When preparing your items for sale, please be mindful of the condition that you would want to find that same item in, if you were considering purchasing it. The more time you put into making your items look perfect, the more money you can earn.

• If your clothing items have been stored in boxes for some time, perhaps running them through a cool dryer with a damp sock would remove the wrinkles and make them more sellable.  Downy Wrinkle Releaser spray is another good option.
• Sneakers that are still in good shape, but have a few scuffs clean up nicely with a Magic Eraser sponge.  Try cutting one sponge into smaller pieces to get the most use out of it.
• Wipe down toys with baby wipes or antibacterial wipes, and if necessary a quick wipe with a Q-tip helps get dirt out of small places.
• Place any items you are grouping together into a ziplock bag and tape it shut.  Tape your tag to the outside of the bag.

All of these tips will help you make your items more appealing to buyers.  Better presented items will sell first, instead of being left to sell on half price day.

Tagging

Follow these simple instructions for tagging all of your items.  All tags will include barcodes and will be generated through our online tagging system.  Supplies needed for tagging are:

• WHITE CARD STOCK- Card stock is a heavy weight paper which can withstand the many hands that touch the tags each sale. Please do not print your tags on regular printer paper, your tags will most likely not remain on your items throughout the sale. Please use white… no blue, green, yellow, or anything but WHITE. Card stock is readily available at WalMart, Target, or office supply stores. DO NOT PRINT ON TEXTURED CARD STOCK – IT MUST BE SMOOTH FOR THE SCANNERS TO READ IT.
  
• scissors
• clear packing tape
• safety pins (clothing found with straight pins, staples, or clothes pins at drop-off will be sent home)
• hangers
• ziplock bags (depending on what you are selling)
• hole puncher
• cable ties (AKA zip ties)

Tagging will go quicker if you prepare a quick list of your items along with their size and price you would like to sell them for.  You will need to log in to your Consignor Homepage with your consignor number and password before you can begin entering your items.  Once logged on you may go to “work with consigned inventory” to enter your items.  We find this system to be much quicker than hand writing every tag, and will allow you at the end of each sale day to log in and see what you have sold. We have a detailed guide to help you navigate your consignor homepage under the Consignor Tab on the Release Forms and Downloads page.

• Hang all clothing with the hanger facing like a question mark.  Do not hang pants over a hanger, instead, pin them to the top part of the hanger (the part that looks like this – Λ ).  For two piece outfits pin the pants to the hanger first, then put the shirt over the hanger.
  
• Punch a hole in the top center of the tag and pin it to the upper left chest area of shirts, and to the left waist area of pants (if the item is facing you the tags go on the right side). ALWAYS choose the location on the clothing item that will do no damage to it, as long as it is on the proper side of the garment.
  
• Secure your tags to toys with clear packing tape.  Make sure all removable parts of the toys are securely taped on so little hands won’t separate them.
  
• For tags on shoes, it helps to put a small piece of packing tape in the area where you will punch your hole and then punch through the tape.  This will keep the tag from being broken off.
• Please do not use packing tape on books, or anything else that will be ruined when it is removed.  Use scotch tape instead and leave one corner un-taped so we may remove it.
  
• Please don’t ever tape over the barcode.

A Note about Tagging Guns:

We understand that tagging guns make prepping for the sale quicker, but PLEASE be mindful of where you place the barb. A barb put in the wrong place can ensure that your clothes won’t sell! Use the tag that is on the clothing or a seam to place your barb. You do not want to damage your clothing and make it unsellable.

The pictures can be clicked 2 times to enlarge them. The first enlargement will have a description of how to hang that item.

 

 

 

 

Moving inventory from previous sales

For consignors returning to Just4Kids, there are some things you should understand about moving your unsold inventory (inactive inventory) to active for the upcoming sale in which you are participating.

• Moving from one season to the next at the same sale (NJ to NJ, or PA to PA). If you are selling at the same sale as the last one you participated in, you only need to “work with inactive inventory”, select the items you want to bring to the current sale, and click to “move to active inventory”. That will make your barcode active for the upcoming sale at the same location. That is all you need to do.
  

• Moving inventory between sales (NJ to PA, or PA to NJ): The important thing to understand about this is that the NJ and PA sales are on different accounts, so you need to transfer your inventory between them. Please follow these steps to ensure success:

1. Register for the sale you want to move inventory into. The only way to be able to move your old tags to your account on the new sale you’re doing is if you have the same consignor number for both sales. If you have already consigned at one location, go to the consignor log-in for the new sale you want to register for and use your old consignor number and password to log onto your homepage and follow the prompts to register for the new location.
2. Please do not work on inventory on the new sale until your transfer is complete!! You want to transfer into an empty inventory.
   
3. Transfer inventory out of the sale it is currently in: To do this you need to log onto your homepage where the inventory is currently located. If you can’t access that homepage because the sale is over and you can’t work with inventory, please just email me and I will transfer it out for you. If you can access that inventory, log onto your homepage and click “work with consigned inventory”, then click  “move inventory out” under transfer inventory to an affiliated sale.
4. For the best chance of having nothing to re-tag, I suggest you select your entire inventory to transfer, therefore emptying your inventory in the sale you are moving it out of. Once the other sale is over, you can move the entire remaining inventory back. Please transfer out in one big batch, into a sale with an empty inventory. This will ensure that your item numbers will remain the same and your tags will be valid.
5. Next, log-in to the homepage of the new sale you are doing. Here you will “work with consigned inventory” and “receive inventory in”. Follow the prompts to receive your batch that you transferred out.
6. My suggestion would be to print an inventory report and compare it to your tagged items to make sure the item # and price are the same on your inventory sheet as they are on your items. Now you may select which transferred items that you want to move to “inactive” because they are not seasonal for the upcoming sale.

If you have any questions along the way, feel free to email me!

Pricing Guidelines

While the prices you set for your items are completely at your discretion, here are a few tips to help get all of your items sold. You can also check this Pricing Guideline, provided by ConsignmentMommies.com.

• We recommend 25-30% of retail on most items.  Boutique and designer names may be priced higher, as well as items still with tags.
• Remember, getting a few dollars for a shirt is still better than getting nothing for it, especially when you’ve got a lot of them!
• It is very important to use the item description field to list the brand name of your item. This is very helpful in enabling us to replace a missing tag during the sale, and getting you paid for your item.
  
• Price to sell!!  Your items will sell on full price days if they are reasonably priced, instead of being left to sell on 1/2 price day. If you do plan on allowing your items to go 1/2 price on Sunday, consider perhaps lowering your full price, even just by a dollar, to make it a great deal at full price.
  
• Let your items go 1/2 price on Sunday.  It’s better to take home 1/2 price than to have to take back items to the closets you just cleaned out!! The goal, of course, is to sell your items on full price days, so again… price to sell!! Please note that our system will automatically mark for “discount” any items that you have marked for “donation” (So if you’re willing to donate it if it doesn’t sell, we’re going to try to at least sell it for 1/2 price on Sunday!).