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We are having a yard sale tomorrow and my husband and I are disagreeing on the prices of the baby items. I have a ton of Carter clothes and several pieces from Target and JCP, which my husband wants to price at $1.00/a piece. These clothes are in good to excellent shape and I don't want to give them away.
What price would you suggest for a Eurorider that has only been used 10 or 15 times? Husband says 5.00, I say at least 15.00.
Do you think someone will pay Avent bottles small (4oz) and large (9 oz) at 2.00 or 3.00?
What do mom's do whom pump BM with thier systems afterwards? I have two Medela electric pump and thought about selling the carriers and the motors (which are in excellent shape--one is only 4 months old) and discard the shieds and tubing? If I were to sell them what is a reasonable price? I don't want to through the entire system in the trash if someone can use them and buy the remaining parts needed at Target.
Any assistance or input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Colleen
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We tried to do the yardsale thing last year and I will never attempt it again. We were like you, had lots of good quality, name brand (some very expensive) baby clothes, most only worn once or twice. I priced all the outfits at $2-$4 a piece and you would not believe the rude responses I got.
I had a grandmother pull up in her brand new Lexus at 8am and tried to toss me two quarters for FIVE outfits?!?! When I said no, the price on the clothes is the price I will take (why in the world would I bargin at 8am?) she got down right pissy. She kept saying, "I am offering you .50¢, I am offering you .50¢." I wanted to knock her right down my driveway. As much as I would love the extra cash, we now take everything to several different charities or list it on freecycle. You might want to try selling the clothes in lots on EBAY. You will probably make more $$$ that way. Good luck!!
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Id hold off the good items and sell them on ebay or take them to a consignment store. Youll make a heck of a lot more selling them on ebay than a yard sale. People try to get things for practically nothing at yard sales.
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Having just had a baby, I can tell you that I would not pay more than $1 for baby clothes at a garage sale, and that is if they were in excelent condition. Most of my nice outfits only cost $6 - $8 new off clearance racks. The stuff I bought used at a consignment shop was around $4 - $5 for stuff like Baby Gap jackets and jeans.
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I just had a yard sale too, and I priced all my ds's clothes at 50 cents per piece. I did OK, but , the one thing you have to remember is that people that shop yard sale's are looking for a deal(my self included) I will say that I took all of the name brand/brand new looking stuff to my local consignment shop & am doing quite well with the sales of my items in there. I did try to sell bottle's and sippy cup's most of which were in very good shape and I only sold a few of them & I had them marked 25 cents each or 5 for a dollar. Your area might be different than mine, as far as how much people will spend, so you might be able to price things a bit higher than I did. If you can, maybe go out a check out a few yardsales and see how they price things. You can always lower your prices during your sale, if you see things aren't selling, or you can tell your customers that you are willing to negociate some of the prices with them if they look interested. Good Luck with your sale!! HTH