A Children's Consignment Sale and Mom Extravaganza

Prepare Your Items

Directions:
* Follow these directions carefully.  All items that do not meet our guidelines can not be accepted the day of drop off.  Remember the more eye appealing your items, the more money you can make.

1) Sort and Review your items.   -Check for stains, broken zippers, missing buttons, missing tags with the size, pilley fabric, tears, missing pieces, etc. (anything not like-new will not be accepted at check-in). Children's clothing sizes 9-12 must be brand name only.  

2) Enter Your Inventory into our software:

    Batavia, NY

     Hamburg, NY

3) Prepare your items

Clothes

• Wash and iron if necessary (we will not accept wrinkled clothes).  

• Hang all clothes on hangers.  The top of the hangers must form a question mark.  

• 2+ piece sets must be hung together (we can not accept half of a 2-piece set). 

• Pants must be hung on a pant hanger, not folded over so that customers can view without taking them off.  (you will not get your hangers back).

• All buttons and snaps must be done.  Clothing should be presented the same as it would new in a clothing store.

Tip:  Many stores such as Target, Wal-mart, K-Mart and department stores will give you left over hangers for free if you ask them.

Shoes

• Clean top to bottom so shoes are free of dirt and scuffs, laces and straps must be tied together and pin tags to shoestrings or eyelets.

• You may also want to place a piece of masking tape on the bottom of the shoe with your consignor ID, in case the price tag comes off.

Toys/Baby Equipment

• Must be completely clean and assemble. (give yourself time to assemble on drop-off day).  Insert batteries if required (customers will not buy it unless they know it works) and include manuals and directions if possible.

• Place small pieces in a zip lock bag and attach to main item. Games should be taped closed & contain all pieces

• Tie your tag through these items or tape securely.  

• It is a good idea to write your consignor ID on zip lock bags with a sharpie incase the tag comes off.

• Books: clean off covers and check for torn pages. Place price tag on the back.  Videos/ DVD's: must include matching cover.  Place price tag on the back.

Furniture

• Clean and assemble and include manuals and directions if possible.  You may want to touch up chipped furniture with paint- it is worth the investment!

• Place small parts in a zip lock bag and attach to the main piece securely.

Linens

• Wash and iron if necessary.  Pin comforters and items to a hanger.  

• Smaller pieces, such as towels, groups of bibs or changing pad covers, may be sealed in a clear plastic bag or garment bag.

4) Print your tags and attach to your items.

For all items that you want donated after the sale you must print your tags on colored card stock paper. 

For all items that you do not want donated after the sale you must print your tags on white card stock paper. 

Safety pin your price tag to the top right corner of the garment. 

Use colored tags if you want your unsold items to be donated after the sale.  (see our partners page for information on where donate items will do).  Please keep in mind that we are having a bag sale for charity.  All colored tagged items will be sold for $7 per bag.  All money generated from this part of our sale will go directly to charity.

Price tag must include your consignor ID number, item number, brief description of the item, size, price & "(1/2)" if you want your item to be included in our half off sale on Saturday.  We can not accept any tags with cross outs or white out on it.  We encourage you to write a brief description on the tag in case the tag comes off your item. *Tip: use a hole punch at the top of your tag for the pin.

Pricing must be in increments of .50 or $1.00.  Minimum price on clothing is $2.00 so you may have to hang more than one item together to reach this price. (ex: hang 2 or 3 onesies together) 

Pricing Tips:   

1) Use your discretion with pricing but remember if you keep the prices fair your items will sell faster.  The rule of thumb is 50-75% below retail.

2)  Price mart brands (Wal-mart, Target, Kmart etc) lower than higher end brands.  

For all toys, books, videos, equipment, furniture and miscellaneous items that you can not attach a safety pin to; you must securely tape your tags to them.  Please follow same rules for color coding.  Please make sure you tape the tag so that it can be removed and still readable at check out.

3)  If you are trying to decide between two prices; go with the higher price but put the "1/2" sign next to it so that if it does not sell at the higher price you can still make money by selling it at the 1/2 Off Sale.