The most important rule in tagging your items is to make it SECURE. Make sure items will stay on hangers securely, bags & boxes are taped shut, and items with many parts are taped together well. Toys WILL get handled by our smallest shoppers!
DO NOT TAPE OVER BARCODES.
This video will show you almost everything you need to know about preparing items for the sale.
Hang all clothing items on hangers with the hook facing left to look like a “?”. Clothing should be appropriate for the season of the sale. Styles should be current, especially for juniors, maternity, & women’s items. Clothing more than five years old will not be accepted.
Button all buttons, snap all snaps, and zip all zippers. Iron or use a winkle release spray.
Attach the tag on the right side (as you are looking at it) of the clothing (over the heart).
Use an appropriately sized hanger. Make sure that items will not fall off the hanger. Clothing larger than 2T often falls off child-sized hangers. Even tiny baby clothes can go on adult-sized hangers if you run the hanger up through the bottom of the garment. Remember, Elizabethtown sellers must use only wire hangers.
Pin pants and skirts to hangers by the waistband. DO NOT use the pants-only hangers with the metal clips. Pants and skirts can easily be pulled off and will fall on the floor. DO NOT fold pants over the bottom of the hanger.
For two-piece outfits, pin pants or skirts behind the shirt so both pieces can easily be seen – do not put pants and skirts inside the shirt. Pin the waistband of the pants to the shoulders of the top, pinning through the hanger to let the hanger carry the weight of the pants. Pinning to the back or bottom of your shirt could cause your clothing to tear.
Use a small piece of packing tape to cover the safety pin attaching your tag to clothing items, this will help ensure tags stay on while shoppers are busy going through the clothes racks.
Loose items such as socks, bibs, bottles, hats, and small toys should be placed inside ziploc bags and taped securely. Tape your tag to outside of the bag.
Clothing does not sell well in bags, so use hangers even for small infant clothes.
Shoes can be placed in a ziploc bag with the tag taped to the outside or attached with zipties with tag securely attached (hint – tags taped to shoes usually come off).
All toys, equipment, and furniture must be in working order and clean. Small parts should be bagged and taped to the main part very securely. Clear packing tape is best. Carseats should be clean, no more than 5 years old, and never been in an accident. All items that require batteries MUST have them – no one will buy an item if they aren’t sure it works. If you have the manual to an item, please include it. Make sure you DO NOT TAPE OVER THE BARCODE.
Use packing tape to secure attach all parts to toys and tags to non-clothing items. Please do not tape tags on soft items like stuffed animals or bedding – they won’t stay on. Do not tape over the barcodes on your tags.
Add a small piece of masking tape with your seller number to any item at risk of losing its tag. We suggest putting this on clothing near the label, inside each shoe, on bedding items, on each part of toys with multiple parts, etc. It will help us retag items that happen to lose their tag during the sale.
To make the check-in process go as quick as possible, please get everything organized at home. Your time is valuable, so don’t waste it tagging items that are stained, broken, missing parts or have been recalled by the manufacturer. You can check the CPSC website or Google to find out if an item has been recalled.
All sellers will need to bring items grouped by size & gender. Use rubber bands to keep hangers of the same size together for easy check-in. If you are choosing to guarantee items priced at $15 or more, please keep those items separate from the others as you will need to complete an additional form at check-in.
