How do I go about organising a secondhand sale?

[cyan]

Hiya, am trying to do a major clear out at the moment. My flat is clogged up with crap that I want to sell but TBH just cant be arsed with ebay as the last cpl of the things Ive put up for sale never sold. Did a carboot last year and was fed up with people bartering over 20p. One woman knocked me for 5p on something I was selling for 20p! I know that sounds rather pathetic but just havent got the patience to do another boot sale, and what with the dreary weather bah, no ta!!!
Would like to organise something like an NCT sale, maybe at a church hall or leisure centre something like that. Would also like to try and rope in some other mums/dads who are looking to get rid of their stuff. Am based in north/greater london. Does anyone have any advice or maybe fancies get involved. Thoughts please ladies xx

responded to a nearly new toys sale just before xmas - was advertised in local paper and every toddler event I went to.

sellers pack was a role of sticky labels with a reg number on which identified me and a list of dos and don'ts

all goods had to be in good working order and labelled with description and price

had to deliver items to venue the night before and pay a £3 sellers fee

got free entry to event on the day (others paid 50p) and it ran the same as NCT events

had to collect all unsold goods an hour after event closed or they went to charity.

20% of my sales went to a local nursing home.

I received my money 3 days later by going back to venue.

It was organised by a local church so guess they had little overheads regards hall hire etc.

I'd like to do something like this too as always miss NCT sale registration - their spaces seem to fill very quickly. Unfortunatley I'm not in London, otherwise I'd been up to help.

I organise NCT Nearly New Sales. We hold tabletop sales, not the drop your stuff off ones.

Your biggest difficulty I reckon would be insurance. When I organise NCT sales we are covered under their insurance policy and I guess the sale leximum is talking about would be covered by the church group's insurance policy.

Other than that you just have to advertise everywhere. Flood the area with posters and leaflets, health centres, doctors surgeries, hospital waiting rooms, toddler groups and some paid for press advertising.

Also leaflet drops the week before in the area where the sale is to be held.

hi julie,
i remember when i was pg someone told me there was nct sale at tunstall community centre but i didnt make it, i dont know why, must have been busy.any nct sale coming around our area?
thnx

Have a look \link{http://www.nct.org.uk/events.asp?show=nns\here} for a list of NCT Nearly New sales.

WE are not on that list yet. I only finalised the date last week.

Saturday 17th June, Tunstall Community Centre 10am - 12noon