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

I've sorted out the 'only for charity shop' and winter stuff and am still left with piles of clothes. Just thought I'd check back for ideas. And I've cut up my bits of 2" square card!

They tell you to put it in boxes with your name on to get back at the end, and when I went to the last one 2 years ago there was only coats on hangers, so not sure if they'll just take things off hangers.

The information for sellers is 2 pages long but unfortunately no price suggestions.

why not just give it away? i find it ridiculous that people want a few quid for their kids' used clothes. I am proud to pass on my son's stuff for free. I got much of it for free anyway.

Because, chandellina, quite a few of the people you find "ridiculous" will need that "few quid" to eat this week.

chandellina - I often sell things on, though usually on ebay. The money I make from the things I'm finished with pay towards the new things I need to buy. I'm not skint but can't afford to be wasteful with money.

ok, sorry, i should have modified to be - if you can afford to give it away, why charge?
I live in an area with a local online forum flourishing with kid stuff and I find it a bit tight that apparently well off people will charge £2 per vest or £3 per t shirt, that sort of thing. Not least because the prices always seem way too high to me anyway.
I take clandestine pleasure in thwarting their sales by stepping in with big bags of freebies.
But even more so I take pleasure in feeling that - what goes around comes around.

I do give a lot of stuff away, certainly anything from Tesco, Next, Sainsbo's etc, also school uniform (too specific to sell!).

But I do seem to have quite a lot of Bodeny bits that haven't had much wear and I reckon it's worth me trying to sell it.

I'm out of work atm and DH doesn't earn very much either so we could do with the dough.

I have the pile of stuff to give away and I do give things to my friends, but I just thought I'd like to try and sell some stuff for once.

Will probably try and buy my boys something special with the money. If I ever get the labels on the things.

NCT take 35% of the sale price anyway so it's not like they don't get a decent amount for the charity.

Sounds like NNSs are better for buyers than sellers. Clary I would have thought you'd do better to sell your boden stuff on ebay

ok, maybe I need to rethink my generosity. Have just seen a posting from someone I gave a load of 0-12 month baby clothes to now selling them, a year on!

Your prices sound about right from my experiences of NCT sales.

It does seem that you can get a better price there with a captive audience than on eBay.

I think some branches of NCT hold 'table-top" sales where people tend to haggle, and some branches do the sales with labels - ie pay at the end and the money gets divvied up later.

Do you have to collect your unsold stuff at the end? If you can't bear to do that, then I'd try and undercut everyone else, but if you can't bear to sell them for pennies, I'd put a decent price on them and hope for the best.

There's always the loft...

Clary, trying to remember how old your DD is...if her cast off Boden is age 7-8 I'd be interested!

Our local NCT has a project called "Little bundles" whereby they give collections of the basic baby stuff to new mums who can't afford to kit themselves out. People have the option of saying that if their stuff doesn't sell at the sale, instead of taking it back it can be given to the project - is it worth seeing if there's something like that at your local branch?

They say if you don't pick it up within the half an hour window at the end it goes to charity. I've offered to help so won't get waylayed and miss the window, also I feel I should get involved. Will probably give left over to charity shop anyway, or put on free board on NM, and hope it goes to a good home.

Our local children's centre ran sales on this basis - they did issue pricing guidelines, but I'm afraid I don't have them any more.

They have however decided that the sorting and returning lark is just too monumental, so they have moved to table top sales.

Clary - if you have Boden cast-offs, they are well worth selling individually on eBay (or direct to me)

I used to run our NNS, and the guidelines are to start at about 25% of original price if in really good nick, and to take it down from there.

This said, experience taught me:
*clothes in the sizes below 12 months are harder to shift, as people tend to have most of them. So these should be lower, or bundled.
*Boden always sells and can be priced slightly higher if in good nick.

• Gap, Next, Pumpkin Patch, John Lewis, JoJoMamanBebe also popular and hold their value most. *M and S seems to be regarded on the same level as the supermarket clothes. *People know that George = Asda, Tu = Sainsburys etc. It's amazing how many sellers like to think that their buyers are naive to the point of stupidity. *Equipment like Grobags sell well. If you want them to go, £8 would be fine. If you aren't fussed if they don't sell, try £10, but there is no guarantee.

NNS is a huge amount of work, but it is an amazing experience. Although it is a faff for the sellers to get it all labelled correctly, it results in higher sales overall, as customers don't have to trek from table to table, but can see everything laid out in departments for them to compare, and the professional look of the sale does encourage people to spend.

I usually think that I have done OK if I sell more than I buy!

Helpful post anner thanks.

Re ebay for Boden:

We put on one of our fave fleecy tops in a 2-3 (actually fitted both my boys at aged 4). It sold for £1. Not really worth the hassle.

There was a lot of Boden going when I searched.

Panda DD is nearly 9, yes, some of the Boden bits are 7-8 as she suddenly seems to have grown.

More tops than trews tho - 7-8 trousers still fit oddly enough. I think she has my curse of long body and shorter legs!

Will have a look through and post in for sale when I get a mo.

We used to help with NCT sales but quite honestly after 2 years of it I found it was far more profitable to put everything on ebay and then donate 30% of those sale prices.
There were thousands of vests and sleepsuits left every time.

Clary, have you tried the for sale boards here? We are in Bodenland, after all...

Vest and sleepsuits left? Yes, in the smaller sizes. Once you get north of 12 months, they tended to sell, as proportionally fewer survive intact to be sold on at the same time as we become less fussed about pfb wearing only the newest and shiniest clothes.

George, Tu and Cherokee stuff labeled as "designer" never sold!! Make sure that your branch has a firm policy on tat, weeding out the crud before the sale. We have one volunteer whose job is to check quality. Our guidelines to sellers state, "if you have to look at the top in various lights to see whether you can still see that stain - the answer is, it isn't of Nearly New Quality!"

I've also had some success on Gumtree.

no, not got round to posting in For Sale on MN but maybe I will in advance of NNS locally