Someone asked if the return is worth the time involved even if you don't have a lot to consign. My opinion is yes. Most of my TotSwap friends don't consign the number of items I do, but they are all pleased with their payment at the end. :-)
It is really easy to do the "process" to enter the items, print the tags, cut them out, and put them on your things. You will be amazed at how quickly your item count will go up!
You get a 50/50 split if you volunteer 1 shift or not at all but your split increases if you volunteer for 2 shifts so it is worth it to do the two shifts to increase your return. And, of course don't forget that you will then be one of the first folks through the door to shop on Thursday night! :-)
So let's say you end up getting 200 items into the system and dropped off at the sale. Let's say that everything you have consigned is Gymboree outfits and you've priced them all at $8 an outfit (a very reasonable price for an outfit, and likely to sell). If you were to sell everything, and volunteer for 1 shift, then you would take home $800. Even if you only sold 1/2 of your items, you would take home $400. All this for one evening in front of the computer entering items and one or two evenings tagging your items. I don't think that is a bad investment of time, do you?
So yes, in my opinion, even if I weren't going to have 1000+ items, it would still be worth my time to enter things if they are in good shape and likely to sell.
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do they have lots of things for multiples? clothing wise?
In response to the question about things for multiples...
I can tell you that I've met several moms of multiples at the sales who consign with TotSwap but whether that measures out to what you have in mind, I can't say. There are sometimes matching outfits (particularly in infant sizes) and there are definitely double strollers (I even saw a triple one time) but I would really have to know more of what you mean by "things for multiples." There are LOTS of things at the sales so there would certainly be enough to outfit a house that had even higher order multiples :-) I hope that helps! If not, give me some specifics and I can let you know.
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