CIC Marketplace - All the details
Marketplace is a community driven semi-annual event for selling and/or buying, recycling or up cycling things comprising handmade goods, clothes, trinkets, electronics and much much more…
CIC Marketplace presents “Cambrian Kids Couture” - Once Loved, Twice Owned Kids Clothing!
As a pilot program, Marketplace is being launched with “Cambrian Kids Couture” featuring gently used Ethnic Indian Kids Apparel and Halloween Costumes.
When : Feb 26, 3-6pm
Where: Vineland branch Library, 1450 Blossom Hill Rd, San Jose, CA 95118
For Buyers
- No admission fee, open to all Cambrian and Non Cambrian friends and family!
- No registration required, walk-in!
- Kids of all ages welcome!
- Cash only please!
For Sellers
- Sort and pick your kids gently used Indian Apparel/Halloween costumes you want to put up for sale
- Clean, Iron or steam clean, make them ready for sale
- Clothes only in excellent, presentable and wearable condition accepted. Examples of rejected clothes: worn-out, crumpled, stained, torn, missing buttons, missing pieces in the set etc. These are not GOODWILL type of clothes. Very minor, unnoticeable missing pieces in garment like a stone or part thread work is acceptable.
- Pack them in a clean bag. Please include the requested info below in the same format:
-- NAME (First & Last names of Adult seller)
-- Phone Number
-- Email address
- With each outfit/garment, please include,
-- Garment Size (best effort, if not already marked on the garment)
-- Requested sale price
-- For Indian Garments, please use the Indian Clothing Sizing chart. For US garments, please use the US sizing chart.
-- You can include the above requested information on a piece of paper and place it inside the bag.
- Drop your bag at the drop-off location by Feb 5.
- Attend the sale event as a buyer if you want to browse and buy other clothes.
- Drop Off Location: Please leave a comment or message to get more information about the drop-off location.
How it works
- The marketplace team which includes expert fabric/clothing evaluators will evaluate the condition, quality, age, market availability, uniqueness and then finalize the sale price for each item. Please NOTE that the sale price maybe higher or lower than the seller’s requested price.
- Kids Halloween costumes will be approximately in the range 5-10$ and a max of 15-20$ depending on the number of pieces and quality.
- If you have a very expensive item or a rare unique item, please give us additional details and approximate original price of the item.
- The sale price marked by the Marketplace team is FINAL and there will not be any bargains or seller negotiations for the price. Please note that this is a BEST effort to recycle/upcycle your goods.
- All sale-worthy Apparel and also rejected Apparel that don't make it to the sale will be held by marketplace team till the day of the sale.
- After the sale of your items, 1$ for every 10$ sale will be taken as proceeds by the Marketplace team to cover operating expenses. Any additional leftover funds will be given to CIC to use in its charitable activities, details of which will be posted along with accounting after the SALE day.
- Sellers will be given their $$ amount, less the proceeds, for their clothes in cash at the end of the Sale event at the Sale Location (OR) at a later date via Paypal.
- Any unsold, rejected clothes will be packaged in same bag that they were dropped off and will need to be picked up Mar 1 or 2nd from the same drop-off location.
- - Those that cannot pick up their goods on the above-mentioned dates, will be notified to arrange for alternate pickup dates. Failing that, a public post will be made with the names called out for pickup
