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Selling at NCT Nearly New Sale - Advice please!!

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bertiebassett71 · 04/11/2006 09:38

Have a load of clothes, baby items, toys etc to sell and have just started to Ebay and freeads some of them. Am thinking about selling at a NCT Nearly New Sale in March (haven't been to one before to either buy or sell). How much does it cost to sell and what experience has anyone had of selling? In our area (Fareham, Hants) there seems to be a few nearly new sales (NCT, Parent Network and local church) so am really unsure of how I would fare. Any advice/recommendations much appreciated as trying to save the pennies (well pounds then) towards emigrating to Oz.

Many thanks!!

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DumbledoresFawkes · 04/11/2006 09:50

I have sold at many NCt sales. They usually work in one of two ways: either you pay for a table up front (usually about £10 round my way) and any money you take is yours, or you put your clothes/items into a general sale, labelled with your name/code and price, and the NCT take a percentage of your takings, usually 25%, sometimes 30%.

Anything else you specifically want to know?

JanenEvie · 04/11/2006 09:53

Hi there
I sell my stuff on ebay and sold at our last local NCT sale it cost £2 to register and they took 25% of the sale!
I personally find NCT great for big items ie larger toys, moses basket/crib ect as postage cost is loads
But I made more cash on Ebay from clothes and smaller items! Depends how much you need the pennies I guess

FarMARSWarrick · 04/11/2006 09:56

The only advice I can think of (and sorry if it sounds obvious... but working off the top of my head and using own NN experience)..

Clean clothes
Sorted into size.
I had one friend who put things in little food bags.
Make small sets (vests, socks, gloves etc)
Keep the prices low but reasonable for you. Maybe price a wee bit higher and be prepared to bring the price down (people love a bargain).
Clear price labels.
Maybe a box with items that are all the same price (people love a rummage)

um........... um............. told you I was working off the top of my head!

Smile a lot when people walk by your stall. I tend to gravitate to the stalls where the people look happy (I do this at the Farmer's market and they've become my favourites to buy from).

Sorry, was out last night and brain refusing to function more.

If you don't get much response today then bump your thread in the week.

DumbledoresFawkes · 04/11/2006 09:56

Yes agree with JE - baby equipment and toys would do well at a sale - especially if competitively priced - the larger the item, the better it seems to sell at NCT sales. But most clothes remain unsold and might be more easily sold on ebay or here.

mrsflowerpot · 04/11/2006 10:01

I have run a few of these for the NCT. You'll generally receive 75% of the sale price - 25% is a donation to the charity/covers costs etc. If you have the right things to sell and price them right you can do really well - we regularly had people make £300+.

Toys, books, videos go really well particularly at this time of year (in fact, we did a toy only one in the run up to Christmas a couple of times). Goes without saying they need to be decent quality, and don't overprice things (about 1/3 of 'new' price is about right, unless it's brand new or something that is really in demand). I wouldn't waste your time sending soft toys tbh, they don't sell well.

With clothes, keep them seasonal (coats and wellies etc will sell well at this time of year) and don't expect too much. Outfits will sell OK as will anything that is from a recognisable brand name or designer. But you are unlikely to shift vests/sleepsuits/really ordinary stuff (it's so cheap new from tesco etc) - although you could try doing a 'bundle' for a one off price.

Equipment - you'll have to check with the organisers, but we didn't take any electrical equipment or car seats and in some venues we didn't have room for big things like pushchairs although we did have a 'sellers board' once where people paid to advertise bigger items.

You do need to put a bit of time into selling, if you treat it like a jumble sale (and lots of people do) you will get nowt, ime. And make sure you follow the instructions about labelling really carefully or your stuff might not go out on display.

Also, it can work to volunteer to help on the day as you can make sure your stuff is well displayed (there have to be perks for the helpers... ).

HTH

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