Re: Yard Sales/Tag Sales/Garage Sales Help please

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

On 9/29/2014 chickenbutt said:
Yeah, no more garage sales for me either. We just donate it all now. The day of our last sale we only lasted until 10am. Well, ok, my husband did. I think I lasted less than an hour because I'm big on manners and it seems a lot of people are not. I'm a very nice person, but if you push me...all bets are off.

If it weren't bad enough that they wanted to pay a dime for everything, they will show up at 5am, banging on your door. We figured that 7am was early enough to start but, nooooo - there they were banging on the door at 5am. When we were setting up they were pestering us. By 8am I went in the house because I was having a hard time being polite to some of those folks.

This could have been written by me too...your experience was much like mine...thus I had 1 yard sale in my life and said NEVER again.

RedHeadedWench · ‎03-21-2010

On 9/29/2014 chickenbutt said:
I found that it didn't make a lot of difference what I marked anything. Even if it was a brand new, $300, item that was priced at $30, some Neanderthal would offer me a dime for it.

Needless to say, I didn't last long with hosting yard/garage sales. Last time somebody did that I told him 'sure, just a minute while I run over it with my car THEN you can have it for a dime'. ha!

HAHAHAHA!

BTDT! This is why I do not have yard sales any more. I can price something for a quarter and some fool will walk up to me and offer me a dime.

Oh and I have things stolen from yard sales too. Another reason.

Gij Was1 · ‎09-14-2014

On 9/29/2014 Jig Saw said:
On 9/29/2014 sylviahomeatlast said:
On 9/29/2014 scotttie said:
On 9/29/2014 chickenbutt said:
I found that it didn't make a lot of difference what I marked anything. Even if it was a brand new, $300, item that was priced at $30, some Neanderthal would offer me a dime for it.

Needless to say, I didn't last long with hosting yard/garage sales. Last time somebody did that I told him 'sure, just a minute while I run over it with my car THEN you can have it for a dime'. ha!

${#emotions_dlg.lol}$

I have been told that rule of thumb is 10% of the original cost.

That's one reason I don't have garage sales that's what I posted---I just donate too--- easier.

Do you even know how to use the quote feature?