How PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com Works

PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com is a listing service designed to connect buyers and sellers of new, sample and used designer wedding dresses.

Why not potentially save thousands of dollars on your wedding dress? And, if you've already worn your dream dress, share it with another happy bride and use the money for something practical like more honeymoon souvenirs!

We have over 3800 wedding dresses listed for sale on our site - and easily searchable by key criteria like designer, price, and location.

Our site was created with buyers and sellers in mind. Our key differences are:

Benefits to Wedding Dress Sellers

1. Unlike other wedding dress websites, your email address is not placed directly on the site. This helps prevent unwanted spam email from filling your mailbox.
2. Different from many other resale websites, emails are filtered to remove emails send from known scam addresses. This helps prevent you from ever receiving a scam inquiry in the first place. (See our Important Seller Information page for more details).
3. Unlike Ebay or newspaper classifieds, your listing does not expire for 12 full months, or until your dress sells (whichever comes first). And the fee is only $25 USD.
4. There is no limit to the amount of description you can give about your dress - and you can post up to five pictures - allowing you to give buyers a great idea of how fantastic your dress is. (You can also post more than 5 images for an additional fee).
5. Unlike wedding dress consignment, your gown isn't limited to one location and only one source of potential buyers.
6. You ONLY pay the listing fee, no commission is charged on the sale price.
7. You can also list your veil and accessories on the site, in addition to your wedding dress.

A June 2009 Wall Street Journal article independently reviewed preownedweddingdresses.com with other wedding dress resale sites and concluded that "PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com provided the most qualified buyers quickly."

To create a listing, start here.

Benefits to Wedding Dress Buyers

1. Dresses can be searched by designer, keyword, size, silhouette, neckline, size and location. You can chose as many or as few criteria as you want - making it easy for you to browse through all of our dresses and find the perfect one. Search Now!
2. Sellers only pay a listing fee (not a percentage of the sale price). This allows you to get the best possible price.
3. All dress listings contained detailed information about the dress and all listings are posted in the same format. This lets you easily compare dresses to help you make your decision.
4. Weekly updates of new dress listings are available by (free) mailing list subscription. To the minute updates are available via New This Week page rss feed. 

We recommend buyers and sellers use escrow.com

Escrow.com acts as a neutral 3rd party intermediary – inserting themselves into the transaction process – and thereby – protecting the buyer and the seller.

With escrow.com,

Buyers are protected because:
• Escrow.com tracks the shipped merchandise and verifies it was delivered (assuring the wedding dress will ship before the seller receives the money).
• The Seller isn’t paid until the Buyer accepts the merchandise, or the inspection period expires (assuring that the item is as described).

Sellers are protected because:
• Escrow.com confirms when the Buyer receives merchandise.
• The Seller is authorized to ship only after Escrow.com verifies good funds (assuring the seller will get her money).