Thank you for supporting the Norwich Women’s Club!
Your consignments support the following Women's Club endeavors:
Education Scholarship Fund and Community Projects Grant Program
PLEASE READ ALL THE GUIDELINES FOR CONSIGNMENT!
The Nearly New Sale is a consignment sale. People bring up to 175 items of their new or gently worn men’s, women’s and children’s clothing and accessories to us to sell for them. The consignor receives 50% of the selling price, and the remainder benefits the primary philanthropic efforts of the Norwich Women’s Club: our Education Scholarship Fund, and our Community Projects Grant Program. The Sale is a fundraising event, run by many volunteers, and has allowed the NWC to provide over $800,000 in education scholarships to Norwich residents since 1964. We also aim each year to provide between $20,000 to $25,000 in Community Project Grants to Norwich affiliated non-profit organizations. As this is a fundraiser, the clothing we accept must be in excellent, nearly new condition. All items accepted are inspected first by volunteers using strict guidelines that are available on our website.
You will ultimately be paid 50% of the sale price of each item sold in the regular sale (Friday-Saturday) and Half Price Sale (Sunday 10 am-1 pm), but nothing if the item remains in the Bag Sale (Sunday 1:30 pm-3 pm). Consignors may wish to pick up unsold items on Saturday afternoon. All consigned items not retrieved during the designated period on Saturday go into a Half-Price Sale on Sunday morning, and then into a Bag Sale that afternoon. If they remain unsold by the end of the sale, items are donated to the Listen Center. See our inspection guidelines for details about what clothing and accessories are accepted.
As we have moved to a once a year sale we will accept clothing for all seasons, although fall, winter and spring items sell best.
We are continuing with the online consignment system that we have used now since 2019.
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All clothing inventory, pricing, and tagging to be done by consignors prior to the inspection period, using the online program on their own computer or tablet.
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Help sessions planned during the online consignment period for people with technical questions regarding the new system.
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Upper limit of 175 items per consignor (NEW).
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Consignor registration fee of $5 will be deducted from your consignor check (helps defray costs of the online system and mailing consignor checks).
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Consignors print their price tags from the online program onto specified cardstock and attach to their items using a tagging gun and stems, or safety pins.
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Detailed Consigning instructions are available on the Norwich Women’s Club website. The website includes pricing guidelines.
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Consignors can see online at the end of sale which of their items sold.
To consign, you must:
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Sign on to the program using the appropriate link on our website: New Consignor Registration if you are a first time consignor, or Consignor Homepage if a returning consignor. New consignors will receive a consignor number. Returning consignors are able to use their consignor number from prior sales.
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Review and agree to our Consignor’s Agreement
You will use the online system with your personal computer or tablet to enter and price the clothes you want to sell, under your consignor account. You will print your own price tags using cardstock we recommend. You will then attach the price tags using a tagging gun and stems, or safety pins, that you purchase. We have information in the Detailed Consignment Instructions on our website about where to purchase all these supplies.
NOTE: we do have tagging guns and stems that consignors can borrow during the Online Consignment period. Contact the NNS sale email account at nns.consign@gmail.com for help with this. We will also have a TAGGING STATION at Tracy Hall during the Inspection Period October 16-18 2024. Bring your printed tags on cardstock. We will have scissors, tagging guns and stems for you to add your tags to your consigned items prior to inspection.
We are setting aside Help Sessions during the online consignment period for us to answer any of your technical questions in person. They are scheduled for Sunday, September 21, 2025, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm and Thursday, October 9, 2025, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, all held at the Norwich Historical Society at 277 Main St., Norwich. Please note that these times allow us to help YOU familiarize yourself with the new system. We will help you to inventory, print and tag up to 10 items. Bring your items and your laptop or tablet device to the help session.
If you have any problems using the new program during the online consignment period, please send your questions to nns.consign@gmail.com We will get back to you as soon as we are able.
Once your items are organized, you will bring them to Tracy Hall as in the past for inspection during the week of the sale: Wednesday 12 noon to 7 pm, Thursday 10 am to 6 pm, or Friday from 10 am to 2 pm. We have instituted a new drop off system to enable you to leave your tagged items with us for inspection and return later in the day to retrieve any items we are unable to accept.
We do accept donated clothing in advance of the sale if people do not wish to consign. Please contact Kay McCabe to arrange inspection of the clothes you want to donate. Appointments are available on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the week before the sale. Phone (802) 281-2132 or email her at kaymccabe1@gmail.com to arrange a time. The inspections will be done at her home at 23 Cliff Street, Norwich.
Note: Some consignors may wish to take home their unsold clothes on the Saturday afternoon of the sale (between 2:30 and 3:30 pm), before clothes go into the Half Price and Bag Sales on Sunday. You will need to bring a copy of your online inventory sheet, find the unsold clothes yourself on the sales floor, and then check out with a cashier to make sure the clothes you are taking home are on your inventory list. Please be aware: clothing may not always be hung on the correct rack, or may still be in the dressing room area waiting to be re-hung. Our volunteer sales staff try their best to put back clothing in the most appropriate place, but sometimes items end up in unexpected locations. The NWC can not be held responsible for any consigned items that are not found, or later not sold.