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Suzanne
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Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
How do you know what to price things at? Do you make it up? Do you research? I have so many things and I have no idea how to price them for the sale this weekend
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
you have to price stuff to sell. Are you willing to schlep it all back in the house or put it to the curb if it doesn't sell?
People don't want to pay anywhere near 1/2 price for a garage sale item no mater how good the condition.
clothes can be one or two dollars a piece, good purses or costumes jewelry $3-5.
Knick knacks-even collectibles like snow babies $3-4 each
Furniture you can go to bigger numbers & let people make you an offer.
Baby & kid stuff needs to be CHEAP-I hit garage sales every saturday morning about 3 months out of the year & almost every sale has TONS of baby stuff.
It needs to be priced right & grandparents or other people that provide child care will buy it.
Power tools, fishing hunting & sporting gear all sells well, you can price stuff at about 1/3 of its retail if its mint.
Books, DVDs, CDs-$1 each
Tell me what else you have & I'll give you more prices. The key to success is selling volume. The last yard sale I had we sold over $800 in one day.
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JldDolphin
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
I totally agree with Kelly. You have to price to sell. You can make really good money. If someone is going to walk away and not pay your price say "make me an offer". That it what we did the last time we had one. Then whatever didn't go went into the trash or we kept for now. GL! 
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Sandy55
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
I agree with the others!
Price it to sell.
I have so much junk..I should sell it.
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| Posted 10/9/08 8:56 PM |
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Goobster
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
I just did this recently with a lot of my stuff. I priced it to sell. Many items i priced a dollar or two, or came down to a dollar. I really wanted to get rid of it and just have someone else enjoy it finally since I didn't want it anymore.
Sure I could have made a lot more, but I made $170 on stuff I never used and someone else will give it a good home. I def could have made a lot more but some things people just won't pay more for, no matter what it really cost.
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rkoenke
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
DON'T PUT ANYTHING ON YOUR LAWN!
MY LAWN GOT DESTROYED FROM DOING THIS!
(my $0.02)
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| Posted 10/10/08 8:57 AM |
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Suzanne
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
Posted by KellyFG
you have to price stuff to sell. Are you willing to schlep it all back in the house or put it to the curb if it doesn't sell?
People don't want to pay anywhere near 1/2 price for a garage sale item no mater how good the condition.
clothes can be one or two dollars a piece, good purses or costumes jewelry $3-5.
Knick knacks-even collectibles like snow babies $3-4 each
Furniture you can go to bigger numbers & let people make you an offer.
Baby & kid stuff needs to be CHEAP-I hit garage sales every saturday morning about 3 months out of the year & almost every sale has TONS of baby stuff.
It needs to be priced right & grandparents or other people that provide child care will buy it.
Power tools, fishing hunting & sporting gear all sells well, you can price stuff at about 1/3 of its retail if its mint.
Books, DVDs, CDs-$1 each
Tell me what else you have & I'll give you more prices. The key to success is selling volume. The last yard sale I had we sold over $800 in one day.
Wow, what did you sell to make so much!?!?! That is amazing.
I have a lot of household type stuff that I priced at .50-$1. The things we were unsure of was the home items, such as faucets, mirrors, light fixtures, chandeliers, etc. We are also not sure what to price the vaccums we are selling.
What about picture frames and phot albums? I have some nice ones but just don't need. Some are still in the boxes brand new.
I also have a nice framed picture for a wall.
I am sure I priced some things too low but I need them out of my attic already. I do not want to have anything left at the end of the day.
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sunnyplus3
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Re: Having a garage sale and I have a pricing question
my DH had tons of power tools & we had some furniture & I sold all of the stuff I had from when I was a partylite consultant.
You can price stuff at whatever & then make a MAKE ME AN OFFER sign & be prepared to get haggled.
GOOD LUCK!
Don't forget to put an ad on Craigslist!
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