Sell your stuff

You can collect items from all over your house!  Start with the kids’ rooms & go through everything! Check the toy area, book shelves, attic and/or basement for stored clothing, baby equipment, and don’t forget the garage for bikes, ride on toys, sports equipment, outside play items!

Let’s sort out what can be sold, and what can’t.  Take an initial look through the clothing.  Pull anything with a stain, or rip, or missing buttons.  Check your games and puzzles – are there missing pieces?  Remove them from the pile if so.  Check out the toys – Do they work and have batteries in them? Are all the pieces there as well?  Now you’ve got your “Good To Sell Pile”!

Check the Consumer Product Safety Commission website for recalls. These are most often in the baby equipment category, toys category, and the bicycles/ride on toy category. You can search by recent recalls or type in the brand and model of your stroller as an example. We have found that strollers and baby equipment are the most recalled items. Please be diligent.

You are allowed to enter 350 tags for the sale. Within that number, you are allowed 15 pairs of shoes, 50 book tags – you can do bundles of books in a Ziploc bag if that helps you, 15 items in our bedding category, 10 items in our décor category.  These limits are based on what sells, and how fast it sells.

All things children and maternity!! If your kid wore it, if your kid used it, if you bought it in the kids department, you can probably sell it!
There are some exceptions, so check the link below for more details!

Still not sure!? Email us!

• Hangers
• Packing Tape
• Seal top Baggies
• Zip Ties
• Safety Pins – small to medium size work best
• WHITE Cardstock – also called Cover stock – sold at Staples or Office Max. This is thicker than regular paper.
• Cheap batteries from the Dollar Store for your toys that need them

Make sure DVDs are in the case (Don’t seal the case). Put all pieces for toys into a seal top bag and attach to the toy with a zip tie.  If you are doing book bundles – bundle like books together by type (board, early reader) or age, or reading level. Clean off your baby equipment and wash the pads if necessary. 

Log into the tagging system using your consignor number and password.  Go to My Homepage – then Menu – then Work With Consigned Inventory.  This takes you to our pricing module.  Using the drop down boxes, select a category and size for each item.

First rule of thumb is what would you reasonably pay for this item?  We have a $2 minimum price for each item entered so if you wouldn’t pay $2, then bundle with a like item. Pricing is typically 20-40% of what you originally paid for the item.  Clothing generally sells from $2 -$10 per item with $10 being reserved for Nike or Under Armour items.  We will always tell you to not let an emotional attachment to an item cloud your pricing judgement.

The half price box means that your item will be discounted by 50% if it hasn’t sold during the first days of the sale.  We HIGHLY Recommend selecting this box to give your item the best chance to sell.  The donate box means that if this item does not sell at the end of the sale – you will be donating this item to one of our partnered charities.  We also HIGHLY recommend this option as you will be helping local families in need!

Once you have entered some or all of your tagging information, (you can print as needed) you are ready to print your tags. You will do this through your main menu. 10 tags print on one page of WHITE CARDSTOCK, which you will then cut out to attach to your items. Colored and shiny card stock doesn’t scan at the register.

• When you hang clothes on the hanger, make sure your hanger looks like a question mark!
• Use children hangers for sizes newborn-5T and use adult hangers for sizes 6T and above.
• Plastic and wire hangers are acceptable!
• Using a 1.5 in or 2 in safety pin, attach the tag on the left lapel. This makes it easy for customers to see the tag quickly when shopping the racks!
• Tagging guns will damage the left lapel of a shirt! If you’re using a tagging gun with a shirt, attach it to the original size tag in the center along the neck or in the armpit of the shirt.

Don’t want to type in all of your tagging information – there is a mobile friendly voice entry option that lots of our consignors love.  You speak in the options from the tagging menu for quick and easy tagging.  Give it a try as it can save you a ton of time!

You do not have to retag any unsold items from our previous sales unless you are changing the price, 50% off selection or donation status. You DO, however, have to make this older inventory ACTIVE in the system.

To make inactive items active follow these steps:

• Log into your account
• Select Work with Consigned Inventory
• Select Work with Inactive Inventory – this then lets you select the specific inventory from the past sale that you plan to bring to the upcoming sale. Click the box in front of the item number to select the item.
• Click the “Make Items Active” button at the top of the screen.
• We appreciate you taking the time to keep your active inventory current. If you’ve gotten rid of past items, you can also delete them in the same manner.

Each consignor receives 65% of the selling price of each item.  If the consignor has SERVED as a team member for two 3-hour shifts (6 hours total) then the consignor earns an additional 5% for a total of 70% on each item sold.

If you want to make more money, then join us by SERVING as a Team Member for 2 shifts during the sale.  See the SERVE tab of our website for all the information on how to have fun with us!

SERVE – as a team member – earn extra 5% commission for 2 work shifts

Price to Sell – Don’t let emotional attachment to items cause you to overprice.

Bring Big Items – Strollers, Pack N Plays, Outside Play Houses

ALWAYS choose the DISCOUNT option when pricing.  It is so much better to sell something at half price than to take it home.  On half price days, items that are not discounted on the tag are routinely passed over!

Checks will be mailed 5-10 business days after the sale has finished. During that two weeks, all of the banking is done, reports are printed, etc.  Please make sure we have your current address on file.

NOW – How will you spend your money? Dream Big or Small –  We’ve had consignors use their sale money for Christmas presents, towards vacation expenses, or just save it for all of the little extras that make life special  – a day at the Zoo with the family, ice cream Fridays, etc.