Tips for selling at garage sales
February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The two essential ingredients for a successful garage sale are some decent items that people will want to buy and, of course, customers.
- Advertising your garage sale can take place in local shops, putting up posters, leafleting the neighbourhood etc. Make sure you include date, time and location. I know it sounds obvious but its amazing how often one of those key items of information get missed off publicity material!
- Another thought is to list the date, time and address in Craigslist under the Garage Sales heading. It’s free to do and effective. It is also worth listing the types of item that you will be selling so that people looking for specific items may come looking.
As far as selling individual items is concerned there are a few more useful tips:
- Instead of people rifling through loads of books for 25c each, why not divide them up into bundles of, say 10 – 15 books in a similar category and charge $2 – $3 dollars per bundle? They will be ready to carry away and neater to store.
- If you have loads of low value items you could advertise your sale as everything for “50c unless marked”. That should attract interest on your publicity and save you the time of marking up individual prices.
- Alternatively, you can use boxes that store items all of the same price to save labelling. Watch out for things getting mixed up as people browse though!
All of these steps will make your garage sale appear more professional….making it more likely that customers will keep coming back to future events.
