Planning a Set Sale? That’s Our Specialty!

Ready Set Recycle.com – a web-based company that recycles anything and everything from the show business industry. We offer a full line of services including fixed price sale or Auction. We can come to your studio to run your sale or online auction. If your stuff is in storage, we can help find a suitable pop-up venue. Or sell the contents the trailers from where they are. We can run your entire sale, or you can just rent space on our site to post everything and or hire us to do the social media. We have over 100,000 followers on our socials and for many larger shows we get millions of views!

Since 2021 Ready Set Recycle has run set sales for 50 productions in Toronto. In 2024 alone Ready Set Recycle saved the equivalent of over 170- 53 foot trailers of sets, props and costumes, furniture, set dec out of the landfill. Our customer base includes the film community and suppliers, theatre companies, small businesses, vintage shops, high schools, universities, and the general public. By the end of each set sale from 95 to 100 percent was sold for reuse or recycled (i.e. given away) resulting in very little waste. In all cases the producers saw revenues instead of just bin costs.

Set Sale options:

SET SALE & AUCTION OPTIONS:

OPTION’S 1 & 2:

Option#1: WE RUN YOUR SET SALE OR AUCTION of your inventory RIGHT FROM YOUR STUDIO.

We come to your location and set up shop right there in your studio or lock up! Our sales staff arrive at your location armed with our sandwich boards, debit, and credit card machines and a cash float. You pay the rent. We will insure you and the landlord for 5 Million in general liability and away we go! Your take : 50% of the proceeds.

OPTION 2 : We find you a pop up location for your sale!

You can ship your trailers to us or hire us to handle it; you unpack and display your goods or hire us to do it for you. Then we take it from there! Trained staff price and  photograph everything and post it all on READY SET RECYCLE.com, this is done at Ready Set Recycles cost. Once that is done, the social media campaign begins, also at Ready Set Recycles cost. We have over 100,000 followers on our socials. We will create numerous reels during your sale.  In 2023 and 2024 our socials had well over 7 million views.

Staffing the sale: This is done at Ready Set Recycle’s cost.

We will handle all payments, giving you cash reports on a weekly and provide prompt payment to you. We accept  cash, VISA, MC, AMEX, and debit.

GIVEAWAY DAYS: We will also be on hand for several days, post set sale, to coordinate give always of unsold items! We do this at no extra charge.

VENUE RENTAL: IF we need to find you a pop up venue for your sale the cost of rent for said venue will be deducted from your share of the proceeds, if Ready Set Recycle pays for it.

Costs to your production:

CARTAGE COSTS: The cost of trucking items will be at your cost.

CREW COSTs: For unloading inventory and displaying it for sale and for the wrap out will be at your cost. This will be paid for by Ready Set Recycle but the full amounts will be deducted from your share of the proceeds. The rate per crew member is $38.00 per hour for an 8 hour day.

DISPOSAL COSTS: Labor costs and disposal costs for unsellable items rubbish and broken items as well as and space clean up will be deducted from your share of the proceeds

OPTION 3: PURCHASE A SET SALE LISTING ON OUR WEBSITE

DO-IT-YOURSELF SET SALE!

We can create a category just for your show on our site. Once the category is completed, you have direct access to create as many listings as you wish, with photographs and descriptions, and pricing options, as well the details of your sale – where, when, etc. Hyperlinks from our home page feature your set sale. Buyers and production designers and the general public will have easy access to information about your sale.

MARKETING: You can also hire Ready Set Recycle to do your social media. You may pay by ad clicks starting at .05 cent per click.  We can also generate and distribute a press release. Ready Set Recycle is in the media regularly having had feature articles in most Toronto newspapers and TV stations.

PHOTOGRAPHY: You create and post photos of your items on the site directly or hire us to do it for you.

TIMELINE: You can purchase wrap sale listings as far in advance as you would like.

EDITING INFORMATION: Information on the site can be edited as needed. So, for instance, if you don’t want phone calls from every Joe Blow two weeks prior to the wrap, asking how much the antique car is going to be, simply list all your items with a “SALE DATE, TO BE DETERMINED” or whatever else you wish. Hey, maybe you won’t even need to hold a sale at all.

YOUR COST: Pricing is based on the number of weeks your ads will run and of the number of photos listed. Contact us for details and to set up your sale.

Want to get started or ask a question? Call Grant at 416 836-0710 or email Info@readysetrecycle.com

Option 4: Do you have a bunch of sets on trailers that you may end up dumping?

Ready Set Recycle has found new homes for over 100 trailers full of scenery, saving the producers a lot of money that would have been spent emptying them into landfills. Here’s how it works. If you have a detailed inventory of what is on each trailer it makes it easier to find them new homes on new shows. Get together whatever paperwork and photos of what you have of what’s on each trailer and send them to us at info@readysetrecycle.com. We will create a post on Ready Set Recycle then get the word out to customers.

Together we will set a price for the contents of each trailer when we find a buyer we split the proceeds. YOUR TAKE: 50% of the sale price. Ideally, the buyer will assume the cartage costs for the trailer to be delivered to them and for the return cost of delivering the trailer to the shipping company’s yard. In the case where the cartage costs aren’t being covered by the buyer then you may have to assume those costs. Regardless of how that part of it goes our brokerage fee of 40% of the sale still applies.

If you end up having to just give the contents away and the customer covers the cartage costs you will remit to Ready Set Recycle $750.00 per trailer that was repurposed. If you have to assume said cartage costs you will remit $500.00 per trailer to Ready Set Recycle.  This is far cheaper than hiring a crew and ordering disposal bins. That option can easily exceed $2500.00 per trailer plus cartage costs. Our way is pretty economical and you save money plus you avoid adding volume to a landfill. For more information email us at info@readysetrecycle.com or call 416 836-0710.

OPTION 5: RUN YOUR OWN SALE AND LET READY SET RECYCLE RUN A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN FOR YOU!

Ready Set Recycle has over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND followers and that number increases every day.. In 2023 our sales had well over three million social media views. You may pay by ad clicks starting at .05 cent per click or by social media views. We can also generate and distribute a press release. Ready Set Recycle is in the media regularly having had feature articles in most Toronto newspapers and TV and radio stations.

Want to get started or ask a question? Call Grant at 416 836-0710 or email info@readysetrecycle.com