How it works

The Sale - We call this a Swap (people swapping old for new) but this is actually a consignment sale. This means convenience for you. You don't have to hang around trying to sell your equipment. We have a low consignment rate, 25%. You just drop off your gear Thursday and then on Sunday, you pickup any unsold items.

After the Sale - Our new website will let you know which of your gear has sold. We will send a check to you the following week. In the mean time, you can get to the ball game or whatever else is going on. You can, of course also hang out at the swap and help out or look for something new or used to replace the items you are selling.

Individuals - How we (you and the Newport PTSA) make money - You bring your clean, in-safe-condition items, you price it, and we check it into our inventory system. We take only 25% of the selling price and you take home 75% if it sells. There are no mark-downs or discounting during the sale. We sell it for the price you set. Those checking your gear in can advise on the price but it is up to you.

Ski/Snowboard Shops - Prior arrangements must be made before coming to the swap. Click on the Shops menu for more info.

Dates/Time/Activities

Gear Pre- Registration

Pre-Registration - We now have a secure web registration for individual sellers gear. You register yourself as a seller and then register all of your gear from any computer at home. You print your inventory list and bring it when you come to Check-In your gear. The tags will be preprinted and ready to put on your gear.

During the sale and after - You will also be able to see what sold and what didn't on the web site so you know whether you have any gear to pickup on Sunday. You can also decide if there is any gear that you would like to donate to charities. Please mark those donations on the Website on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.

Payment for Proceeds - The swap has grown to a size that we simply can not properly do all the accounting and check writing by Sunday. So this year we again will be sending checks during the week following the swap.

Check-In Gear - Thursday 5-9pm, Friday 2-6 pm

Individuals - Just bring your ski and snowboard related gear to Newport High. You must have pre-registered your gear on the website. We will pre-print labels to go on your gear. We will put the labeled item out of the floor in the appropriate place.  You have a better chance to sell the gear if you bring it on Thursday, as on Friday evening it generally gets too crazy to get it out on the floor. Gear checked in late on Friday evening may not be available until Saturday morning so there will be a lot of gear and many great deals still available yet at closing time.

Ski or Snowboard related gear only - hard goods (skis, snowboards, boots, bindings, helmets, racks, etc.) or soft goods (pants, jackets, fleece, gloves, bags, etcetera). 

Old, unsafe, dirty and otherwise unsaleable gear will be rejected. Used underwear and socks are not allowed by law.  We do not take matched sets (pants/jackets, snowboard bindings/boots) as they almost always get separated at some point during the sale and are then not tagged properly and therefore not saleable.

If you want to DONATE all sale proceeds to the Newport High PTSA (Parent, Teacher, Student Association), put Newport PTSA as the Last Name on the Online Registration with no phone or address.

Note: The closest and easiest place to drop-off your gear is from the West Parking lot but you can come into the school from the North & East parking lots as well.  Please do not use the bus turn-around on the south side.

Sale - Friday 1-9 pm and Saturday 9-6

Come in any time, we will have lots of merchandise (approx. 12,000 items in 16,000+ sq. feet) and professional help (55+ people) throughout the sale. The first day, perhaps you have the maximum choices but also maximum craziness with masses of bargain hunters.  In 2009, we sold the same amount of gear ($185,000) and had the same amount of customers (4,000) on Friday evening in 4 hours as on Saturday in 10 hours so you can see that the second day is a much more leisurely buying experience.  We are adding 4 hours on Friday so hopefully it will hopefully be a bit more lesurely as well but still expect a bit of craziness.

Equipment Pickup - Sunday, 10:00-2:00

Individuals - Check the Gear registration site first to see if you even need to come. You can mark Donate on the website Sunday if there are items that you do not wish to pick up. Please come on time, not early and not late. Please don't ask for special favors -- get favors from family, friends, or neighbors. A bunch of volunteers have just had 4 really really really big days and we have 12-15,000 items to account for and only a few volunteers to do all of this.

If you do not come and pick up the unsold gear then this means that you do not want any of your unsold items. They will be sold (proceeds to PTSA) or donated to another good cause. If you don't pickup your inventory, it will be donated to a charity organization in TWO weeks. 

Checks will be mailed within a week of the swap, assuming a proper address was provided to mail the check to.

Payment Issues - 1-3 weeks after the Sales

If you have a payment or inventory issue, send Seller ID, your name, inventory number & equipment type to don@skiswap.info. After about 3 weeks, all remaining gear will be donated or sold.

Thank you for participating in our swap whether volunteering, buying, selling or all three.
We will do our very best to make this a great experience.  The many volunteers thank you for your patience and understanding.