TIPS FOR CONSIGNORS

Hello and thank you for selling with us! Enclosed is information that will help you succeed at our consignment sale. We’ve grown with every sale and are constantly improving our operations. We greatly appreciate your support and hope that you benefit from the sale as much as the shoppers and the church. Our consignment team does a great job of advertising, bringing in more shoppers with every season. However, it takes good consignors with good items to make our sale a success.

If you have any questions, please email consignment@assuranceumc.org.

Matthew 25:36

"I needed clothes and you clothed me..."

Schedule

2015 Fall/Winter Kid’s Consignment Sale

Receiving Tuesday 9/15/2015: 5:00pm-8:00pm Wednesday, 9/16/2015: 9:00am-7:00pm

Volunteer Pre-Shop Thursday, 9/17/2015: 5:00pm-8:30pm

Sale Friday, 9/18/2015: 9:00am-7:00pm

Half-Price Sale Saturday, 9/19/2015: 8:00am-12:00pm

Pick-Up Unsold Items Saturday, 9/19/2015: 3:00pm-4:00pm

My Consignment Manager This online system will allow you to create, edit, and print tags from the online system; schedule a drop-off time; and view the status of your item(s) during the sale (View Settlement Report). Register at www.myconsignmentmanager.com/assuranceumc.

Money, Money, Money • Consignors receive 70% of the sale price and Assurance UMC receives 30%. Proceeds from the

sale go to help the missions and ministries of Assurance United Methodist Church. Consignor checks are sent to the mailing address on the MyCM system and typically take 3-6 weeks to process.

• Upon registration for the sale at www.myconsignmentmanager.com/assuranceumc, you will be directed to pay the $6.00 registration fee through PayPal or by mailing a check to the church. If you are paying this fee by check your registration will be completed once the payment has been received.

• Saturday is our half-price sale date. You are not obligated to sell your item(s) at this discount. You will be prompted to choose when creating your tags.

• Once you register you items make sure you schedule a drop off time to bring your items to the sale.

• View the status of you item(s) each night after the sale closes at the (View Settlement Report) option

 

Donating • Never want to see your stuff again? Consider donating any unsold items. • After each sale the remaining items go to local charities serving children. • If you would like to see your unsold items go to one of these worthy causes, you simply need to

select Donate when creating your tag. It is possible to donate some items and not others.

Volunteering • Would you like to shop the sale early? • By signing up for just one shift (before, during, or after the sale) you can shop the sale on

Thursday at 5:00pm. Volunteers can bring a friend to the pre-sale too! If you work 3 or more shifts you can shop the PreSale beginning at 3:30pm (friends will still have to wait until 5pm to shop with the other volunteers).

• You can register for a convenient volunteer shift on the SignUp Genius website link provided on our webpage (www.assuranceumc.org/children/consignment-sale).

 

ACCEPTABLE ITEMS AND TAGGING INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE CHECK ALL YOUR BABY ITEMS FOR RECALLS!

What Is Accepted? For the Fall/Winter Sale we will be accepting seasonally-appropriate, new & gently used children’s clothing, baby equipment, maternity clothing, toys, shoes, and some furniture.

Good items to sell at this sale include:

• Clothing, sizes preemie to teen and maternity • Infant gear (strollers, play yards, monitors, etc.) • Children’s bedding and room décor • Bikes and outdoor play equipment • Infant/Toddler riding toys & activity centers

• Arts & crafts, books & DVDs • Sports equipment • Dolls, dollhouses, and action figures • Trains, train tables, and accessories • Board Games & Electronic Game Systems

Tags • Tags should be printed on white card stock (60#, 67#, or 110#). This type of paper can be found

at any office supply store or superstore. For your convenience, we will provide bundles of 15 pages at the church for $1 each.

• Use an inkjet printer with the NORMAL OR DRAFT SETTING (best quality is too dark and causes the barcodes to bleed and therefore not scan properly at checkout).

Clothing and Shoes • Fall/Winter children’s clothing sizes preemie to juniors. • The junior size clothes are all grouped into one section by gender. • Dancewear, sportswear, capris, and jeans are accepted year round. • All school uniform items are accepted year round. • Bathing suits are sold at the Spring/Summer Sale only and should be on hangers. • Heavy Coats are sold at the Fall/Winter Sale only • Garments need to be on hangers. We accept all types of hangers. However, the item must be hung

with the opening of the hanger on the left as you are looking at the front of the garment. Pants can be hung on pants hangers that have two clips on the top. An alternative is using safety pins to hold the pants to the hanger.

• Tags should be pinned to the top right of the garment (as you are looking at the front – see image).

• It is okay to combine like items (2 or 3 sleepers for example) and price as one unit. • Please convert any sizes from S, M, L to the corresponding number size so they can be placed on

the correct racks. • Garments should be clean, without holes, rips, or stains. (Downey Wrinkle Release helps garments

look their best on the hangers.) • Shoes must be in like new, excellent condition. They should be clean and season appropriate. No

winter boots at the Spring/Summer Sale and no sandals at the Fall Sale. • Shoes need to be bound together with zip ties or string, with the tag affixed to the top of the

shoe or to the zip tie. ** Please do not place shoes in Ziploc or plastic bags **

MATERNITY • Season appropriate maternity clothing in good condition. • Maternity clothes follow the same guidelines as children’s clothes, but will be categorized by S, M,

L, XL, etc. • Maternity and infant care books and DVDs.

• Like-new nursing bras and breast pumps are accepted.  

 BABY EQUIPMENT • High chairs, bouncer seats, feeding booster seats, pack & plays, play yards, infant swings,

exersaucers, walkers, jumpers, bathtubs, bed rails, bumbos with lap belts, baby monitors, safety gates, baby carriers, bottles, and diaper bags.

• Strollers: umbrella, single, double, jogger, all accepted in good working order.

BIG TOYS • Bikes, tri-cycles, kitchens, tool benches, play houses, swimming pools, slides, picnic tables,

etc…SELL WELL!

TOYS, BOOKS, GAMES, AND VIDEOS • Toys should be in good working order with all pieces, and they sell better with working batteries.

We do not require the item have batteries but you will be asked to place sale-provided batteries in the toy or game to verify to the check-in crew that it is operational. Please be respectful of our shoppers by including all parts and accessories.

• Due to health concerns we are no longer able to sell stuffed or plush animals. Animated or musical plush toys will still be accepted.

• Games: Board Games, Electronic, Playstation, XBox, Game Cube. Games should be rated E for everyone.

• DVD movies with cases only. Make sure the case and video match. Movies should be rated G, PG, or PG13.

• Books for babies, children and pre-teens. Please check books for torn pages and “artwork”. Books are a terrific seller and it is very hard for our check-in crew to look at every page.

• Toys, books, etc. should be tagged using tape. The tags should be taped across the top and not below the —www.myconsignmentmanager.com— line, this is where the cashier will cut the tag and it can cause delays during check-out if it is difficult to cut. It is best to use scotch tape as packing tape is hard to remove and could damage the item. Books are welcome to be bundled with twine or curling ribbon but are not accepted with rubber bands on in plastic bags due to the fact that rubber bands easily break and these item can get separated and bagged books do not sell well. The infant books in a set can be places in the infant toy area in bags if they are the 2-3 inch books.

• Use plastic bags (taped shut) or plastic wrap and lots of tape to secure extra pieces to toys. Puzzles do well wrapped with plastic wrap. Please verify all puzzle and game pieces are present.

• If combining like items, place in a plastic bag and list contents on tag. The idea is for the item and all its pieces to stay together. This can be a challenge during the sale for many reasons.

FURNITURE • Toddler beds, bassinets, dressers, changing tables, gliders, rocking chairs, desks, children’s tables,

and book shelves. • All furniture should be clean and you may be asked to setup some pieces for the best display

possible. • Outdoor and indoor play equipment.

BEDDING AND ROOM DÉCOR • Infant and toddler bedding. • Children’s bath décor, room décor, and wall hangings.

WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCEPT Due to increasing concerns, recent recall notifications, or lack of interest we will be unable to accept: • Stuffed animals • Cribs and/or mattresses • Car seats • Underwear, cloth diapers, or diaper covers • Used potty seats • Diaper Pails or Diaper Genies • VHS tapes • Bottle nipples and/or pacifiers • Bumpos without a lap belt