Should you Discount & Donate? Yes please!
Seriously, you should do this!
Marking many (or all!) of your items to discount on our half-off day is a no brainer!
Marking many (or all!) of your items to discount on our half-off day is a no brainer!
Discount?
The half-off sale is a wonderful marketing opportunity for all of our consignors. It is out of your house! Let us get it sold for you! The idea of half-off is NOT for you to price up your items and then sell them all at half-off. The Half-off sale is a promotion to get shoppers in the door! (And it has the super happy added benefit of getting more of your stuff sold and of us having fewer items to sort!) Shoppers are excited about the idea that they can save big! And . . .they buy tons of full-price stuff on half off day too. Items that DO get donated, are first and foremost, OUT OF YOUR HOUSE, and they are helping so many families.
There is some psychology in this too. Many shoppers don’t care about the actual price of the item they care that it says “Discount Yes” on the tag. They feel like they are winning because they are getting the discount. Interestingly, shoppers who shop the presales at full-price also like to buy the things marked “Discount Yes”. They feel like they are winning because they snatch it up first because they know it will be gone on discount day.
Our job as a sale is to make sure that YOU, the consignor, sell as many items as possible, for as much profit as possible . . .right? The way to do that is to price your items to sell well at FULL price, but mark as many items as possible-especially the ones that you really don't want back, to discount and donate. It's out of your house! (We mentioned that, right?!) Sell those last few items at a discount and then let us donate the rest to great charities where they can do soooo much good!
New consignors are sometimes afraid to mark things to discount and to donate. They tend to address that fear by either
There is some psychology in this too. Many shoppers don’t care about the actual price of the item they care that it says “Discount Yes” on the tag. They feel like they are winning because they are getting the discount. Interestingly, shoppers who shop the presales at full-price also like to buy the things marked “Discount Yes”. They feel like they are winning because they snatch it up first because they know it will be gone on discount day.
Our job as a sale is to make sure that YOU, the consignor, sell as many items as possible, for as much profit as possible . . .right? The way to do that is to price your items to sell well at FULL price, but mark as many items as possible-especially the ones that you really don't want back, to discount and donate. It's out of your house! (We mentioned that, right?!) Sell those last few items at a discount and then let us donate the rest to great charities where they can do soooo much good!
New consignors are sometimes afraid to mark things to discount and to donate. They tend to address that fear by either
- Marking their items to discount and then raising the price of the item so high that it won't sell until half-off OR
- Don't mark anything to discount/donate at all.
BY FAR, the better option is to - Mark every item that you are fine with never seeing again to both discount and donate. Price the items well to sell at full price—most will! If you do have a few items that you want to pick-up you can of course mark them to discount but not to donate.
Donate?
Our happiest sellers by far are the ones who choose to donate everything and never come to pick-up!Want to know why?
- They get ALL that stuff out of their house. It’s gone. They never have to see it again!
- They shop before other consignors whose unsold/didn’t make any $ items require some sorting and a return trip for pick-up
- They feel GREAT about helping others with their donations!
- They save time and steps because they only have to come to the venue for drop-off and shopping
- They nearly always sell more and make more because if their items are marked to donate, they are automatically marked to discount too and shoppers love that
- They are provided with a tax ID # to write off their donations.
- They make more money!