Once upon a child - selling baby clothes

In my experience, NOT. They offered me literally pennies on the dollar for nearly new, perfect condition, brand name clothing, some of which had only been washed once and never worn! I had a brand new, still in the package name brand baby sling that cost $50 new, they offered me $6. $6!!! Seriously?

I get it that they have overhead to pay, etc. and that they need to make a profit. But honestly, if I wanted to get .50 for something I paid $10-12 dollars for new, I would just have a garage sale or donate it. I have pretty regularly sold off most of my kid's outgrown clothes, gear and toys at our local kid's consignment sales and have done very, very well with that. I've gotten way more money for those items than I ever would have gotten taking it to the retail consignment stores, and it's way less hassle than posting it on Craigslist or Facebook.

I've had the same experience. I buy nice clothes and keep them in pristine condition. They offered 25-50 cents for like new Ralph Lauren polos that they were selling for $7-8. I've sold quite a bit at local church consignment sales and done very well. The rule of thumb for those sales is 25% of retail if they are in very good condition. 

I've done better selling in lots on Facebook. Maybe your once upon a child is better, but I usually end up leaving OUAC very frustrated. Last time I ended up refusing the money because I felt that they were trying to cheat me. When I picked up the stuff, they offered me $14. I had two huge totes of clothing that was in great shape and I had some brand new Gymboree sweaters in there. I asked to see what they were buying and they showed me the receipt that said everything they bought was t-shirts in average condition. I got to the car and looked through the boxes and the nice things were gone (they were not average condition t-shirts). I went back in and said I wanted my items back and explained why. They have also recently raised their prices but lowered the amount that they payout. So for the "average" t-shirts it would have been about $.50 to $.75. I can sell for much more on the Facebook groups.

The one I've sold through is Munchkin Markets and they also now offer VIP tagging. Personally, I'd rather price and tag the stuff myself because I know what I paid for it. The sales come up twice a year, and it's easy enough to just pull and hang the stuff when I'm doing laundry and noticing it no longer fits. I hang it all sorted by size in our guest room closet (which even our guests never use), and when I get the email saying that registration for the upcoming sales is open, I go online and can whip through the online tagging process over a couple of afternoons. Once it's tagged, anything not sold can be transferred to the next sale without retagging. Once all the sales for that season are over, I can decide to either sell the rest myself at a garage sale, give it to someone I know, donate it and take the tax deduction or hang onto it until the next round of sales.

I choose to spend a couple afternoons volunteering at the sales so I will make more $$ but that is totally optional. Since I also shop these sales, it's worth my while to volunteer because then I'm also able to get first dibs on the bigger stuff my kid needs that other people are selling. All in all, it's much less hassle than having a garage sale or dealing with individuals and flakers on Craigslist or FB and I end up getting much more of the actual value for what I have to sell. It has absolutely been well worth my time and effort over the years.

I took a large amount of girls stuff (size 3, 4, 5) to Once Upon a Child and they accepted about 3 things. I was told that they only take items that are a year old. They can tell by looking at the code on the tag. I had no idea they could tell when an item was made by the tag. Everything was Gymboree or Baby Gap and in excellent condition (absolutely no stains, holes, wear, etc). I was ticked because nowhere do they inform you that they only take items one year old or less. My stuff was probably 2-3 years old. Your Once Upon a Child might certainly be different but ask questions before you take the time to box things up and drive over there. Also, there was about an hour wait to find out what they would buy. An hour of my life I'll never get back. 

In my experience it's just not worth the hassle to sell. I call the Vietnam Vets and donate to them.

You could still sell on FB, but sell the clothes in lots by size. I feel like people buy more that way. And you don't have to deal with as many people.

I had much better luck with a local kids resale shop then with Once Upon a Child. When I first started getting rid of baby clothes, I would take them to Once Upon a Child and then the local shop. The local shop had much nicer employees working there, and they always took a lot more than once Upon a Child. I think I only tried Once Upon a Child maybe three times, and then I just started taking it all to the local place.

It also depends upon what your goal is. When I was getting rid of clothes, I was done with them and didn't want them. I took things to the local consignment shop, and whenever they didn't take went straight to donation. It would have been nice to be able to sell things for more money, but at the time I didn't have the time or the energy to devote to taking pictures, listing, and trying to meet people. If it's worth it for you, you could make more money listing them. But if you just want them out of your house, then donate. :-)

Ours was also super picky and didn't give you much at all, even for clothing that still had the original tags. They were selective about how old the clothes were, as someone else mentioned, and my store also only accepted things in season. It wasn't worth it at all for me. There was another consignment place that was also picky, but at least gave you something somewhat decent for your stuff, so I took the name brands there. Things like t-shirts from Target I just donated and took the writeoff.

I used them exactly once. Had an entire Rubbermaid of mostly mid to upper name brand toddler clothes that looked brand new (none had ever even been put in a dryer.)

They went through and picked 10 pieces, including two that were Target brand and gave me all of $7.50. I should have told them to stick it, but didn't. (This was a few years before Facebook.)

Now with all of the local sales groups on Facebook, those clothes sell foe much more.