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Nearly New Baby Sales are Back!

WE’RE BACK!

Great news – Baby and Children’s Market Nearly New Sales are finally back!

All Indoor Markets can re-open which is great news for us along with our customers.

After what has felt like a long wait the government announced in May 2021 that all non-essential shops including indoor markets will be allowed to re-open from June 2021. Baby and Children’s Market have decided to return in September. The reason for this is because we want to ensure our events are safe.

We will be taking the necessary health and safety steps as recommended by the government to ensure our event organisers, customers, and their families are not at risk while attending our events. New sales dates will be published shortly on our website and Facebook pages.

Necessary COVID-19 risk assessments will be conducted prior to re-opening our nearly new baby sales come September. Once conducted the necessary measures will be put in place to reduce the risk to the lowest reasonably practicable level by taking up the advised government preventative measures.

What’s on offer at our Baby and Children’s Nearly New Baby Sales?

Baby & Children’s Markets nearly new sales provide the parental community with excellent quality nearly baby sales UK wide. Top brand preloved items at bargain prices. It’s the perfect place to stock up on great quality furniture, buggies, toys, clothes, maternity, books, bikes and so much more!

Mums and Dads can book a table at any of our events to sell on their quality preloved baby and children’s goods to bargain-hungry parents. All items are up to 90% off the full retail price which is a massive saving! Our nearly new baby sales are a fun way to grab some amazing bargains while helping the environment by recycling at the same time!

Why choose a Baby and Children’s Market to sell your children’s items?
Where to sell my children’s items near me?

Whether you’re selling all your baby gear to fund next year’s holiday or you’re hunting for bargains for your first baby, a nearly new sale can make money for sellers and save money for buyers. Win. Win. CLICK HERE for more information on the benefits of selling at a nearly new baby sale near you!

The Baby & Children’s Markets are the place where ‘Smart Parents’ Buy, Sell, and Save a fortune on children’s items! Seller takes home 100% of their sales profit on the day!

  • Do you have stacks of out-grown nearly new baby and children’s toys, clothes, books, games, equipment, maternity items, etc. from birth to 8 years taking over your house?
  • Are you spending hours uploading your items online and getting very little for the effort? Or dealing with eBay and Facebook time wasters?

It’s simple, fun, and stress-free PLUS you take home 100% of the SALES YOU MAKE on the day!

  • You have complete control over your stall, how you set it up, and how you price your items!
  • Plus you have the opportunity to negotiate your prices directly with the buyer so you don’t miss out on a sale!

Join us at a market near you. Have a fun day out with other like-minded Mums & Dads, gain your storage room back, and on top of all MAKE SOME CASH!

READY TO BOOK A STALL? Then click the BOOK A STALL button below:

Don’t have a nearly new baby sale near you?

Then why not JOIN OUR TEAM and run your own local baby and children’s nearly new sales for your parental community.

Joining our team is easy and very affordable!

We are looking for, self-motivated mums or dads to start their own home-based self-employed business running local baby and children’s nearly new baby sales UK-wide. Affordable setup fee plus full training and ongoing support provided.

JOIN TODAY! CLICK HERE!

We thank you for your patience and hope to see you in September at a market near you!  Take care and stay safe!

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Coronavirus/ COVID-19 – IMPORTANT UPDATE

Coronavirus/ COVID-19 – IMPORTANT UPDATE

In light of the global Coronavirus/ COVID-19 pandemic. It is with great sadness that our Baby and Children’s Market nearly new sales will be postponed until the government provides the green light for events/nearly new baby sales to re-open.

Due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, our customers and their families’ health and safety are of great importance to us and so all nearly new sales have been postponed during the current climate.

New nearly new sale dates will be published on the website along with our social media pages once we are given the green light to resume.

All pre-booked stall bookings will be transferred to a future event, with a choice of suitable dates. Your local event managers will be in touch with all booked stallholders shortly.

Protecting yourself and others from the spread COVID-19

Coronavirus/ COVID-19 – IMPORTANT UPDATE. You can reduce your chances of being infected or spreading COVID-19 by taking some simple precautions:

  • Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Why? Washing your hands with soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rub kills viruses that may be on your hands.
  • Maintain at least 1 meter (3 feet) distance between yourself and others. Why? When someone coughs, sneezes, or speaks they spray small liquid droplets from their nose or mouth which may contain the virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the droplets, including the COVID-19 virus if the person has the disease.
  • Avoid going to crowded places. Why? Where people come together in crowds, you are more likely to come into close contact with someone that has COIVD-19 and it is more difficult to maintain a physical distance of 1 meter (3 feet).
  • Avoid touching eyes, nose, and mouth. Why? Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose, or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and infect you.
  • Make sure you, and the people around you, follow good respiratory hygiene. This means covering your mouth and nose with your bent elbow or tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately and wash your hands. Why? Droplets spread the virus. By following good respiratory hygiene, you protect the people around you from viruses such as cold, flu, and COVID-19.
  • Stay home and self-isolate even with minor symptoms such as cough, headache, mild fever, until you recover. Have someone bring you supplies. If you need to leave your house, wear a mask to avoid infecting others. Why? Avoiding contact with others will protect them from possible COVID-19 and other viruses.
  • If you have a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical attention, but call by telephone in advance if possible and follow the directions of your local health authority. Why? National and local authorities will have the most up to date information on the situation in your area. Calling in advance will allow your health care provider to quickly direct you to the right health facility. This will also protect you and help prevent the spread of viruses and other infections.
  • Keep up to date on the latest information from trusted sources, such as WHO or your local government and national health authorities. Why? Local and national authorities are best placed to advise on what people in your area should be doing to protect themselves.
  • If you do experience any of the symptoms: a cough, high temperature, or shortness of breath, please remain at home visit https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19 or call NHS 111 for advice.
New safety requirements that Baby and Children’s Market nearly new sales will implement once we are back up and running.

Coronavirus/ COVID-19 – IMPORTANT UPDATE.

  • We will require all sellers to wash any washable items that are on sale and wipe down hard surfaces with disinfectant wipes.
  • Sellers will be required to bring hand sanitizer to the event so that you can adopt good hand hygiene practices without having to leave your stall.
  • Buyers and sellers will be encouraged to wear protective masks while attending our events.
  • Sellers’ tables will be positioned 2 meters apart.
  • Sellers’ tables will be wiped down with disinfectant prior to sellers arriving.
  • Buyers will be required to line up 2 meters apart while waiting for the nearly new sale to open.
  • A one-way buyers entrance and exit system will be implemented where possible
  • Hand sanitizer will be made available at the entrance of the nearly new baby sale for customers to use. Soap and sanitizer will also be made available at venue bathroom facilities.
  • Venues we hold our events in will complete their own health and hygiene procedures to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
  • Once nearly new sales are resumed more information will be provided once a full risk assessment has been conducted.
For up to date advice about Coronavirus (COVID-19), please visit the following websites detailed below. 

We look forward to resuming our nearly new sales soon.

Take care and stay safe!

The Hunt

Nearly new sales, baby sales, preloved sales. Doesn’t matter what you call them. The mere mention is like a bolt of lightning in a DeLorean at 88 miles per hour.

I can feel the adrenalin soaring already and a countdown begins! Dates are highlighted on the calendar and my weekend work is moved around accordingly – my piano pupils have no idea. I may have been known to visit parents in Scotland when there happens to be a sale on, or the in-laws near Cambridge. I’m in London.

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How did it all begin and are there many like-minded souls? My other half calls it an affliction; addiction! I know few others afflicted (except my mother-in-law) but am reassured by the queues. Think of Apple iPhone queues on a compact scale, except there is the sense in arriving early to snag the best bargains!

It doesn’t surprise me as it’s not about just the savings. There is such a buzz, a rush, a thrill… I daresay the same as shopaholic-ism or any other “isms”. To me, it makes utter sense! I mean, the boys were in and out of first outfits and some things were literally worn once, even not once. Being gifted things in the next size/s is always frustrating – not to sound ungrateful – but it means that by the time they get to that size, it’s the wrong season for that vest or snowsuit!

Baby & Children's Market Nearly New Sale

But what if the outfit only cost £1 and looked virtually new? Even pretty used, I’d hand over a quid any day if the kid only manages to adorn it once! A new packet of several baby vests would set you back on average a tenner – why spend £8 more than you need to for the exact same ones, used a few times but in nearly new condition? Goodness knows that those vomiting, pooing, dirt-magnets we endearingly call our offspring, need an abundance of spares; there is an argument for quantity over quality in these times! Is there now no excuse for shrewd shopping for prams, baby equipment, toys, all manner of outfits etc.?

An addict, me? I prefer to be called a bargain hunter. You just can’t knock it; the exhilaration from knowing you’ve bagged a bargain is second to none! Why should toys be brand new and wrapped tightly in a show box? I can safely vouch that it makes no difference to the kid.

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Method: There is a skill, I’ve seen people master it and my mother-in-law is no exception. Yet I haven’t managed to fine tune the art of picking out the crop of the goods on entry from having had a good position in the queue.

Getting through the doors is overwhelming, somewhat panicky – where do you go first? Circle all the stalls or dive for anything you see while wasting precious time paying for it?! I think I will need to visit a few more to try and improve on this method.

It’s not that we are especially tight for money; I’d never scrimp so much that they’d be without what they really need. Last season, Spider-Man wellies were all the rage, so I knew it’d be pointless scouting for some in a sale. Well, I pinned some down on eBay, the next point of call. But they set me back £6 including delivery, and then there was the wait. All his previous wellies have cost under £2 a pair from sales, lasting no more than a year. Spare wellies and clothes are left at their grandparents but do not always still fit on following visits!

Baby & Children's Market Nearly New Sale

That’s the beauty of it – guilt free, environmentally friendly shopping for goods with short life-cycles, where a splurge is more than justified! It’s swift, it’s convenient, it saves hours of trawling on the internet and postage fees; you can ask for demos on equipment, try toys out and even put your haggling skills to use.

I hate buying anything new now and always think that maybe I could find it at the next sale. I have no shame in admitting that under our Christmas tree, Santa will have had at least 70% help from a baby sale!

How many have I visited? Hmm, let’s see… My oldest kid is 3 and 8 months, and I discovered the first sale when he was 3 months old. I make it to about twelve per year, so somewhere in the region of forty in total. Does that sound bad?!

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Calculations say that I may have saved a couple of thousand pounds in that time.

So if people ask me how we can manage another holiday or long weekend away, I reveal my no-brainer scheme!

What do I do with all the stuff once he grows out of it? Become a seller and have the benefit of “previewing” goods in a sale before anyone else! Members have priority entrance, undoubtedly the sole reason for joining. And what do I do with all that newly found space? Hit the next sale, of course!

Before kids, I had to haul myself up a snowy mountain wrapped up like a marshmallow to seek a thrill. Now it’s the matter of how fast the route 42 will get me to the next sale.

This post was contributed to the blog by S Li-Barker

Baby & Children's Market Nearly New Sale