How to Consign with Us

Why Consign?

Getting cash for your impeccable sense of style isn’t the only benefit of becoming a consignor! Consigning clothing in excellent condition is a great way to practice sustainable lifestyle habits by extending the life of your garments and keeping them out of landfills. Consign with us at Persimmon to declutter your closet, support a local business, and help other fabulous shoppers like yourself develop their unique sense of style.

  • Getting Started

    After you read the Consignor Agreement, book an appointment to come in with your first batch of items and to have us set up your account in our consignment portal. Consignment intake for new consignors is by appointment ONLY*.

  • The Process

    Your items will be selected and priced by staff based on a variety of criteria. They will be on sale at Persimmon for 63 days (or two full months). After that time, your items will be donated to a local charity or otherwise used for store promotions. You may pick up an item any time before its expiration.

  • The Payout

    When your items sell, you'll get 50% of the sale price if using it as in-store credit, or 45% for cash payouts (40% starting Jan 2025). For payments less than $50, we’ll pay you in cash. For any amount over $50, we will pay you via check. Consignors are responsible for looking up the balance of their account online and requesting payment.

Consignor Q&A

Is there anything you DON’T accept?

While we do accept a wide variety of women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories, there is a small group of items we do not accept, or that we only rarely accept, simply because we have seen that these items don't sell well for us. Please contact us if you have questions about specific brands.

This includes:
• Traditional professional office wear (suits, unless they can be sold as separates) - sometimes
• Used swimsuits, intimates or pajamas (including socks, tights, undergarments) - never
• Wedding gowns and other formalwear - sometimes
• Locally-available big-box brands from Walmart, Kohls, Target (some exceptions might be made) - rarely
• Fast fashion brands like Amazon, Shein, and others. - rarely

Other Considerations
We will accept high-end costume jewelry that is non-precious metals and stones (Brighton is a good example), but we prefer sterling silver, gold, and other non-reactive materials like fabric, thread, wool, etc. Swimsuits/socks/pajamas may be accepted ONLY if they are brand-new in the packaging.

What condition should my items be in?

Items should be in excellent like-new condition. We have high standards for what we’ll take, so be sure to pre-screen your items and do your best to ensure they are in ready-to-sell condition.

At the time of the drop off, all items must meet the following standards – no exceptions:

• Freshly laundered or dry cleaned as appropriate (we check pockets of jackets), minimal wrinkles please
• No stains/odors, holes or tears, pills or pulls, broken zippers, missing buttons or other fasteners that affect the usability of the item
• Items with excessive pet hair or smelling of smoke, moth balls, or mildew can not be accepted – NO EXCEPTIONS - this affects the quality of other items and the store in general
• Clothing should be neatly folded in bags, bins, or boxes – please do not shove items tightly into containers or plastic bags as this will cause wrinkles in garments
• Shoes must be paired together
• Jewelry must be in good condition (minimal tarnish, no obvious flaws) and earrings must be in pairs; pendants should ideally come with a chain, but this is not 100% required depending on the quality of the pendant.

How many items can I bring in?

Due to staffing and storage limitations, we must set standards for item limits.

• If dropping by with no appointment, please limit items to under 10. We may or may not have time to review these items for you as you wait, depending on how the day is going. If you call ahead, we are more likely to be able to accommodate you. If you are a NON donator, please plan on waiting a little longer than usual, or come back later in the day to pick up any items we cannot take.
• Small appointments may bring UP TO 20 items.
• Large appointments may bring UP TO 30 items. Anything larger than that requires special advance approval and booking from staff; please call after making your Large appointment online to verify that we will have time at your appointment to review everything. If we are able to accommodate more items, we will book you two appointments in a row, but only if requested.
• There are no appointments on Saturdays, because this is our busiest sales day, but if you need us to make an exception, please call and we will manually schedule an appointment for you.
• Please do not bring in any more than 10 jewelry items at a time unless you get advance approval from the store.

What other information should I keep in mind?*

• *If you choose to have all unaccepted items donated, we may accept consignment intake outside of regular consignment hours.

• If you need the check to be mailed, it costs an additional $1.

• Consignors have one year from the date their item sold to request payment for that item. After a year, the unclaimed balance will expire and revert to the shop.

• You may choose to use your balance as in-store credit, but we may or may not be able to provide a payout for the balance of your account on the same day, depending on what's happening at the time.

• Jewelry items of lower value expire on the same schedule as clothing (60 days); higher-value items (over $15) do not expire until we feel they have been around for long enough. We will contact the consignor if multiple items are being expired. If this is important to you, please keep track of higher-value items in your account and come reclaim them if they have been on the floor for more than 120 days. (4 months)

• High-value couture items: We try our best to ensure that all items being sold are what they claim to be. We will NEVER sell items we know or suspect to be counterfeit, even labeled as such. If you purchase a high-value item from Persimmon that you later find to not be genuine (through professional authentication services), we will refund your purchase price and the amount you paid for the authentication up to $20.

• Watches: We expect all consigned watches to be in working order, whether or not they have batteries. Our policy is to refund purchase price of any non-functional watch if the buyer has the battery replaced and finds that it is not working. We will deduct that amount from your consignor account and return the watch to you.

• Items we find damaged on the floor: If one of your items is discovered to have a defect after it has been accepted, we will attempt to contact you to return the item to you (if you are a non-donating consignor). We may choose to put the item on sale As-Is, or for donators, we may just donate or even discard the item if we feel it is not reparable.

What + When

We accept clothes, shoes, jewelry, bags, scarves, and other select accessories that are in season. We cannot accept most items that are off-season because of limited storage space, so we kindly ask that you return to consign your items at the appropriate time.

The general seasonal intake schedule is as follows, but may be adjusted based on the weather, how stocked we are, and other factors (please contact us if there's any question about what to bring):

• August - October:  Fall 
• November - January: Winter
• February - April: Spring
• May - July: Summer

Customer Favorites

Our customers love stylish contemporary brands and luxury designer items in excellent condition. This ranges from a classic Talbots or J. Jill style to a more modern Yala or Cabi, to name only a few of the wide range of brands we accept. We also strive for diverse size representation, so we accept ALL adult sizes, including plus-sizes.

OTHER GREAT SELLERS

• High-end sportswear
• Shoes of all sizes
• Jewelry and precious or semi-precious stones

Luxury goods may require authenticating in order to get the best price for them.

For items with a value above what we can typically sell in-store, we may be able to list them for sale on our website in order to expand the market. Items that have been sold on the website will be pulled from the floor of the shop as soon as we are aware they have been sold.