The Community Exchange Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of community life through the redistribution of useful resources that are no longer needed by their owners.
WE DO NOT PUT OUT STAINED OR DIRTY ITEMS (CLOTHING, BABY GEAR, TOYS, ETC.) ON OUR SALES FLOOR. NEW CONSIGNORS: THAT MEANS ITEMS MUST BE IN LIKE-NEW CONDITION.
HOW TO CONSIGN WITH THE KIDS’ EXCHANGE
REGISTER online. Don't wait - consignor spots are limited and fill quickly. We'll issue you a consignor number that goes on your price tags.
WAIT LIST Call or email us to get on the wait list once all consignor spots are full. Spots become available in the week prior to the sale date.
KEEP 70% of the price of the items you sell. (Tagging Service clients keep 50%.) The remainder goes to the Community Exchange Foundation (see our COMMUNITY link to the right for more information.) A $5.00 registration fee will be deducted from your sale proceeds to help offset the sale's costs, including advertising and insurance.
CHOOSE a time online to drop-off your items at The Adirondack Sports Complex (The Dome). Drop-off is on two days:
Thursday May 3, 2012 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday May 4, 2012 11:30a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
DECIDE if you want to price & tag your items yourself or use our Tagging Service (we do it for you!) instead. Read the “Pricing & Tagging” webpage for detailed information. Spots are limited.
REDUCE Decide whether to reduce your item to half price. PLEASE REDUCE!!! Most items that don't sell were NOT reduced.
DONATE Decide if you want your unsold items to be donated to charity (North Country Ministry) at the end of the sale. PLEASE DONATE!! North Country Ministry needs your items! This is a central part of the Kids' Exchange program, and we hope our consignors will donate most of their unsold merchandise.
PREPARE your items for sale. Read the “Preparing Your Items” and "What You Can Sell" webpages carefully. The Kids' Exchange reserves the right to remove items from the sales floor that do not meet our standards.
TAG your items. Read the “Pricing & Tagging” webpage carefully.
GET hangers. Use your own clear or white plastic hangers (including store give-away types like Carter’s, Osh Kosh, Old Navy, Bon Ton) or use ours. WE DO NOT ACCEPT WIRE HANGERS OR COLORED HANGERS. We will have hangers available for consignors at drop-off or earlier at another location. Hangers are first-come first-serve. “The Pricing & Tagging” page lists our available hanger types by size. Consignors can take home some hangers at 5:00 on the date of the sale for the Fall event.
DROP OFF your sale-ready items at The Dome at your selected time.
PICK UP your unsold items that you don’t want donated to charity at 5:00 p.m. on the day of the sale at The Dome. Unclaimed items are donated to charity and removed from The Dome at 5:30 p.m.
PICK UP your check and sold tags on Friday, May 11, 2012 at the Dome between 6 and 8 p.m. Can’t pick up your check? We will mail it to you on Saturday, May 12, 2012 but you will not receive back your sold tags.
