Does anyone know if those corporate consignment stores purchase items that you bring them in the same manner as thrift stores? There is a chain of consignment stores in my region called "Dirt Cheap". Anyone have success going this route?
I know the major stores, like Goodwill and the like get most of their stuff for free like CopiaVita just mentioned. Now as far as the local thrift stores, or second hand stores rather (there is a difference in the two) They can offer you a consignement which I have yet done, also they can buy it from you, AT THEIR FAIR PRICE, cause they have to make money too. I understood this when I sold some furniture to another auction bidder that had her own store. I sold them a solid wood coffee table (use to be an entertainment center but was broken so I modified it) and a living room table set of two, solid wood, but was not really solid. Anyway I sold all of it to her for $150. Which I was happy with, was only $10 below what I was listing the price for, just had not sold it off after 3 weeks. I went to her store a few days later, and saw she had listed the living room table set for $65, and the coffee table itself for $170. Pretty sure she sold the coffee table rather quickly, since it did look nice after I modified it.
So if loosing that much money would bother you, I would not sell to a store, go for the general public itself. It did not bother me cause I knew she had to make money off of it as well, since she was only buying to resell it. So I got paid and cleared out some inventory.