Pricing for second hand clothes at school fair

Alleycat

Hi all,

Not sure if this is exactly the right board but hope you can help. We've got our primary school summer fair on Sunday and I am again running the second hand clothes stall. Last time at the easter fair we weren't very organised and did not have a solid price structure so I want to get one organised for this time to make things clearer and easier for the volunteers.

We will be selling a whole range of adult and childrens clothes all in very good condition. There will likely be some quite expensive items of clothing there as well as there were a few designer bits donated for the easter fair. We are in a fairly affluent area though of course there are still a good number of families on low incomes.

What sort of prices would you find acceptable at this sort of event, baring in mind that all profits will be going directly to help fund school requests (i.e. birthday books, school trips etc)?

Baby clothes
Kids tops
Kids bottoms
Kids dresses
Kids shoes
Kids coats
Adult tops
Adult bottoms
Adult dresses
Adult shoes
Adult coats
Accessories i.e. handbags, hats

Thanks to anyone able to take the time to comment.

Alleycat x


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bravobeastie

Baby clothes - 25-50p
Kids tops - 50-75p
Kids bottoms- 50-75p
Kids dresses- 50-75p
Kids shoes - £1
Kids coats - £1-£1.50
Adult tops - £1
Adult bottoms- £1
Adult dresses- £1
Adult shoes- £1
Adult coats- £2-£3
Accessories i.e. handbags, hats - £1.50

The above is just my opinion and what I have seen clothes selling for at these kinds of fayres. They are also prices I would be quite happy to pay as long as the clothes are in good condition

HTH

karenb33

I think the above is pretty cheap and would be expecting to pay quite a bit more for nice quality stuff is good condition. To be honest I would add £1 to all of the above and still think it is cheap compared to Charity Shop prices.

bravobeastie

Maybe so but this is a school fayre and depending on the area, the sellers may bring quite a bit of that back with them.

But as I said, those prices were just my opinion.

JimmyTheWig

When I do car boot sales with the children's used clothes I generally say £1 an item if it's Next, Gap, M&S etc or 50p an item for supermarket stuff, Primark, Matalan, etc. Then I also offer a carrier bag full for a fiver.

I would have thought a school fair should be similarly priced to a car boot sale.

It depends on how much stuff you've got and what you want to do with what's left at the end. My prices, above, are based on having quite a lot of stuff and wanting to get rid of it in bulk.

toddles*

you could pick out the really expensive designer stuff and price that seperatley then with all the other stuff you could do EVERYTHING £1 and 4 items for £3. Makes it really easy then. And if the designer stuff isnt selling towards the end just pop it on the £1 tables.

Alleycat

Thanks for the replies so far. We've been quite brutal with the donations and anything that is not in good condition is being put into the bag2school collection next week. I think we would like to pitch our prices a little above carboot sales but definitely below the high prices charged by charity shops these days. Anything that it obviously designer or very high quality I think should be marked accordingly but for the general items, I agree that we don't want to price too high.

I've not yet seen what clothing has been sorted as I've been at work this week but am going in tomorrow morning to do the final sort and pricing so anymore suggestions would be gratefully accepted as it's really helpful to get a good range of opinions.

Thanks!

misfire

Our school PTA found people did not want to be seen buying second hand at school (uniform or non uniform clothes). I find people if people will buy second hand clothes they will only pay peanuts for them which is why baby and childrens clothes are so cheap at car boot sales - we gave up trying to sell clothes at our fayres.

Another local school had uniform and clothes out with a donation pot (chained down!)

Just our experience - maybe specific to our school though

Alleycat

Fortunately, many of our parents don't mind buying second hand and are very proud of their bargain hunting abilities! There are still some though that would never consider it. Me, I love a bargain and enjoy getting good quality second hand clothes for myself and the kids.

We did pretty well at the easter fair, raising £150 for just a couple of hours work and I think our prices were quite low too. At previous fairs, they've had rather half hearted second hand clothes stalls but this time I am trying to make it more organised and with better and more things to sell.

We've got two or three clothes rails and a large table, so I was thinking dresses, coats and really nice stuff on there and then t shirts, trousers, jumpers on the table? Not sure how to display the baby bits though? Maybe on a rail as well, what do people think?

Also, we've got individual pricetags which I thought to put on the bits hanging up and a sign on the front of the stall displaying the prices for the bits on the table i.e. all kids t shirts 50p-£1 etc?

JimmyTheWig

misfire wrote: »

Another local school had uniform and clothes out with a donation pot

I like this idea. Often people will pay more (especially to a worthy cause) voluntarily than they would pay when asked.

Brand the stand as recycling and you might be on to a winner.

Alleycat

OK, this is the price list I've come up with, what do people think?

Baby/Toddler
All items 50p-£1


Children
T Shirts 50p-£1
Jumpers/cardigans £1-£1.50
Trousers £1.50
Shorts 50p
Skirts £1
Shoes £1.50


Adults
Tops £1.50
Trousers/skirts £2-£3
Shoes £2


Accessories
Belts, scarves, ties etc 50p


*Items on rails individually priced*