Selling Baby Clothes Online

cleopatra4485

I read in the turn £100.00 into £10000 thread to steer clear of selling baby clothes. I completely disagree. (this is the recession and we are in the middle of a baby boom after all )

I sold all of my items on ebay bar one listing that was just a bunch of vests.

Just some advice after some trial and error on my part.

1. I firstly placed my listings with photographs I had just taken of the items, my items didn't sell. So I then spent a bit of time searching the shops I had bought them from and used the image that was actually on the site, my items then started selling quickly. Every-time I purchase an outfit in future I will be saving the image and the item description, so I can simply re-sell on.

2. Most people are quite inpatient so list your items as buy it now with the option of sending you their best offer (place your items with a value higher than the price you want for them) including the price of postage.

3. List your items with Free postage, include it in your selling price (marketing wise it seems better to the buyer)

4. Baby clothes are small and compact enough (unless someone is buying in bulk) to post on as a Large Letter instead of a packet (I think some people do not realise you can do this) P&P cost me 90p

5. As you want to include the P&P in your total price and make it seem like you haven't, you want to keep it as low cost as possible. You can purchase a pack of clear plastic postal bags example here. Print off your postage via paypal and fold the A4 piece of paper around the item and place in the clear postal bag and push all of the air out. This makes it small enough to sent as a large letter.

I do hope this helps someone, happy selling :beer:

cally6008

1 = you have to be careful that you dont get reported for copyright theft of the photo and description from the website you bought the items from.

cleopatra4485

Thanks for bringing it up, I wasn't sure. If it is just an item with a white background, I would personally take the risk (others could re-create in photoshop etc) I wouldn't use an image with a model.

moneymakestheworldgoround

Great tips, but cant remember people saying steer clear of selling baby clothes?? In fact many of the people signed up to the challenge are selling baby and adult clothes

cleopatra4485

moneymakestheworldgoround wrote: »

Great tips, but cant remember people saying steer clear of selling baby clothes?? In fact many of the people signed up to the challenge are selling baby and adult clothes

Many thanks for making me trying to find a needle in a hay stack, but I stepped up to the challenge :rotfl:

It was by the creator of the challenge in post #35

Try and steer clear of childrens clothes / toys and videos

I agree totally with everything he/she has to say and has given people a real chance to succeed with their positive energy and posts, but I had to disagree with that one particular comment.

completelybroke

I think if I was buying 2nd hand baby clothes I would rather see a photo of it in it's current sellable state rather than the photo of the item as new

Al1x

completelybroke wrote: »

I think if I was buying 2nd hand baby clothes I would rather see a photo of it in it's current sellable state rather than the photo of the item as new

I look for home taken photos as well.

cleopatra4485

I wouldn't sell any items that didn't look 'good as new' which was what I stated in my description and why I have 100% positive reviews.

I based my tips on what I had done and worked best for me (I spent a good couple of hours the first time around fannying around with photos, which didn't sell)

Quality of photos of does make a massive difference in selling products, subconsciously the better the photo, we think the better quality of the product. Maybe what I am getting at is you spend a great deal of effort on your photo, possibly editing each photo in photoshop (e.g cutting the product out and making the background pure white) I personally cant be bothered. In a competitive market, your listing will stand out in the crowd.

At the end of the day actions speak louder than words, people could say they are looking out for normal photos, but that obviously didn't work for me

Hologram_2

I know spending more money is not your intention but I run a shop on eBay and I bought professional white photography lights. They didn't cost much but make ALL the difference to the auction listing. They've paid for themselves 20 times over...

Good luck

LaLaLady

I thought I'd de-junk and stick some baby bits on E bay but i've haven't had much lucky a Pumpkin patch winter coat starting price 99p plus £2.50 didn't get any bidders and is unsold

Then an expensive baby london vest rrp 15.00 has sold for 99p plus 99p postage think i'll make 70p after fees. and its taken my ages to do listings its seems a lot of hassle.

cleopatra4485

LaLaLady wrote: »

I thought I'd de-junk and stick some baby bits on E bay but i've haven't had much lucky a Pumpkin patch winter coat starting price 99p plus £2.50 didn't get any bidders and is unsold

Then an expensive baby london vest rrp 15.00 has sold for 99p plus 99p postage think i'll make 70p after fees. and its taken my ages to do listings its seems a lot of hassle.

I personally wouldn't list baby clothes for auction. what photo's did you use? I managed to sell used rrp 15.00 newborn outfits for between 3.99 and 5.99, which I was happy with (nice little bit of pocket money ) She has just grown out of her 0-3 months now, so plenty of stuff again for me to sell.

Hologram - thanks for the idea, will have a look around, I plan on buying and selling anyway soon and would be handy