More kid stuff: gently-used.com

I spent a little time this morning going through my "Logins" label in my gmail to see if I'd created accounts for any services which I had subsequently forgotten existed. There were, indeed, quite a few. One which did not get mentioned in the Family PSS Round-up is gently-used.com. 

Gently-used is a site for clothing, toys, and maternity. Listings are posted in USD. The site is, in general, structured like eBay. Retailers aren't supposed to post anything, it's basically supposed to be parents only. There are insertion fees, but they aren't too bad, and they cover an unlimited amount of time for the listing. 

Noticing the unlimited listings thing, I browsed the site to get a sense of the quality of the items and listings. See, I theorized in a previous posting that what would happen would be that overpriced items would hang around the site, while the good stuff would disappear quickly. When I perused the 12-18 month section, this looked to be exactly the case. $4 for a onesie? Many listings of onesies at $4 apiece? Even including shipping? No one with any sense would bite, when you can get a onesie for 50 cents at a yard sale in your own neighborhood. If I'm buying a onesie online, I expect to get 6 of them for $4. It's no surprise that these listings have been hanging around for 6+ months.

The site does at least offer the option to browse listings by newness, so if you feel like reloading the page, you might be able to find a bargain.