How to Prep & Tag Your Items

Pricing

PRICING – We suggest marking your items 75% OFF retail prices. There is a minimum price of $2. For infant clothing sizes 0-12 month, we suggest marking your items at 80% OFF, due to the volume we receive of these sizes. All items priced $3 and under must be marked to be discounted. This includes all items.

DISCOUNTING – If the consignor chooses to discount items, they will be 50% off during our half-price sale hours. Items are 20% more likely to sell if they are marked to be discounted. All items priced $3 or less must be marked “Discount: Yes”.

Pricing Guidelines 

  • We suggest marking your items 75% OFF retail prices.
  • There is a minimum price of $2.
  • For infant clothing sizes 0-12 month, we suggest marking your items at 80% OFF, due to the volume we receive of these sizes.
  • All items priced $3 and under must be marked to be discounted. This includes all items.
  • Below is our downloadable Pricing Guide get you started. It has specific suggestions for pricing clothing.
Pricing Guide PDF

DISCOUNTING – If the consignor chooses to discount items, they will be 50% off during our half-price sale hours

Items are 20% more likely to sell if they are marked to be discounted.

All items priced $3 or less must be marked “Discount: Yes”.

Supplies

  • Hangers— We prefer wire hangers because it’s easy to attach clothing to them with safety pins so that they don’t end up falling on the floor. Child-sized wire hangers are best in the smaller sizes. Currently there is a hanger shortage so you can contact Tina for info on how to get some.
  • Safety pins (use of tagging guns in not allowed)
  • Ziplock bags
  • Tape (packing, Scotch and painter’s)
  • Zip ties
  • Plastic wrap

TIPS:

  • Include manuals or directions to baby equipment, toys and games.
  • Attach a photo to anything too large to assemble or display.
  • Use painter’s tape to attach tags to books and games so they’re not damaged.
  • Include the box only for items that have never been opened.
  • Wrap non-boxed puzzles in plastic wrap, tape it shut then tape the tag to the plastic so puzzles aren’t damaged.
  • DO NOT put tape over the bar-code of the tag

Packaging

CLOTHING

Presentation makes all of the difference in whether or not your item will sell. For clothing, take time to iron, clip threads, check hems…anything you need to do to make your item look great.

All clothing must be hung with hangers facing the left, like a question mark. Attach tag with a safety pin to the upper right front of the garment as you are looking at it (see pic at top of page). Single pants, skirts, shorts, etc. should be safety pinned to the top of the hanger. For outfits, the waistband of the pants or skirt, should be safety pinned to the back shoulders of the shirt, catching the hanger with the safety pin.

SHOES

Secure shoes together with a zip-tie then attach the tag with a safety pin around the zip-tie. The only shoes that can be in a bag are ones that are impossible to zip-tie together. All other shoes in bags will be pulled from the sales floor.

EVERYTHING ELSE

Fabric items—Fabric items (swaddles, bibs, tights, bows, etc.) cannot be packaged in ziplocks so we can easily inspect them. There are no longer any exceptions to this rule. Just fold the item and safety pin the corners so it stays together. Attach the tag with the same safety pin. Any fabric items in a ziplock will be pulled from the sales floor.

Toys—Use Ziplocks to hold small pieces and secure the ziplock to the main piece. Tape ziplock shut.
Puzzles and Games—Wrap loose puzzles in plastic wrap so pieces stay in place. Tape puzzles and games boxes shut.

Tagging

ENTERING – We do not allow blank or “placeholder” tags to be entered into the system. For example, multiple tags that say “shirt”, “toys”, “book”, etc. aren’t allowed. We require every tag to have a SPECIFIC description when it’s entered (e.g. Gap blue shirt with yellow flowers). Item description must include brand, color, and kind of item.

DONATING – Items marked to be donated will print an “X” in the bottom right corner of the tag. These items will go 75% off on our last morning open to the public. Any unsold items marked to be donated will go to Soul Winners for Christ.

SIZING – The tag must disclose all of the information the shopper needs in order to make an informed decision. Sizing Guidelines updated

PRINTING – When you’re ready to print your tags, you will generate a PDF file of them and they print 8 to a page. For crisp, clean bar-codes we suggest having your tags printed at an office supply store like Office Max, FedEx, etc. Although they use laser printers, the quality is much greater than a home printer. Make sure and tell them to use WHITE cardstock, only.

If you choose to print them at home make sure that:

  • You use only 60-67lb. or 110lb. WHITE card stock
  • You do not use a home laser printer
  • Choose “fit to printable area” or “fit to page” in the settings.
  • Your bar-codes are straight, with clear white space between lines
  • If printing on a color printer make sure you choose “Black Cartridge Only” in your settings

Important: If you change something about a tag after printing it, you MUST print a new tag or you won’t get paid for that item. Your online inventory must match what the tags say.