Thank you for registering to consign or donate items to voyagers Learning Resources Fair.

How to Sell Materials at the Learners’ Resources Fair

What we will take:

All educational materials are welcome – texts, full curriculums, educational games, toys and puzzles, early childhood through high school, parent materials, anything you have used in your homeschool that are in usable condition. Due to space limitations, we are unable to accept sports equipment, computer hardware or furniture or other items easily sellable in a yard sale. We will accept musical instruments in good condition!

You have selected a drop off time as indicated when registering. Please allow up to ½ hour for inspection of your materials. Consignors are required to pick up their unsold materials between 3 and 4 pm on Saturday. If you are unable to pick up your own materials, please arrange for someone to pick them up for you. Any remaining materials will become the property of Voyagers may potentially be sold in Sundays’ clearnace sale, future sales, or utilized by Voyagers in any way. Neither Voyagers nor its volunteers will be responsible for any damaged, mislabeled or lost property or labels on items.

Please read and follow these directions carefully. Proper labeling will ensure you get the price you are asking for your items as well as insure your unsold items are returned to you. It is preferred labels be computer printed rather than hand written. Prepare your items for sale – making and placing labels:

• Open the LRF Tags (Excel) file found here LRF_Tags1.xls: Tag Template
• Your screen should show a sheet of 15 labels.
• Simply tab your way through the form, entering the necessary selling information.
• Select prices for your materials. Remember, this is a used materials sale – think eBay or garage sale prices. 1/3 of the list price is a good starting point if your materials are in good condition. Price items in even dollar amounts. If the item is not worth $1, either keep it or mark it as FREE. Many wonderful items have not sold in the past due to very high asking prices.
• If you are selling sets (i.e. teacher edition, student edition, workbook, etc.), please indicate on the price line how many items are in the set ($5/set of 3).
• Select a category from the list for your materials:
  • Arts & Music (handcrafts included)
  • Books (Select one: Fiction, Nonfiction,)
  • Computer Science (topic specific software should be listed with that topic. Jump Start Math = Math category)
  • Critical Thinking (Logic, puzzles, games)
  • Early Childhood Education (birth to preschool materials, books, games, etc.)
  • Foreign Language
  • FREE – please label the FREE items as well!
  • Games & Toys (must have some educational value, please!)
  • Health & Phys. Ed.
  • Home Ec. & Industrial Arts (NO cookbooks, please)
  • Homeschooling Resources (all the how-to's and philosophies of homeschooling)
  • Language Arts (English, penmanship, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, etc.)
  • Math
  • Misc. (all the other things that don’t fit a category but please try to find a category before using this)
  • Parenting/Child Development
  • Reference (Dictionaries, atlases, etc.)
  • Religion (materials on any widely accepted religion that is educational in nature)
  • Science
  • Sciences, History, Geography
  • Unit Studies
• Print your labels. Each item will need two labels. The easiest way to produce duplicate labels from your printer is to enter a full sheet of items and then simply print two copies – or three if you want an inventory of the items you have consigned. Do this with each set of 15 labels.
• Place your labels on your items. WE CAN NOT SELL ITMES WITHOUT LABLES! Labels sometimes fall off – that’s why we need two!
  • Tape one label to the upper right corner of the outside of the front cover of your books. Tape a duplicate label in the inside front cover. Please use clear cellophane tape only. Do not use glue or double sided tape.
  • For non-book items such as games, flash cards, manipulatives, and computer software, place the 2 labels next to one another.
  • To secure sets of items, large zipper style bags work great but please make sure everything fits inside and the bag is sealed. Place one label on the outside of the bag, the duplicate on the inside.
  • NO – strings, rubber bands (this is an allergen we avoid at Voyagers), twine, rope, etc.

-- RhondaHamer - 03 May 2010