Once Upon A Child

I like this location! They have a great selection (probably the best out of all the Twin Cities OUC stores) of toys and «equipment» (carriers, strollers), the staff are really helpful, and they have good deals. I just don’t love that their selection of boys clothes is SO small compared to the girls selection, but that’s at every store I shop at — so, nothing new.

I drive out of my way to come to this particular location because they always take majority of what i bring in! Other locations hardly pay me anything, the last two times i brought my daughters clothes in i came out with $ 75 & $ 88.
Now i do understand they dont give you what you paid initially, but i am a deal seeker and get designer clothes on sale or at marshalls, ebay, or during sale events at like gymboree and crazy 8. So the stuff i bring in is pretty pricey and usually designer, but i dont personally pay full price to begin with!
I like to set her clothes aside at the end of each season and bring them in as a whole so that is why they give me so much at once. I am never disappointed !
ps. If you have something of high value i would look to sell it on ebay or somewhere else. .

This review is for the store, not the consignment experience. I haven’t tried consigning clothing at this location.
The one upside is that I was able to find a handful of decent items of clothing for my 6-​year-​old fairly cheaply (it helped that they were having a sale at the time). But the selection was pretty meh. The shoes, in particular, were in terrible shape. Given what other reviewers have said about how picky they apparently are at this location about which clothes they accept, I would have expected much nicer clothes and toys. We’re also in the market for baby stuff (high chairs, etc) and the ones I saw there were not anything I’d spend money on.
In addition:
— The store is messy.
— The staff are unfriendly.
— When I asked about changing rooms, the woman said «bathroom,» and turned her back on me. The bathrooms are at the back of a dark little corridor and were not particularly clean. There was literally nowhere to even put clothes down or hang them. I ended up just holding a giant stack of clothes, trying to keep stuff separate and take things on and off hangers without dropping them, while my son tried on a few pairs of shorts.
Not worth the drive.

same as the other reviewer. they are picky about what they take, which makes no sense since the clothes they sell are moslty not that great. same with toys and books.

I have a grudge against this Once Upon a Child. every single time I’ve brought clothes here to sell, I’ve walked out of the store with almost everything I brought in. I buy most of my kids clothes at boutiques, Hanna Anderson or Old Navy so I’m not bringing them recycled K-​mart stuff. I usually end up selling his stuff on Ebay. I’ve never found much in the way of apparel for him either. My friend gets all her kids clothes at another location of this store and she swears by them. Her boy is always dressed adorably and he has more shoes than I do, so maybe it’s just this location.
To add to the misery, the store is usually messy and the staff aren’t that nice either.