Buyers/sellers of bundles of children's clothes on Ebay - any tips?

[LunarSea]

I've got loads of ds1 and ds2's outgrown clothes to dispose of - mix of goodish makes, High Street and supermarket (Gap, Next, Timberland, M&S, a few bits of Boden, Fat Face, Boots, Adams, George, Cherokee, etc) - but don't have the time or inclination to list it all seperately. So I was thinking of selling it in several biggish bundles.

Buyers - I know if I'm looking I'll ignore anything with trouble/mischief slogans for babies, anything with football strips or camoflague in it, bundles wich claim a huge number of items but turn out to include vests and sleepsuits, and (perhaps wrongly) anything with mis-spellings (bargin, etc) or which don't explicitly say they are from a smoke/pet free seller. What else puts you off? And conversely what makes a bundle catch your eye?

Sellers - What's likely to net more - listing the items from "headline" brands, and big items like coats seperately, or including them in a bundle to attract people looking for that brand? How big is the optimum size bundle? And is there anything else except what I've already listed it's better to exclude/list seperately? Does it make enough difference to justify the cost to pay for gallery images (where you not going to see anything useful anyway if it's a bundle), featured items or subtitles? And where do you actually list bundles for ages 2+? There isn't a category for them like there is for baby clothes.

Or any other tips re things I haven't thought of?

I suspect you might end up with more dosh after fees if you list everything as one bundle; it seems to me that bundles that contain a mixture of big brand/high street things sell for more than a bundle of high street things alone. Also, if you list the more desirable things separately, you're going to have to pay separate listing fees, and paypal fees if you take paypal, while reducing the amount you are likely to get for the bundle. You could always do a photo of everything laid out together for the gallery picture (and I would definitely do one, otherwise you look like a cheapskate). For the other photos, try to group 3 or 4 things together, provided they can all be clearly seen, to reduce your costs for additional photos, and to minimize the amount of photos potential buyers have to trawl through - I get bored scrolling down squillions of pictures, especially if my modem connection is on a go slow (which means it takes forever for the page to download, btw). Hth

use photobucket for the photos.
you get your first photo free on ebay, so no point in paying for the rest when photobucket is free.

good luck

I agree with using photobucket, saves you loads on fees, and the pictures are much better quality.

Personally I don't think you can have too many pictures. People like to see what they are bidding on, and if they are seriously interesred they will wait for the pics to download. With most people on broadband now this isn't really a problem anyway. Make sure the first two pictures are of really nice stuff, and the last picture is of something really nice too.

Usually I split the best stuff from the bundle. You will get more for the bundle with these items in (im talking Boden, FF ((next, gap etc are best off left in))), but you will probably get more for the bundle of 'not so good' stuff + the best stuff on its own, than you will for the bundle with the best stuff in it. That said there is significantly more effort in doing this, and probably not significantly more profit - your call.

Don't make the bundle too big. People will only pay a certian amount. I think 50 items if probably max. If you have different ages the split it up, ie don't put 2-3 and 3-4 in the same lot - it will put people off. Also think about the season. People probably aren't buying summer stuff now (as its freezing and theres loads of it in the sales), but probably won't want to be buying really thick winter stuff either.

Try to split the clothes into outfits, or mix and match sets for pictures. Don't put more than 4 items (ie 2 outfits) in any one picture.

I wouldn't bother with listing upgrades, just get as many brands in the title as possible so the come up on searches ie 'Big girls lot age 2-3 Next gap Boden Fat Face Timberland'.

I would list a bundle under 'sets' in the age catagory.

Hope they go well!!