Tape & Pin

Off the rack. Priced by the pins.

Photograph a piece you no longer wear, write its tag, and price it against what similar pieces actually sold for, not what people hoped to get.

Wool overcoat

How it's been worn
$46you'd be paid $42.32

Right in the middle of what sold.

Pieces like this in the same condition sold for $36 to $52. At $46, expect it to go within about two weeks.

The tapeEach pin is a sale. Drag your tag, or use the arrow keys.

Pins from pieces of the same kind sold in the last three months. Faded pins are in a different condition from yours.

Folded in tissue and tied.

This is a demonstration. Nothing was listed and nobody was charged.

How it works, on the care label.

Four instructions, sewn in where you'd look for them. Nothing else to learn.

  1. Three photos, in daylight

    On the closet door, flat on the bed, worn in a mirror. No flash. Buyers trust a crease more than a filter.

  2. Price by the pins

    Slide your tag along what sold. We never set your price; we show you where it sits.

  3. Ship within two days

    Fold it in the tissue we send with your first sale, and drop it at any post office.

  4. Paid when it lands

    The money is yours the day the buyer says it arrived as described, or after three days.

What it costs is on the back of the tag.

Turn it over. That's the whole price list.

Wool overcoat

Size
M
Worn
Worn well
Price
$46

Turn me over for what we take.

No subscription, no "boost", no fee to relist. If it doesn't sell, it costs you nothing. If it does, we keep 8% and you keep the rest.

Here's the coat from the rack, worked out on the back of a receipt:

Sold for$46.00 Our 8%−$3.68 Paid to you$42.32

Two people and a steam iron.

Tape & Pin was started by Orla Teague, who ran the wardrobe department of a touring theater for eleven years, and Sami Okafor, who writes the software. Orla spent a decade pricing secondhand costume by feel. The tape is her habit, written down: before you price anything, look at what the last ones like it went for.

We're small on purpose. No auctions, no countdowns, no "only one left". Just your piece, its tag, and the pins.

Dani in the charcoal overcoat, a mirror photo taken in her bedroom
Dani R., Columbus, Ohio Listed the overcoat on Oct 3 at $46, three photos, no filter. A buyer in Dayton had it on Oct 11. She was paid $42.32. "I'd have asked $80 and waited all winter. The pins talked me down and it was gone in a week."

Pinned inside our door

Price it where it sells, not where it hurts.

A crease photographs honestly. A filter doesn't.

Fold the sleeves in. Always.