A Children's Consignment Sale and Mom Extravaganza

Reduce clutter.  Recycle your kid's stuff.  Reward your family.

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 are, the more money you can make.

**  There is a minimum number of 40 items and a maximum number of 200 hanging items per consignor ID. (some categories have limits: 120 hanging items, 10 maternity items, 10 women's clothing, 10 pairs of shoes, 10 adult books)

1) Sort and Review your items:   

• Please read over our accepted items page carefully before you prepare your items!  This will save you time because we will NOT accept certain items at check in!

• Check for stains, broken zippers, missing buttons, missing tags with the size, bally fabric, tears, missing pieces, etc. (anything that is not "like-new" will not be accepted at check-in). 

• Children's clothing sizes 9-12 must be brand name only.  

• Check to make sure none of your items appear on the Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall Lists:

                Children's Product List (not including toys)

                 Toy Recall List

2) Enter Your Inventory into our software:

             Hamburg, NY

                Batavia, NY

3) Prepare your items

Clothes:

• There is a maximum of 120 pieces of children's clothing per consignor.

• 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, Peebles and department stores will give you left over hangers for free if you ask them.  We do give left over hangers to our consignors when possible at the end of our sales.

Shoes:

• 10 item limit!

• 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.

• Don't forget there is a limit of 10 pairs of shoes per consignor.

Toys/Baby Equipment:

• Must be completely clean and assembled. (give yourself time to assemble at your drop off appointment).  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 them to the main item. Games should be taped closed & contain all pieces

• Tie your tag through these items or tape securely.  Do not tape over the bar code.

• It is a good idea to write your consignor ID on zip lock bags with a sharpie in case 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 assembled and include manuals and directions if possible.  You may want to touch up chipped furniture with paint- it is worth the investment!  Give yourself time at your drop off appointment to assemble your furniture.

• 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.

Books:

• We can not accept books in zip lock bags unless they are all of the same theme. By author, character, etc. You cannot tape the bag shut.  Customers must be able to easily look at all books.

                      

4) Print your tags and attach to your items.

**In order for your tags to print properly you need to use Internet Explorer as your browser.

• Safety pin or use a tagging gun to attach your price tag to the top right corner of the garment. 

• 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 make sure you tape the tag so that it can be removed and still readable at check out. *Tip lock bags works great for these items.

• We can not accept any tags with cross outs or white out on it.  *Tip: use a hole punch at the top of your tag for the pin.

• We can not accept tags that are taped over each other.

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Minimum price on any item is $2.00 so you may have to group more than one item together to reach this price. (ex: 2 or 3 onesies together in a zip lock bag) Prices must increase in increments of .50 or $1.00

Pricing Tips:   

• 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.

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

• We recommend that you always mark your inventory for "discount".  This means that if your item has not sold by the last day that a customer can purchase it for 50% off.  This will help you sell way more items the last day and make way more money!