A Few Popular Children’s Clothing Brands Don’t Make the Final Cut

We have been busy over the past year researching designer children’s clothing brands for inclusion on our LoobaLee listing menus.    This is a never-ending process!  So many new brands continue to appear each year, while many others are retired.   We have been amazed at the shear volume of designer and exclusive brands from both the U.S. and around the world.  It’s a testament to the demand for quality children’s clothing.

We will go live in Private Beta mode (request your code) with over 700 brands.  We have carefully reviewed and qualified each one of them.   Unreal!  Even more unbelievable, is that our list of pending brands comprises an additional 1,000+ brands.

Qualified brands are sold wholesale in (or imported to) the U.S., are of consistently high (if not supreme) quality, and offer items at retail price points that save room for margin on the resale market.

So, who didn’t make the cut?  Surprisingly, a few stores that we have been blogging about in our bi-weekly “What’s On Sale” posts, among others:

• Children’s Place
• Old Navy
• Carter’s
• OshKosh
• Justice
• Limited Too

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Of course there are exceptions.  About 20% of each of these brands would do well on the resale market, especially higher priced items and styles that were in high demand when originally released.

However, the majority of the brand will not do well on resale and, therefore, will not justify the overhead of shipping costs.   On-line selling is simply not the right market for ‘passing’ on these gently used items.  Because we offer unlimited listings to sellers for a flat-fee and in order to keep LoobaLee listings of high quality for our Buyers, we needed to make these “final cut” decisions.

We will, however, continue to include these brands in our recommendations for buying new (as appropriate) and when donating or selling by other means.  We recognize these are often well-loved brands by Moms and kids alike.

Tip for Buying New:  While it’s tempting to buy these brands new at the prices and discounts offered, the resale market is low.   To “outfit your kids for virtually free” we recommend limiting lower-priced and lower-quality items in your kids wardrobes.  Sounds backwards?  Yes!  But, think of most purchases as “just passing through” — you care as much about what you pay up front as what you can get after wearing.