagging gun with barbs for less than you paid for safety pins and cut your time in half. Call around to local stores or dry cleaners for free hangers! They both have hangers. We take them there and hang them up while there.
Sounds so much easier than what you had to go through. Congratulations on the new baby. Please consider also donating to your local pregnancy life center. I am definitely going to donate in the future. At least I know someone who needs it, will get it. Fortunately we had a couple of items which offset the cost of the booth.
Then the next month we returned same situation. And for the next few months no -one bought anything, understandably. The cost of gas, time, etc caused us to leave that month. Unfortunately we realize now newcomers are funding the co-op owner who has multiple booths unbeknownst to others. Lesson learned: we did real well on ebay for awhile and then that market fizzled. Also, the size of your community, the demographics. While we live in Southern California it would seem the market is unending — but it is very geographic.
I love this viewpoint. I used to consign. I loved it and made money. I also had the time and energy back then. I still might walk around the sale, but usually only for costumes for dress-up. Much like yourself I was spending a lot of money on supplies.
And there were several discount days so he were not very likely to sell many things at full price.. So by the sale took their cut I was making pennies on some items. I now sell anything new or in like new condition on eBay and make far more money..
Many dry cleaners will give you hangers, or you can purchase light-weight wire hangers from Wal-Mart, Dollar General, etc. Clothing seems to sell best when paired with coordinating items and hung as an outfit. Toys Toys with small parts should be placed in a ziploc bag, with the bag securely taped with clear packing tape.
Please do not put tape over the bar code. If small parts go with a larger item, please secure the bag to the larger item with packing tape.
Shoes Shoes should be properly secured together, whether with a zip tie, in a zip-lock bag, etc. It is common for customers to want to try shoes on their children, so please keep this in mind. View our disclosure. You can even bend them to create your own kid-size hangers , if you want to get fancy.
Need more pants hangers? Just attach pants, shorts and skirts to wire hangers with safety pins, like this:.
I have a box in the basement that I throw hangers into throughout the year. This has been an okay solution, but it leaves me with a big tangle of hangers to wrangle with at sale time. Your email address will not be published.
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