Tenzo
Chicago Lakeshore
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Be sure to come by German Village this weekend and buy all the antiquie stuff I am selling.
Books with publish dates of 1860
A pre-electricity dressing mirror
1800's drop leaf table
Anitque plates
Beer Stains
Wine racks, tables, chairs
Some antique networking equipment
And a bunch of other stuff from the 1800's including a hair dryer, jig saw, 120 pounds of portland cement, patio pavers and my neighbor's dog that never stops barking.
turbo ninja
Crumb Bus, Oh.
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We'll be hawking housewares made redundant by our wedding gifts, zombie electronics (work fine, just old technology) and some furniture. I hear there are some very eager buyers prowling the streets long before the official start time, but they're just going to have to wait for my lazy ass to get out of bed and set everything up.
I'm not getting up at 6am so some mouthbreather can argue with me about the price of an old beer mug.
blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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turbo ninja wrote >>
I'm not getting up at 6am so some mouthbreather can argue with me about the price of an old beer mug.
For the VV version, I recall chasing some doofuses off my porch an hour before the sale began. YES I got up early and dragged everything out onto the porch, but now I'm making coffee & eating breakfast & that doesn't mean it's ok to open my gate, walk onto my porch, and lift up the blankets and tarps I have placed over my belongings to indicate "the sale has not yet begun".
Me: What are you doing?
Them: We're just looking.
Me: We're not ready to sell anything yet.
Them: (angrily) I SAID we were just LOOKING! Besides, we put up a bunch of signs around the neighborhood. You'll probably get a lot of business because of OUR hard work!
Then they stormed off the porch, through the gate, across the street, and sat on the porch across the street and glared at us all day. Funny, I never noticed they were my neighbors before. Suck it, oh neighbor!
joev
Merion Village
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My favorites are the hagglers. I marked 25 cents because that's what I want for it. I'm not interested in change any smaller than a quarter. If I take 20 cents, you're actually giving me an errand to roll my change. 25 cents or it's going to Goodwill.
Some folks thrive on haggling, like there's some unrequited genetic need to act like you're in a Moroccan spice market.
blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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joev wrote >>
My favorites are the hagglers. I marked 25 cents because that's what I want for it. I'm not interested in change any smaller than a quarter. If I take 20 cents, you're actually giving me an errand to roll my change. 25 cents or it's going to Goodwill.
Some folks thrive on haggling, like there's some unrequited genetic need to act like you're in a Moroccan spice market.
I SO lack the haggling gene. I hate haggling and getting low-balled just pisses me off. It's probably why I always got lousy deals in India & I'd rather just give my possessions away.
Tenzo
Chicago Lakeshore
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I've never done this before. So for average stuff I'll just have some big bins that say 25 cents, $1 and $5. At the end of the day, if I don't sell it, I'll use the bins to haul it down the street to goodwill.
I have no idea what to sell the drop leaf table and mirror with sconces for candles. I sold a $2,000 print for $25 once so I really suck at pricing. Think I'll just mark them both with a list of prices and times.
Now = $500
11:00 = $400
12:00 = $300
1:00 = $200
2:00 = $100
What is the high end for these sales?
drew
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I really don't think there's any 'high end' for these things... it's mostly just what you want from your offerings.
If, say, I wanted $100 for something, I'd list it for $125. If someone then gave me an offer for less than $100, I usually would tell them to come back towards the end of the sale (because there's the possibility that someone else would offer $100 or more).
blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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I've found it works best if you just try to get rid of some stuff and make a little cash, instead of treating it like a miniature antique store. If you have items that are worth a lot of money, why not run an ad on craigslist & take your time & get the price you feel you deserve? To each their own though. No harm in just throwing a big ol' price on it & seeing if anyone bites. We invited some friends over & sat up some chairs & a cooler of beer & a grill and made a party out of it. And occasionally someone would come up & give us money & we'd have one less thing to drag back into the house. It made for a pretty fun party, now that I think about it.
joev
Merion Village
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Tenzo wrote >>
I've never done this before. So for average stuff I'll just have some big bins that say 25 cents, $1 and $5. At the end of the day, if I don't sell it, I'll use the bins to haul it down the street to goodwill.
I have no idea what to sell the drop leaf table and mirror with sconces for candles. I sold a $2,000 print for $25 once so I really suck at pricing. Think I'll just mark them both with a list of prices and times.
Now = $500
11:00 = $400
12:00 = $300
1:00 = $200
2:00 = $100
What is the high end for these sales?
I wonder what would happen if you increased the price incrementally rather than decreased it. Other way around and you just incentivize potential buyers to hem and haw all day and probably find something else to spend their money on.
Tenzo
Chicago Lakeshore
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lifeliberty
Here
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it's my understanding that it is a garage sale. something like you are only allowed to have a yard sale on this one day if you live within GV.
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