The following list may seem crazy to you, but believe it or not an item is listed because at one time or another during our 19 plus years in business, someone has tried to consign it with us!

• Used Auto Parts (ummm.....)
• Chemicals (our insurance company would have a fit!)
• Food products (we don't have the appropriate licenses)
• Live plants and animals (we sell houseplants that we know come from pest-free greenhouses only; and no, we didn't think the Amazon parrot would 'liven up' our store!)
• Weapons (no license/no interest - we're peacable folk)
• Used safety helmets (this is actually illegal)
• Medical equipment
• Computers and/or parts (they are just not our thing)
• Remodeling cast-offs (Bob Villa's territory not ours)
• Unbolted fabric and fabric scraps (sorry to say it seems no one seems to have much time to sew because we have never had luck with it - decorator fabric on bolts or rolls however sells VERY well)
• Opened games/puzzles (no way to ensure the pieces are all there and who has time to check?)
• Free Gift' items (if it was free and YOU still don't want it no one is going to pay us money for it)
• Monogrammed/promotional items (self-explanatory)
• Major appliances (again - it's just not what we are about - not to mention the space they take up and - geesh - does the thing even work?)
• Ski, bowling, tennis and exercise equipment (strangley enough not hot sellers for us - we think a store would have to specialize in this stuff and have a lot of selection to move it!)
• Mattresses/box springs (excluding crib) -- (again it's illegal unless they are sent off to a special sanitizing facility which costs money and have a special label sewn onto them)
• 8-tracks, record albums or cassettes (we like to be more modern when it comes to our musical offerings - try selling this stuff in lots on eBay and maybe you'll have some luck)
• Old paper backs and hard cover books without dust jackets (our customers love to read and unless it's a coffee table book or a cool, unusual aold or antique book they are looking for current sellers within the last few years)
  
• Unboxed answering machines and small appliances (simply not good sellers - small appliances have become so inexpensive our customers just must prefer to buy it new than take the risk it doesn't work....and most phones these days have answering machines or voice mail built in)
  
• Needs repair or parts' items (hmmm....again maybe our customers just lack imagination or aren't handy?)
  
• MISCELLANEOUS SMALL STUFF, PALM SIZED OR SMALLER, VALUED UNDER $5 (it costs a certain amount in labor and materials; not to mention time, to process consignments. If we can't realistically expect to sell something for at least $5 it simply isn't cost effective for us to accept it)
  
• Non-antique, mismatched, odd or imcomlete sets of dishes/glasses or linen (every day china and dishes are one of our worst sellers - people either just eat out alot or inherited a couple of sets/got china as wedding gifts or....don't care to change their china very often)
  
• Used/unboxed personal care products/hot air poppers/coffee makers/mini-blinds (these rate up there somehwere between 'free gift' items and remodeling cast-offs in popularity!)
  
• Almost anything related to baby's and kid's gear like wind-up swings/booster seats/lightweight or collapsible umbrella strollers/walkers (We have several reasons for not accepting these items. The first is an insurance/liability issue. The second is the number of recalls and time it takes to research them all on the consumer product safety recall checklist - it's pages and pages long!)
  
• Sleep sofas and pianos are only accepted IF the consignor and buyer agree to move the piece onto and off the sales floor without our staff's assistance. A $300 cash deposit must be received before we will accept any piano on consignment. (We're talking some heavy stuff here... and we were stuck paying professional piano movers to move one piano out of our store years ago....and learned a valuable lesson!)

Last updated on January 26, 2008 by Cynthia