How To Be A Successful JBF Consignor

Be selective with the items you consign – only bring your best. We inspect items to benefit you and all of our shoppers...we have a reputation of offering the best and we want to keep that standard high at all of our events. Take good care of your things and you’ll be able to sell them to someone else at a great price for both of you!

Try to bring at least one “big ticket” item. Items that always sell are pack-n-plays, cribs, exersaucers, and large Little Tikes toys. Obviously, the larger the item, the larger your check.

Try Mommy Mart, Crafter’s Corner, and the JBF Re-Gifting Center. JBF is a great way to sell nice household furniture, crafting supplies and new/like new gift items. Look around, clean out your drawers/closets and turn some of those “thoughtful gifts” into Cash!

Don’t forget to clean out your child’s bookshelves and movie drawers. Children’s books and videos (CD’s and DVD’s) are especially hot sellers. Games and Puzzles are also very popular. Other popular sellers are gymnastics/dance attire, uniforms, sports equipment, and bikes.

Price to Sell. Look over your items and consider the pricing. Look at our Price Guidelines on our website to help with pricing your items. If it’s a good deal, people will buy it!

Participate in our discount sale days, especially clothing and small toys. At the end of the sale, shoppers are only looking for items without a star. You might want to raise your original price a little and let it go for half price. That way, if it sells for full price, it will be more than you expected. Also, if you donate an item, make sure to include it in the discount sales!!!

Be descriptive on your barcode tags. Not only does this help the shoppers, but it also helps us match up tags that get separated from their items. We do everything we can to sell your items for you! It we will look items up in the system and search the sales floor for items missing tags.

Re-Print Barcode Tags...YOU CANNOT manually change them. If you change your barcode tags after they have been printed, you could mess up your check amount. If you want to change something (donate, reduce for discount days, reduce the price, etc.) do it through the website as well and be sure to reprint  a new tag BEFORE drop off.

Prep and tag as you go. Preparing for a sale is easier when you prep your items as your children outgrown them and tag them a little bit at a time. Set aside an area in your home to put hanging clothes and a bin or two for other items you will be surprised at how little time it takes to get ready for drop-off.

Pick up items to resell at clearance and garage sales. There are many JBF consignors nationwide who make $5,000-$10,000 per sale by purchasing new/like new items at a significantly reduced price and then consign the items at JBF. A bargain is a bargain...and this is a great way to make some extra spending money without investing a great deal of time for family funds.

Promote every JBF event within your circle of friends and family. The more consignors we have, the more you have to shop from. The more there is to shop from, the more shoppers will come and buy YOUR items. Pick-up JBF postcards and hand them out, post JBF Event posters closer to the sale, offer to put up a yard sign before/during the sale, and make sure that you share JBF at day-cares, church, work, mom’s groups, school...you get the picture. Everyone wins as Just Between Friends grows and reaches out to others in the community!