What to Sell & How to Price
Rule #1: Tags MUST be printed or written on card stock paper!! This is essential to ensure that tags do not become separated from items. Some consignors laminate tags or use hole protector stickers to ensure tags are secure. If you do not have cardstock, you may pick up tags from our store.
Rule #2: Items that lose their tags will not be sold. (Without tags we do not know how much the seller is asking for the item, or even who the seller is to pay or return the item to). Make sure that each tag is secured well to each item. There are dozens of good ways to secure tags to items including packing tape, safety pins, yarn, string & more. Be creative.
Rule #3: Make sure each tag has your consignor number written down in the designated area. We cannot sell items without consignor numbers.
Rule #4: Sunday is 1/2 Price Day. Consignors may select on each item tag if it is available for half price on Sunday of the sale by clearly marking a Y (for yes), a check mark or a star in the designated area. Items with the 1/2 price section left blank will be sold for full price on Sunday.
Rule #5: Please use whole numbers. For example, price your item at $2 and not $1.50.
Pro Tip: You can easily hand make your own tags using 3x5 notecards. Just make sure to use the same format as our printable tags.
The commission is off the total items sold. It is 30% for payment by check, or 15% for payment by store credit.
This consignor printed their tags on regular printer paper and glued them to 3x5 notecards. This worked great!
Choosing what to sell
Over the years we have become more selective about what items we accept into our sale. Any items that are not in usable condition will not be accepted. To determine an item’s sellability ask yourself these 2 questions:
Is the item in at least good conditon? This means: does the item have holes, stains or tears and does the item have all it’s parts & pieces in working condition? If you answered yes to any of the flaws, your item may not be sellable, even for bottom dollar.
Would you buy the item? This means: Some items are too outdated to sell and have no value, even if they are in good condition. See below for a list of items that are difficult to sell:
How to Price Items
By and large, used items depreciate by half of their original value, even if in very good condition (this does not apply to saddles). Also, keep in mind that people are looking for deals at FHUTS- your brand new Rambo blanket will not sell if you only mark it down $50. To determine price ask yourself these 4 simple questions:
How much did you originally pay? If it is used it is worth half or less than half of it’s original value.
Does it have any minor scuffs, etc that will lower the value? Even minor damage lowers the value.
How badly do you want the item gone? Price it lower if you just want it out of your life.
Would you pay the price you are asking for the item in the condition it is in? If you wouldn’t pay for it, no one else will either.
Additional Rules:
All big items must be sold individually. For example, please do not try to sell a saddle with a saddle pad or with a girth. It is too difficult to keep the saddle pad or girth with the saddle and the items easily become separated. We are not responsible for ensuring your items stay together, so please just don’t try to sell items in bulk.
Small items that fit together inside gallon or quart size Ziplock bags may be sold together in bulk. Please ensure your tag is either taped to the outside of the Ziplock OR securely tied to the items inside the Ziplock.
All metal items like bits, stirrups and spurs must be packaged in Ziplock bags. Each year these items lose their tags too easily in the bins we put them in and then we can’t sell them.
All clothing items must be brought on hangers! We can provide hangers, but you must hang your items on the hangers at time of drop off. *Consignors who do not bring their clothing on hangers will be charged $25 fee from their total of sold items.
Items that are impossible to sell (and belong in the trash)
Tall boots without zippers, even your mint condition 25 year old Dehners.
Rat catcher style show shirts (the kind with two collars). Especially the kind with patterns. If you have these, throw them away or dump them in clothing donation bins, unless they are high end name brands that breed show people like.
Old English saddles with flat flaps. These haven’t been made since 1980s and have no place on the backs of today’s horses.
English saddles with no name brand made of pleather.
Saddles with broken trees. It is not worth the risk that some idiot will try to use it to ride a horse.
*If you are unsure if your saddle is acceptable for our sale, please text pictures to 913.239.9947 for evaluation. Also go to www.fhuts.com/acceptable-saddles
Khaki or green beige breeches. It is a terrible color! Even worse if they are made of non-stretch poly in the style of women’s old fashioned bloomers.
English bridles without padding, unless high quality leather. We always get a lot of these and they just are not popular now.
Nylon halters & lead ropes that have gotten stiff.
Please study the images on the left for examples of items NOT to bring. These are items that were actually brought to one of our sales to be sold- but they all belong in the trash!
We reserve the right to exclude any item from our sale based on lack of salability.
The girth’s elastic is incredibly stretched out and it was quite brittle, making this girth beyond safe to use.
The saddle must be 50(!) years old. The leather was so fragile I could have ripped the flap clean off. They don’t even make panels like that anymore. This saddle has no place on the back of today’s horses!
The rubber reins are melted. No one wants melted rubber reins!
ALL OF THESE ITEMS BELONG IN THE TRASH!
See below for a list of items that are hard to sell: