Selling things

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

Cleaning out the last couple of months, both here and at my mom's house, has made it clear we need to make an effort to sell some of the things we are unloading, as they are very nice, mostly household and kitchen items, and some small furniture.

We are planning a garage sale, and getting ready for that. We don't do all that well here, mostly because of the rural location.

I have tried Craig's List, and Ebay as well, and they both have their drawbacks, but considering listing a few things there as well.

We have no consignment shops around here that I can find, so that option is kind of out.

Anyone have any other suggestions I may not have thought of/heard of, to make some money off these things, before we just give them away?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

gidgetgh · ‎03-09-2010

I've sold quite a bit through Facebook yard sale pages.

Why is it, when I have a 50/50 guess at something, I'm always 100% wrong?

lucymo · ‎12-13-2010

@Mominohio Here in my area we have a lot of 'online yard sale' type sites. You just put pictures on, price and it's all local area. We can let them come to our house or meet at a public place. I've sold some items on a few of our sites and I haven't had any problems. I do this with items that I don't want to sell for cheap 'garage sale' prices mostly as people know the price when they message you.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@gidgetgh wrote:
I've sold quite a bit through Facebook yard sale pages.

I've tried this, but not much comes up here locally. We are near a town of about 50,000 people, but the nearest larger city is about 70 miles.

I'm going to search a little harder on this one, and see what I can find. I had kind of given up on it, but will try again, thanks for the reminder.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@lucymo wrote:
@Mominohio Here in my area we have a lot of 'online yard sale' type sites. You just put pictures on, price and it's all local area. We can let them come to our house or meet at a public place. I've sold some items on a few of our sites and I haven't had any problems. I do this with items that I don't want to sell for cheap 'garage sale' prices mostly as people know the price when they message you.

I've been searching for local things like this here, and I'm not finding anything that is productive at all. I'll keep looking though, and thanks!

ID2 · ‎06-25-2012

I don't know why the OP feels she won't do well having a garage sale since she lives in a rural area. So do I and every year we have our garage sale we usually do VERY well! We have "customers" that come back yearly and clean us out! Does your area have a community for sale items on Facebook? We sell a lot on there too.

"Pure Michigan"

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

@Mominohio wrote:
@gidgetgh wrote:
I've sold quite a bit through Facebook yard sale pages.
I've tried this, but not much comes up here locally. We are near a town of about 50,000 people, but the nearest larger city is about 70 miles.

I'm going to search a little harder on this one, and see what I can find. I had kind of given up on it, but will try again, thanks for the reminder.

Heck, that's a major metropolis compared to where we are!

ANewHue · ‎11-21-2011

Many years ago I had my first and only yard sale. I had many great items most brand new with tags still on them. Designer baby clothing and many unique house goods (into the arts). don't know where these people came from but they wanted everything for free. By noon my patience wore out and I packed up everything and closed the door. All the clothes were donated to orphans .

I am now in the position again to get rid of things and I doubt I will be going down that road again. I was thinking about trying one of those new apps to sell things. I am in a small city near to NYC but the traffic I got was horrible, these people were not from around here for sure.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

April 1st kicks off flea market season in my area. We have several locations; both indoor and outdoor, where people set up on the weekends, and sell their stuff.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@RedTop wrote:
April 1st kicks off flea market season in my area. We have several locations; both indoor and outdoor, where people set up on the weekends, and sell their stuff.

We have a once a month flea market at a local fairgrounds, and it gets pretty good traffic. I had considered doing that, but it had slipped my mind recently. Thanks for that reminder @RedTop.

I'll check on the cost of a space and think about that again.