Selling kids stuff on consignment

Hi, has anyone had any good experiences with selling kids clothes? I recently sold to a popular consignment store in the west end and had a really poor experience. Typically consignment stores will tell you which items they want and what they’re offering for each before selling them. The owner of this store was super unresponsive, took 3 weeks to get back to me and proceeded to sell my stuff before even telling me what she took or sending me an e-transfer. I got Pennies for brand new stuff with tags on it. It also didn’t make sense to take the store credit because it came out to almost the same as the cash. Do you have better luck selling stuff on Facebook? Clothing swaps?

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We sell at once upon a child. You get a couple bucks per item. Tag or not you get the same price, so it's better to remove them so the person buying them doesn't get charged a higher price when you got $3 for a $50 item they are reselling for $25

But yeah we love once up a child

If you want more money for your items maybe try on Facebook marketplace. But it's more of a hassle.

Thanks for the tip! Yeah it definitely wasn’t worth the hassle to go through all this for $30. I expected a higher store credit so I could get new clothes for my baby but I’ll just go to the giant thrift stores in Mississauga.

Do you know why Vinted app is not popular here in Canada? In Uk an EU I sold lots of stuff but here I ended up using Marketplace for higher price and once upon a child for used-low value stuff!

Not sure, I think some things just don’t catch on here. I’ve used Poshmark before but I don’t get a lot of interest in kids stuff there. Definitely will stick to marketplace for higher value items from now on and Once upon a child for bulk!

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