AIBU to want to ask this much at a nearly new sale?

[Willabywallaby]

Sorry no clue where else to out this but need some help!

I'm trying to sort out my boys clothes for the NCT sale next Saturday in but since I've not done anything like this before I don't know what to price them up as.

Eg original grobag, I was thinking £8 since they are £25 new?
3-6mnth dungarees outfit from M&S, £1.50 or it that too much?
12-18mnths 7 vests from M&S coloured/patterned £2?

I've not managed to get to any nearly new sales recently to see what people ask for things.

Feedback would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Ive never been to one, but Im a master at car boots, and Id say your prices are bargainous

I think thats reasonable, although if that is the price you want, I'd originally go maybe a little higher, because people may well haggle - so say £10 for the gro-bag, £2 for the dungarees and £2.50 for the vests?

(Which still is a reasonable price anyway) - why don't you have a look on ebay and see what things are going for there?

Sounds about right to me, no-one haggles at an NCT sale though because of the way it is laid out. The tables are laid out in 'sections' so you have buggies along walls, area for sleep things, area for clothes/toys etc all with prices, then people pick them up and take them to the soul destroying till queue at the front of the hall and pay.
I hate them

At NCT sales you just put on the price tag and leave the stuff. That's why I don't know what to put. I want it to sell but for a good price!

The woman organising it has taken ages to reply to emails so I'm loathed to contact her. I just need to get on with it.

It's all very precise with the labelling, you have to use coloured card of 2" square with you name tel no, detail of item price, number of item, sellers number. But I have so much stuff and don't like the face to face hassle of a car boot.

If I had time to go to post office/IT ability should do ebay, I always think people get abit carried away on there and things go for far too much, so not realistic for a nearly new sale . But could you tell me have to look at what things have sold for, I used to be able to find it, but have forgotten.

I think NCT sales actually command a higher price than ebay now. It's absolutely swamped on there with baby clothes and you're lucky to sell anything high street for more than a few pence. By the time you've paid out for listing fees, paypal fees and made a loss on postage (in order not to get crap feedback) you can actually end up losing money!!

How odd ot ptu this in AIBU

Why wouldn't you just put in chat? "how much to charge for items at anearly new sale"

ODD.

That sounds like the kind of prices I paid for stuff for dd at the last NCT sale round here, go for it! As long as things are in good condition, people are happy to pay because frankly it's so much cheaper than new.

One bit of advice, if you're bagging up things as a set and they're (eg) differently patterned tops, it's helpful to be able to see a bit of each one - I bought a set of vests where the front one looked fine but the others all had really dodgy slogans on (or put a description eg "7x vests, pictures of dinosaurs")

Put what you like on the tags. People will either buy them or they won't!

Sounds like a bargain to me!

MamaGlee, OP said she wasn't sure where to post this, so no need to be so narky.

I think it depends where you live.Round tghis way you can hardly give away second hand baby stuff.Do you know anyone else who has sold there who you could ask ?

I am a bit ODD. Next time will go straight to chat.

There's not been an NCT sale round here for a couple of years the branch nearly disbanded due to lack of comittee. Any other nearly new sales locally I've not been able to get to.

Just need to do what Jurisfictionoperative said, but would rather they did sell.

Off to NM now to see what they said, like to get a balanced view

The way NCT sales work is different in different areas. At the ones I have been to all the items of the same sort are together and you pay the amount on the ticket. The NCT then takes a percentage of the amount you sell items for and you get the rest. You take the clothes the day before and pick up any unsold ones after the sale.

I know at other ones you make a payment for a table and then whatever you sell, you get to keep. At those ones people will probably haggle. You also need to be there when the sale is on.

I have helped run our local one for years and would say that you should sell them for as little as you can bear to. We always have stacks left over because they just do not sell unless they are both lovely, good makes and very cheap. People would rather buy a pack of three t-shirts from tesco for £2 than a second hand Next one for £1.50 for example.

Also would not bother with vests as they won't sell.

What does sell it equipment and toys.

Your prices seem ok although gro bag might well not go. Unless it's a light summer one in which case you could be in luck. I'd probably not put a gro bag on for higher than 5 quid myself. Try to get as much stuff on hangers as you can as the stuff on the rails often sell better than stuff on tables.

Willaby I think the Grobag might be overpriced, you can buy new ones at TKMaxx for £12, so I wouldn't pay any more than about £7 for one secondhand even if it was is a really good condidition.

The rest sounds fine. The vests will only sell if in really good condition though, with no stains around the neck/cuffs. Like someone else said, they are cheap in supermarkets anyway so if they look tatty they won't sell at all.

It depends entirely upon condition, I've seen some real rubbish stuff at NNSs which I wouldn't think appropriate to send to a charity shop. I'd say the clothes sound like a good deal. I agree £5 for grobag is more reasonable. BTW I'm in no way implying your things are manky Willa

Having two boys I've not bought any clothes for ages so not sure what they sell for new or second hand. DS2 now in age 2 stuff so going to try and sell the bigger things I don't need.

Would even really nice M&S vests not sell? I have sorted out sets of baby grows as well, what's the cheapest they sell new?

I'm not sure how the sale will go, they're asking £2 entry which I think will put people off, others round here are max £1 entry but mostly 50p. It does include a cup of tea though. They are limiting some equipment so I'm not sure I have any. I do have a wilkinet sling and a maya wrap how much do they sell for?

It depends on the quality of the stuff. Are the things really "nearly new" or are they just second hand/well washed?

Also, I personally wouldn't pay that much for second hand vests when you can buy new ones for pretty much the same price.

As someone who generally only buys second hand clothes, I expect a good bargain and find that a lot of people have unrealistic expectations of what their kid's used clothes are worth. People will only fork out ££££ for designer/Mini Boden type stuff. High Street stuff (even Next, M&S etc) is 10 a penny.

I think those prices sound fine.

I am planning to sell a load of Boden stuff at an NCT sale and will be asking £2-£3 a T-shirt, esp for DD's which only she has worn.

They are in excellent nick and let's face it, Boden Ts cost about £12-£14.

If it doesn't sell I shall put it all in the next one. A friend of mine does this and she says it all goes in the end. Remember with NCT you give the charity 30% (well you do at our sales) so £3 is only £2 to you.

£2 - £3 for a Mini Boden T shirt is good value, Clary. I would pay that. You could probably get away with charging even more.

But I wouldn't pay more than £1 for anything High Street and even then, only if it were in really good condition.

I sold a few things at an NCT sale yesterday... £3.50 for a Grobag (the other two didn't sell), £2 for a bodywarmer from John Lewis, £5 for a white maternity shirt from Gap, £5 for a towelling wrap thingy from JoJoMamanBebe and a couple of sets of 3 M&S babygros for £1.50.

I bought a set of 3 pairs of brand new Next tights for £2.50, a Baby Gap dress for £2.50 and a Toby Tiger dress for the same. Previously I have bought Boden t-shirts and skirts for similar amounts.

I went to a NNS recently and most of the clothing was hung up on rails and tagged for payment at the end. there was a table with clothing bagged up, but I couldn't be bothered to rummage through them to find anything, so hang items up if you can.

Most sellers had collated 2+ items per hangar and prices were very reasonable. e.g. I paid £4 for 7x 3-6 month t-shirts and £2.50 for 2x trousers. all items were M&S, Next, Baby Gap etc so were good quality.

I wouldn't buy second-hand vests or sleepsuits I'm afraid as supermarkets sell multi-packs for a pittance.

I paid £3.50 for a summer-weight grobag (but iI'd put it at well-washed rather than nnearly-new) so if your is in good condition, £5 sounds reasonable.

I do loads of NCT sales (selling) and from experience I would say:

Grobag £4 max
Dungaree set £2
Maybe wouldn't bother with the vests unless brand new.

We get suggested prices for items in a sellers pack which was helpful. I think I usually undercharge for things but sell loads so usually make around £70 just with clothes and toys.

Price your items up fairly, if they don't sell, pick them up at the end of the sale and reduce them the next time there is a sale.

I agree with Mintyfresh, go low or it just won't sell, it is disheartening bringing it all home again. Stuff sells much better on hangers, and stuff that was cheap when new probably won't sell at all.

Our branch also send out a seller's pack with all the info in, might be worth suggesting it to yours, the NCT specifies certain things which can't be sold for safety reasons which all sellers should be aware of.