Quick Cash: Your Guide to Selling Your Clothes
By julianne, April 9, 2010, Shopping Tips
If you’re in need of some extra cash and extra room in your closet, take your clothes to the nearest Buffalo Exchange or Plato’s Closet. These aren’t your usual thrift stores where you simply donate your used clothes. Resale clothing stores such as Buffalo Exchange and Plato’s Closet pay the seller between 30% to 45% of what the item will be priced on the rack. The clothing is also better condition than what you would find at Goodwill or Salvation Army since buyers go through your clothes and select ones that are fashionable and still wearable without looking outdated.
Go through your closet and see if you can find anything that you don’t wear anymore. Buffalo Exchange and Plato’s Closet have stores in several states across the nation. They take men’s and women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories. Although you won’t be paid the original purchase price of them item, you’ll still get some money back.
Here are some tips to ensure that they will buy back most of the items in your pile:
- Wash and iron the clothes. Not only is it hygienic to wash clothes you donate, but it will also give the clothes a better appearance than selling them wrinkled and balled up in a trash bag.
- Call the store ahead to see what styles they’re currently taking in. Buffalo Exchange takes in vintage pieces as well as the what’s the latest style trend. So if sequins is what’s big in the fashion industry, they’ll accept more clothes with sequins.
- Popular brand name items are priced higher than off-brand or clothes with no labels.
- I’ve had friends who’ve worked at Buffalo Exchange and they said that they’re instructed to not take in everything a seller brings in. So if you want to sell more of your clothes, go to more than one store.
- Go on different days so you get a different buyer each day. The buyers are subjective to what they think will be able to sell. So different buyers may pick something that another buyer won’t.
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