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Helping Give New Life to the World’s Used Purses, Shoes and Belts

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Not just country music lyrics, these words tell us how people can find new value in something that might have otherwise been considered useless. While a pair of torn shoes or a used belt once seemed destined for the garbage bin, today there are a host of recycling […]

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Holiday Season Approaching; Overstock and Returned Toys Need to Go! But Where?

  With the Christmas holiday season fast approaching, retailers are clearing their shelves to make room for the latest and greatest products. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than with toys, where kids (and their parents) are being marketed to about what the “must have” items are for the current season. When the hot items

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Help Alleviate The Crisis of Stuff: How to Avoid Sending Used Goods to Landfill (And Make Money!)

The Crisis of Stuff. We are at an intersection of hyper consumption and exorbitant waste. In this current culture of consumption with a disposable mentality, we’re facing an ever-growing crisis: What do we do with all this stuff? If you’re a retailer, charity or thrift store, you know exactly what we’re talking about. Used clothing

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Baler Buying Guide – Maximizing The Value Of Your Investment

Having a baler for mixed rags and credential clothing is a minimum requirement for working with used clothing buyers and brokers like Bank & Vogue. This investment can seem like an intimidating one, but identifying the means available to optimize your investment is often all it takes to expose your business to the potential value

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Dealing With Donated Shoes – Capturing Cashflow

When baling, storing, and shipping mixed rags and credential clothing, donated shoes can be a challenge. You can’t process shoes with fabric clothing, as balers will utterly compromise the integrity of even canvas shoes, let alone high-heels. Left without any apparent option, many charity and for-profit clothing resellers will simply throw them away. But with the right

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Optimize Cashflow From Mixed Rags and Credential Clothing

Some Bank & Vogue sellers of mixed rags and credential clothing capture up to 25% of their yearly revenue through partnership with our company. And yours can do the same. Doing so is a matter of maximizing the value recieved for credential clothing/mixed rags, and minimizing the costs required to sell them. Here’s how to do

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Sourcing Wholesale Store Returned Merchandise With Bank & Vogue

In the first 3 months following the Holiday season, retailers process approximately 60% of the entire year’s store returns. Unable to sell them outside of this season, they are left with little choice but to sell their returned stock in bulk. Clothing, furniture, toys; almost every consumer product imaginable becomes available at jaw-dropping discounts to businesses

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