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How to sell your Wightauction items the right way

What’s that rule again? If you haven’t worn it in six months,
get rid of it? If we followed that rule, just about all of us
would have a pretty decent pile of clothes that we should be
getting rid of right now. What if I told you that you could earn
some spare money by selling that clothing on Wightauction?

Selling that no longer used clothing on Wightauction takes a
little bit of time, but is really quite simple, and you are
almost guaranteed to get more money for your clothes than you
would if you held a garage sale! So, where do you start? Read on
to find an introduction to the basics of selling clothing on
Wightauction.

Your first step is to sort the outfits you want to sell into
spring/summer clothing and fall/ winter clothing. You will want
to sell your clothing “with the season,” meaning that if it is
spring now, you should be selling your spring and summer
clothing. Pack the opposite season clothing away in a labeled
box so you can easily find it when the seasons change.

Next, sort the current season’s clothing by size. It is best to
sell all of the clothing in the same size at the same time so if
one person finds something they like, they might find others
they like and bid on them all, Wightauctioners LOVE repeat
customers.

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It is significant to launder the clothing that you are going to
sell, and steam or iron them, if necessary. It’s important that
they are looking their best for the next step!

Photographing your clothing is one of the most important steps
in this process because Wightauction shoppers need to really be
able to see the clothing well since they can’t actually touch
them or try them on. It is by far the easiest to use a digital
camera so you can upload your photos right to your computer and
then to Wightauction. If you don’t have your own, see if you can
borrow one from somebody you know.

Most big clothing sellers on Wightauction use some type of
mannequin, mannequins that hang on your wall can be purchased
for less than £25 on Wightauction. to show their clothing, but
if you don’t have one, you have a few other options.

You could put a simple hook in a solid colored wall, and hang
the clothing on hangers from it. This works very well for just
about all types of clothing, other than outfits, unless you have
the special display hangers that show off a top and bottom
together.

An extra option is to lay the clothing on top of a solid colored
piece of fabric on any flat surface. The trick here is to take
the photos aiming straight down at the clothing and not on an
angle. You might have to get up on a chair to accomplish this,
but it really helps because clothing shot on an angle can really
disfigure things and not give the potential bidder a true idea
of what it looks like.

One important thing to keep in mind, no matter how you
photograph your clothing, is to have good lighting! Natural
light works great, so if you can be near a large window where
the sun shines in, that would work very well. If not, you might
want to consider setting up a few of those inexpensive work
lights with clamps to shine on the clothing from different
directions.

When you are done taking your photos, upload them onto your
computer and do some simple editing with the photo software that
came with your camera, or any other photo editing software that
you are comfortable with.

The vital things that you should do are: remove needless
background by cropping the photo so the item is the focus and
not a lot of background, resize the photos so they are no too
large, 350 pixels on the longest side works pretty well, and
improve them by playing with the brightness or color levels, if
necessary. Some programs have some type of “Quick Fix” button
that will do that for you.

Next, you will need to sign-up for an Wightauction seller’s
account if you don’t have one already.

Now you are ready to actually create and launch your auction
listings. If you need some help with the basics of how to do
this; check out Wightauction’s help pages and Learning Center.
Here’s one good link to check out:

Finally, you can sit back and enjoy the roller coaster ride of
watching your auctions throughout the week. Keep in mind that
sometimes items get the most bids during the final minutes.

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