Is it possible to sell dresses in bulk? If so, how?

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To say my dp is a hoarder is the understatement of the century. She is also addicted to buying dresses and has - I can't estimate how many, but think three double wardrobe rails and literally covering the floor of her bedroom, plus piles in corners. Must be in the hundreds. Many of them have never been worn, because there aren't enough days in the year.

I won't go into how horrendous it is to live with this habit - and how expensive - but the good news is that she has decided she needs to get rid of at least some, and given how much she has spent on buying them it would be nice to get a little bit back. She could ebay them but she's not IT-competent and I worry that it will take so long to sell them individually that she will lose momentum. Ideally, she would sell them in bulk, accepting this will be for a fraction of what she paid for them.

I have googled, but all I can find is places that will buy designer clothes off you. These are not designer - they're good quality high street e.g. Hobbs, Planet, Phase 8. Does anybody know a way of shifting them, other than give them to charity? (Which I would do, like a shot, if it was up to me.)

Many thanks.

Facebook selling,market stall?

Are they mid-high range vgc clothes? Unlikely to get much ££ for them but you could photo & put the bundle on eBay. Good luck

eBay bundle?
Local Facebook buying and selling site?

If she's an 8-10 just send them my way. Helpful

Or my way if it’s a 12-14

Second hand clothes fetch hardly anything usually. You could try a dress agency who might take some. Car boot or market stall people will pay hardly anything for second hand clothes and it's a lot of work for not much return. Ebay also would be a lot of work, photographing, listing then packing up to send and people returning them because of some feeble reason.

Also bidding for 8-10, seriously though, have v naice wedding to go to in edinburgh in may, I have nothing to wear!

I would not be expecting not to pay- if this is allowed on mn!

I've sold loads through local dress agencies. I take a pile in, they go through and pick what they think will sell and I take the rest to charity shop. They charge roughly half of original price (more if tags still on). I get half of the sale price. So I'm only getting 1/4 of original price, but still better than nothing.

Is she a busty 12/14?

are they evening dresses (full length) or work dresses, casual dresses, what?

Ah, thanks all. No magic bullet, then. I worry that anything that involves sorting and selecting will mean that it won't happen. But yeah, can also see that advertising 200 size 12 frocks for sale is not going to appeal to many buyers.

I may have to organise an accidental bonfire.

Another one that would be interested if size10/12

Anywhere near Hastings? A friend sells for you abd takes a cut

Bundles/lot of 5-10 dresses on eBay is your best bet

But why not put some in storage and wear the rest? I find this Kondo method quite odd to be honest. Dresses are not going to go stale. If you store them properly you can even pass them to your grandchildren, why such a hurry to get rid of everything (probably to them make room to buy more)?

See if there is a nearly new shop near to you. They may buy some off you on a bulk deal.

Thanks all. They're size 12, a mix of day dresses and party dresses, many have nipped in waist and full skirt as that is her look. They're nice - she has very good taste for a future star of C4's 'The Hoarder Next Door'.

Maybe I should wait till she's out one day, put up our address and just invite any MNer in our part of London to pop by with a roll of black binbags

Bugger. Was hoping you'd say you were in North Lincolnshire.

I'd have been round with my size 12 ass to go through them for you.

At one point I had as many dresses as your DP by the sounds of it, if not more. It got to the point where I was thinking I was going to have to move to a bigger house, they were taking up so much room. That was a wake up call for me and I realised I needed to have a huge clear out.

Like someone mentioned, I used the Konmari (Marie Kondo) method to sort through them and sorted them into keep, chuck, store in the loft and sell.

I bought some space saver vacuum bags to store the items I couldn't bear to part with but wasn't wearing at that time (mainly because they didn't fit) and I invested in a mannequin to photograph the clothes and then uploaded them as individual listings to ebay over the coming months. Yes, it was hugely time consuming and at times I did feel like I was losing momentum, but it actually taught me a massive lesson. Now, every time I feel like buying something I think of how much hassle it is to sell it on and it makes me question whether I really need the item or not. Ebay paid off for me and so far I've made a 5 figure sum, simply by selling dresses I never wore.

Good brands and size 12 sell well on ebay or take them to a ebay shop, ie a shop that sells things on ebay on your behalf and takes a cut of the money.

There are the newer clothing apps also.

But your suggestion of advertising to mnetters isnt that bad, choose a day advertise on gumtree, mnet and locally, highlighting the brands and sizes available and you may do better than you think. Like a private car boot sale.

Why don't you just set aside some time and help her ebay them? Spend a couple of hours at it every week and you'll get through them.

You can sell by weight at cash 4 clothes. You’d only get a few £ per bin-bag full of dresses, but at least it would mean no sorting, and they’d be off the floor and out the house.

EBay them, then send us a link on here as I'm very very interested

Some really great ideas here. Thanks everybody - I'm going to show the thread to dp and see what would work for her.

AnaViaSalamanca - really, I'd just like to be able to see the floor in my bedroom. Right now, I have to climb across clothes dunes, literally. In some places the piles are 4 feet high. There's so many she can't even enjoy them because she can't see what she's got.