When you are gearing up for your garage sale, don't wait until the night before to go through your stuff.Keep your house clutter free all year by starting a give-away box of stuff that you don't use anymore.Toys and baby clothes sell quickly, so keep only one sentimental article of baby clothing and offer children rewards throughout the year to get rid of some of their old toys.A few weeks before the sale, organize and price the items collected over the year.Then, after that, go through the entire house looking for items to sell.That's when you can bargain with yourself to get rid of other things.Take the time to sticker it.It is so easy just to have a fifty-cent table, but when a buyer brings something to you, you might not remember what table it came from.Children are notorious for picking things up and caring them around, then putting them down anywhere.People are much more likely to buy something if they know how much it costs right away.Some are too shy to ask.A sticker on everything solves this.Stickers are also good at a multifamily sale so you know who gets the money.One family could agree to blue stickers and another to yellow.There are also prepriced garage sale stickers available that make makes pricing fast and efficient.It will pay off to group things together in ways that make sense.Put toys together with older children's items, tools in one area, and household items in another.People are usually looking for specific things at garage sales and they don't want to hunt for a long time, so by grouping things together they are more likely to buy two things instead of one.When people go to a garage sale, they expect to pay low prices.This means that unless something is new or a big item such as a bicycle, they don't want to pay more than a couple dollars for it, and most of the time not more than a few quarters.The best way to price is to decide if you would consider it a good buy if you came to the sale.It is better to price low than high because at the end of the day most of the items will be given to charity.For every item given away, there is lost profit.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Garage Sale - Price to Sell
When you are gearing up for your garage sale, don't wait until the night before to go through your stuff.Keep your house clutter free all year by starting a give-away box of stuff that you don't use anymore.Toys and baby clothes sell quickly, so keep only one sentimental article of baby clothing and offer children rewards throughout the year to get rid of some of their old toys.A few weeks before the sale, organize and price the items collected over the year.Then, after that, go through the entire house looking for items to sell.That's when you can bargain with yourself to get rid of other things.Take the time to sticker it.It is so easy just to have a fifty-cent table, but when a buyer brings something to you, you might not remember what table it came from.Children are notorious for picking things up and caring them around, then putting them down anywhere.People are much more likely to buy something if they know how much it costs right away.Some are too shy to ask.A sticker on everything solves this.Stickers are also good at a multifamily sale so you know who gets the money.One family could agree to blue stickers and another to yellow.There are also prepriced garage sale stickers available that make makes pricing fast and efficient.It will pay off to group things together in ways that make sense.Put toys together with older children's items, tools in one area, and household items in another.People are usually looking for specific things at garage sales and they don't want to hunt for a long time, so by grouping things together they are more likely to buy two things instead of one.When people go to a garage sale, they expect to pay low prices.This means that unless something is new or a big item such as a bicycle, they don't want to pay more than a couple dollars for it, and most of the time not more than a few quarters.The best way to price is to decide if you would consider it a good buy if you came to the sale.It is better to price low than high because at the end of the day most of the items will be given to charity.For every item given away, there is lost profit.
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