...I swear I looked for this answer but didn't find anything, but I strongly feel like I missed it somewhere, so apologies in advance if this is a dumb question!

I know the CW pawn shop is closed now and will open for the CW sale later this month, but a) are we able to sell items to the shop, so that they'll be available for purchase from the pawn shop once it opens, and b) if so, how?

I found the pawn shop, but when I click on the CW shop link, it goes to a page with an error message saying that all things CW have migrated over to the new site. I have searched the new site and any CW FAQs I could find, but nothing tells you where the CW pawn shop is now, assuming it's somewhere on the new site.

(Also, inserting "new" in the spot where the "www" would go in the now-defunct CW pawn shop URL doesn't work; I tried that.)

you need to click on the sell item link n_n

ooh ok I see it now, yeah, I knew this would turn out to be a stupid question—I completely missed the “sell item” part and thought you had to be on the specific CW shop page to see it… Thank you so much for your help!

not stupid at all, it's a tiny button and very easy to miss ^^ glad I could help happy holidays!