Help. Yard Sale Pricing of Baby Items?

[crazymomof4]

I'm having a yard sale tomorrow (I know, 6 days before we leave, I'm nuts!) Hoping to raise a little extra cash for the trip. I'm stumped on pricing a few nicer baby items that I will be selling. Where would you put the asking price for these:

-Like new, Century Smart Fit infant carseat. Sells in stores for $60. Perfect working order. 3 yrs old, but only used for 11 months.
-Good condition, Century baby walker. Nothing broken, faded or torn. Has detachable over-head hanging toy thingy.

 

[wuv tigger]

sold the same car seat last year for $5 @ our MOPS {Mothers of Preschoolers} sale (found out later I could have sold it for $15)

put $20.00 on it & plan to negotiate

not sure of the price of the walker

 

[Melissa R]

Good luck! I have barely used infant car seat that's only a year old that I've tried to sell two weekends in a row. It was $70 or $75 in the store just over a year ago...I asked $15 and got LAUGHED at. (More than once....it really ticked me off!!!)

I hope your sale goes well. I also took my yard sale money with me to WDW. It was only about $100, but all I sold was junk and old clothes that I would have donated somewhere, so I felt like it was well worth the time spent sitting in the yard.

Good luck!

 

[jacksonsmom]

I had an infant car seat similar to yours & I sold mine for $20 or $25 last year. I can not remember which one but I KNOW it was NOT any less then $20.00.

About the walker, it is one of those stay put walkers? If so those are not cheap in the stores now days. I too sold one of those stationary walkers in the same garage sale as I sold the car seat & I sold the walker for $25.00.
If it is an actual walker then I would only put about $15 on it, since parents I think are buying them less and less.

Good luck with your sale. We used all of the money we got from our sale last year & took it to Disney this pass June. We got $1800.00 from a 2 day sale, I sold alot of baby items, which really helped.

 

[crazymomof4]

Wow! $25!!! If I got that I'd be jumping up and down (after the buyer drove off, of course )

Maybe I'll set it at $20 and come down to $15 after the first 2 hours of the sale. Knowing how much they are in the stores, I'd pay $15, even $20 for a like new carseat.

Am I the only sentimental fool here or do any of you also get melancholoy when selling your baby things? I look at that carseat and remember how excited I was when I first got it, knowing my DD would be coming home from the hospital in it!

 

[jacksonsmom]

Originally posted by crazymomof4


Am I the only sentimental fool here or do any of you also get melancholoy when selling your baby things? I look at that carseat and remember how excited I was when I first got it, knowing my DD would be coming home from the hospital in it!

Nope, me too I am a sentimental fool. I went through all my son's newborn clothes. I had 4 storage bin FULL of just 0-24 months. I am down to 2 storage bins full of newborn clothes, I just could not part with some of his clothes...not yet, anyway.

I still have his crib too...I don't think I could ever sell that, at least until I was 100% sure I am not going to have any more children. Then I will probably cry like a baby when I sell that crib.

Good Luck at your sale.
Let us know how it goes.
I think it is a smart idea putting $20 on the car seat & be willing to go down to $15.00

 

[4greatboys]

I know your trip is just a few days away but for some higher dollar items you might want to consider e-bay next time.Lots of times you get what you want for the item. At garage sales--or atleast in my area--people really want the stuff for almost free. Last time we sold some very nice shirts for $1 and a jersey for $1.50 and the ladies we whining about us wanting so much money
In the store they would have paid $20 to $25 for those items. They were still in very good condition and the jersey looked like it hadnt even been worn.
Good Luck Crazymomof4--see you at disney!!

 

[lovesdumbo]

If they still sell the items perhaps it would help to print off a photo and price from an online seller like babiesrus.

 

[crazymomof4]

Well, hardly any of my baby items sold! Is someone trying to tell me something??? Not even any offers on the carseat and walker!

I am planning on selling on e-bay after the trip. I opened up a seperate checking account already for this purpose. So I didn't even put out some items bc. I know they'll sell on e-bay for much more than I'd ever get at a yard sale. Some times I think people put a $5 bill in their pocket in the morning and try to stretch that over 5-6 yard sales. I had one woman looking over a mesh sunscreen w/ suction cups for the car window. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. I had $1 on it and she asked if I'd take 75 cents! I said no and she looked it over some more and then left. They act like they're doing YOU a favor by buying your things! I always say, "If it doesn't sell this year, it will next year." So they know I'm not desperate to sell.

All told, we made $110 profit (after subtracting our expenses). We found that the real money maker was the snacks we sold--hot dogs, soda, bottled water, coffee, brownies and homemade choc chip cookies.
We'll take that $$$ to Disney plus I have a quart-size container full of change that we've collected since March (the last loose change cash in) I'll take that to Commerce tomorrow and add it to the yardsale $$.....a bit extra never hurts just days before you leave!!

Thanks for all the well wishes and to those who will be down there the same time as us: I really hope to meet some of you!

 

[jacksonsmom]

Sorry almost none of your baby items sold. Baby items are HOT in my town, I think because it is a very young family type of town.

I think Ebay is a great way to go. I sell on Ebay also & you can really make some good money on there.

GOOD LUCK & have a great trip

 

[4greatboys]

jacksonsmom--baby items are hot in our area too but the buyers are to cheap. The item can be almost brand new and if you want more than a dollar are so they dont buy it.

 

[NotUrsula]

Part of the problem may be WHAT the items were.

Most safety experts recommend never buying a used carseat, because you don't have a guarantee that is has never been in an accident. (Also, the carseat mfrs. are now saying that seats that are 5 yrs. old should be destroyed. Personally, I think that is a ploy on their parts to try to sell more seats and to avoid extensive liability for design failure, but it might explain why you had no takers on a used seat.)

Walkers are an issue b/c a lot of children have managed to scoot them to the top of a set of steps and topple down head first. There are quite a few efforts underway to ban sit-in walkers altogether.

 

[crazymomof4]

Originally posted by NotUrsula
Part of the problem may be WHAT the items were.

Most safety experts recommend never buying a used carseat, because you don't have a guarantee that is has never been in an accident. (Also, the carseat mfrs. are now saying that seats that are 5 yrs. old should be destroyed. Personally, I think that is a ploy on their parts to try to sell more seats and to avoid extensive liability for design failure, but it might explain why you had no takers on a used seat.)

Walkers are an issue b/c a lot of children have managed to scoot them to the top of a set of steps and topple down head first. There are quite a few efforts underway to ban sit-in walkers altogether.

Funny that you should post this. My neighbor wants to buy the carseat. She has a 2 week old. She is an EMT and is cerified as a carseat safety inspector. She mentioned the "never buying a used carseat" thing but, like she said, "I know you, I know that you've never been in an accident, I know you've taken care of it, and it's actually newer & has been used less than the one the baby is in now". (She is using the one she had from her 4 yo son.)

As to the walker issue: it's tragic that some babies have been hurt in accidents, but before it became an issue in the child safety arena I put my (now 14 yo) son in one. I noticed that the walker would have easily rolled down our inside stairway to the basement so I had my DH install a tight spring on the door which made it self-closing. A little common sense and forethought can often prevent many accidents! Funny thing-- everytime we took that spring off bc the baby was older, I ended up getting pregnant again! DD is almost 3 and I will not let DH take that spring off!!!