Item Tagging
Instead of using index cards to write out your own tags, we have implemented an online system to upload the information for each item and print out bar-coded tags. Just click on the link below after registering as a Consignor to work with your inventory and print out tags.
Guidelines and Hints:
- The minimum price for any item is $2.
- As you enter your items online, you will be able to select which items will go 50% off during the half-off sales, and also which items, if unsold, you want to donate or pick-up after the sale.
- When you print out your tags, we recommend using card stock to minimize the chance that the tags will fall off once attached to your sale items.
- Also, you may want to reinforce the tag by folding a piece of packing tape over the top of the tag before punching holes for the zip ties, especially on large items or expensive items.
- All furniture will be set up for display during the sale, so prepare your items with tags on all pieces of a sale item.
Hanging items:
All clothing should be on a hanger. Use a child-sized hanger for infant and children’s items, and a standard hanger for your largest items (pre-teen sizes). The hanger MUST face left (so that facing you, it looks like a question mark). Punch a hole in the upper left-hand corner of the index card tag. Make sure it is not too close to the corner, or it may rip. Use a zip tie to attach your paper tag through the garment tag, through a button hole, strap, belt loop, or even a shirt sleeve. Your tag should as close to the right hand side of hanging items as possible.
Tag Placement Ideas
Please tug on each zip tie to make sure it is properly “zipped” so it will be secure.
(In the past, we have required safety pins to attach tags. We think you will find zip ties tremendously easier to use. They are sturdier and won’t damage clothing, and they allow us to remove tags more quickly at the checkout.)
Items with Multiple Pieces
For items such as Pack-N-Plays, which must be set up at the sale, you will need to print duplicate tags for each item in the set (in this example it would be 2 tags: one for the Pack-N-Play and the second for the case).
Larger items:
Please use a plastic zip tie to attach your tag to larger items like furniture, toys, strollers, infant swings, bikes, etc. Put the tag on the top of the item, where it will be most visible. Also, we have a loading dock, so large items can be dropped off at the sale already assembled (i.e., cribs, etc).
Toys:
Please include all small pieces in a large or small zip lock bag so that they do not get lost. Attach tag with a plastic zip tie or, if this is not possible, with clear packing tape. If you use masking tape on anything other than books, it will probably fall off and your tag will become lost. We cannot be responsible for lost tags.
Shoes:
Attach your tag to a zip tie and secure pairs of shoes with a it so they will not become separated. Please be sure that shoes are in great condition.
(When tagging, please remember that as a rule of thumb you are responsible for tagging your item so that the tag stays on your item.)
Will child size hangers be provided for us? I have a few but not nearly enough for the items I want to sell.
You provide your own child-size hangers. You can get them 10/$1 at walmart or dollar tree. You can also often get them from children’s clothing stores if you ask.
Can we use a taggun for our items instead of zipties? And when we drop off our items do we put the items up or do volenteers – and we just leave our items ?
A tag gun is fine if you have one. You will need to assemble anything large like cribs, etc. Volunteers can put up pak n plays and swings and stuff like that. You leave your items, and then of course you can pick up anything that doesn’t sell the next monday or choose to donate it to charity.
See you at the Sale!
Rachel
Items that are labeled donate, do we take it to charity or volunteers will do it?
Whatever is labeled “Donate” will be picked up at the end of the sale by select charities. Consignors that have items to donate do not need to pick the up.
Will the hangers we use be given back to us after the sale?
How should I tag books and CDs?
Is it ok to package small toys together in a clear bag?
You can absolutely package small toys together in clear bags! People also tape the tag onto the bag using packing tape.
Hi, Nancy. Consignors don’t get the hangers back because we do not collect them from the sale items.
We recommend either using masking tape to tape the tag to the book or CD (make sure that all edges of the tag is taped down) or putting them in ziploc bags and taping the tags to the bags with packing tape.
Can we still use safety pins to attach the tags to clothing? As They Grow sale uses similar tagging system and I have noticed consignors used both safety pins and zip ties.
Safety pins can damage clothing and are slower to get off making wait times for customers longer. So we switched completely to zip ties.
Do u provide zip ties? Thanks!
Hi can we put onesis in a ziplock bag as packs of 3 in each since 3 would be hard to hang together on a hanger w/ zip ties? And then tape the sale tage to it?
You can do either, but they will definitely sell better if you hang them. You can safety pin them together at the shoulders.
we don’t provide zip ties. You can find them pretty cheaply at Wal-Mart in the hardware dept., or in home improvement-type stores.
To reinforce the hole on a tag, can I use some reinforcement lables instead of a packing tape?
Also, if I want to sell motiple clothes on one hanger as one item, do I need to make a tag for each piece?
Hi..I seem to have a problem printing the tags…I printed a batch of 5 just to make sure it’s working properly, now the system won’t let me print out the rest, but instead keeps showing the 5 already printed in the print screen. Help!
Also, how do you want books and socks tagged?
Hi, Hitomi. That’s a great idea to use reinforcement labels in lieu of packing tape! Also, if there are multiple clothes on a hanger, you only need one tag.
Hi, Claudia. There are a couple things you can try. . .
1) Clear out your temporary internet files. In Internet Explorer, choose TOOLS, then INTERNET OPTIONS, then hit the DELETE FILES button. Click “Delete All Offline content” checkbox and click OK. See if that works.
2) If that doesn’t work, try a different web browser. Ex., if you use Internet Explorer, download Firefox and try that browser. Or Safari. It’s worked for me in all three!
3) If that doesn’t work, email us back!
About how to tag books or socks, you can put them in ziploc bags and tape the tag to the outside of the bag.
What is the best way to put multiple pairs of newborn pants on one hangar?
You can pin them, attaching the pins to the waistline of the pants and the “shoulders” of the clothes hangers. Then just put attach a zip tie through the belt loops of all of the pants and through the hanger, then through the tag and voila! They’re all attached to the hanger, each other, and the tag.
If there aren’t any garment tags, belt loops, or anyway to attach zip tie to clothing is it better to zip tie the tag to the hanger or attach the zip tie to a pin in the clothing?
Make sure the tag is zip-tied to the garment in some way, either through a safety pin or running it through the neck hole through the sleeve of shirts or something like that.