Starting A Garage-Sale Enterprise

Garage Sale Skills

Did you know you can adopt a certain strategy to
ncrease your profits at a garage sale? The best
solution is something that most people should do
in the first place is prepare yourself in advance.
In other words don’t wait until the day before your
sale to think of the stuff you want to get rid of.

Of course the bigger your yard sale or garage
sale is, the more time you need to prepare in
order for it to work. If it is a huge sale you might
consider being more than one doing the selling.
Here are pointers that have known to work well in
the past so that you get even more money.

1. Remember that if you do a general garage
sale that people from all ages will come to snoop
around your junk so get rid of various things that
you don’t need. If you sell kids stuff well you
might not go far. Take a good look at what you could sell. Who knows, your old washer collecting dust
may be worth a lot to someone who just so happens to be looking for one of these for years.

2. Make sure you are not selling too high. People who are seasoned garage sale snoopers know if
prices are too high. For example if your sofa’s asking price is 30$ more than the store well there a fat
chance that you will sell it. If you realize that the customer’s eyes pop out when you tell them the price,
reduce your asking price otherwise, you’ll be stuck with your appliance for another year.

3. If you know where your odd looking lamp came from, where you got it, where it’s coming from, you
might have a better chance of a sale because antique buyers just love that stuff.

4.If it is junk that you are selling and you really, really want to get rid of your stuff don’t worry to lower
your price even more if a customer asks you if you will only take so much. As the saying goes,
someone’s junk is another one’s treasure. Your price should always be less than in the stores.

5. Giving your clients a little more than they paid for is always appreciated like a little gift. You got rid
of your old unwanted stuff and they leave with more than they bargained for in the first place.

6. Don’t hide the objects you want to sell. The whole point of a garage sale is to sell your stuff. Don’t
put a table lamp in front of your transformer they’ll never see the robot. Just use logic and think of
how you like it when you go to a garage sale and where you can find what you want in a flash.

7. Advertise your garage sale. Call some friends or print a couple of sheets and post them here and
there. Plus on the day of the sale take flashy
cardboard and say to the world that your junk is
for sale.

Finally, a last thing to remember is that the client
is always right. Plus the friendlier, the better you
have a chance to making a sale. Remember in
garage sale word to mouth helps a lot and the
better the reviews, the better chance for you.

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