Someone to sell your outgrown baby clothes for you?

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Hi all!

Firstly I just want to say - I'm not trying to sell you a service - I'm just looking for advice.

I'm looking for some advice about whether young parents would be interested in a service that essentially sells on their baby clothes for a portion of the profit? I'm 24 and haven't had kids yet, so I don't have any first-hand experience, but fast fashion is something that drives me insane. And with how quickly kids grow they must go through clothes so quickly... It's such a hassle to list all your clothes on Ebay etc, and you're not even guaranteed they will sell.

For anyone strapped for time, would a service whereby you send you clothes to me then I sell them on and we split the profit 50:50 sound like something you would be interested in? If the clothes don't sell then I could send them back to you and neither of us loose anything. Do you have any advice on what would make this a better offering?

Thanks for reading! I appreciate all advice :)

There's a great company called The Little Loop (originally on Dragon's Den) who do a children's clothing rental service from age 1. They've recently started taking second hand clothes and selling them on - they only sell on certain, ethical brands and therefore only pay a proportion back to the original owner for those brands, but they'll take a mixed bag of clothes and give any other items to charity. They do all the hard work of sorting, washing, photographing etc so the smaller profit for the original owner seems reasonable - more than you'd get from giving to a charity shop and less hassle than Vinted.

So far I've just bought clothes from it and I've found it brilliant - I've got people to pass onto so haven't needed the sale part yet, might do it for the Christmas or other seasonal bits though, as those I'm passing to will be the wrong age for the season for those bits I have. I'm quite intrigued by the rental part when she's big enough, certainly helps with that fast fashion issue OP mentions!

When I was a new Mum back in the 90s the NCT did sales where the donors got a proportion of what the clothes went for. Doesn't that happen any more.
They would only sell genuinely good as new stuff: the quality was great; the charity made a bit and so did the sellers. Such a shame if no one does that now.

It still exists at least in my area. I used to go lots before Vinted.