How to Tag Your Merchandise Correctly - IMPORTANT!
When affixing your tags, remember that the clearer your item is marked, the better it will sell. Tags sometimes get separated from their items—a clear description will help us match your item with your tag! We will have a bin for items without tags and a bin for lost tags. Tape/pin/fasten your tags securely on your items so that they don't come off.
Clothing
You can tag your clothing with safety pins, but the fastest way to tag clothes, especially if you have a lot of them, is with a tagging gun.
Shoes
Books/Media
Small Loose Toys
When affixing your tags, remember that the clearer your item is marked, the better it will sell. Tags sometimes get separated from their items—a clear description will help us match your item with your tag! We will have a bin for items without tags and a bin for lost tags. Tape/pin/fasten your tags securely on your items so that they don't come off.
Clothing
You can tag your clothing with safety pins, but the fastest way to tag clothes, especially if you have a lot of them, is with a tagging gun.
- Pin tag on the upper right hand corner of the item.
- Tag must be pinned with either a safety pin.
- The hanger should face left when you look at your item (like a question mark "?"—see photos).
- Staples or straight pins are NOT allowed.
- Pants should be secured to hanger with large safety pins ONLY. Do not fold pants over the hanger. They fall off easily and get dragged around on the floor.
- To avoid leaving holes in more delicate fabrics please run your barb or safety pin through the size tag inside the clothing or in a seam.
- Please do not place any clothing in Ziploc bags.
- If you are tagging clothing sets use only on barcoded tag. In terms of sets, generally people only put a tag on the item that is going to be on the top of the hanger and none on the other piece. Make sure the set cannot get separated. Please don’t use two of the barcoded tags on a set because it would make things confusing at checkout.
Shoes
- Use a plastic tie or a piece of string to secure pairs of shoes together (see photo).
- Secure your tags to your shoes using the same plastic tie.
- Use packing tape on the top of the tag to secure it to the plastic tie, but please don't tape over the barcode.
- If you have fancy shoes please put shoes in Ziploc bags but make sure the tag is attached to the shoes.
Books/Media
- Tape tag on the back of the book or on the inside back cover with masking or painters tape so that the book does not get damaged when the tag is removed. Please don’t use packing tape.
- For DVD's, and CD's, tape the tag on the back, but please do not tape them shut so that the drop off volunteers can check them to make sure the contents do not have major scratches and that the contents match the casing. After they have been checked, please assist the drop off volunteer packing tape the checked items closed.
- Do not place books in Ziploc bags. Shoppers like to look inside the books to make sure the pages are not torn or damaged
Small Loose Toys
- If you have small toys with lots of loose pieces (ex. blocks, small cars, soldiers) put them all in a Ziploc bag. Use Ziploc Brand "Big Bags" for larger pieces, if needed.
- Secure the top of the bag with packing tape.
- Tape your tag on the top of the main item, handwrite tags for the other pieces that include your consignor number, description of the item, and part __ of ___. If the parts are small, put them in a Ziploc bag and put the handwritten tag in the bag. Then, use packing tape to attach close the bag and to securely attach it to the main item.