Yard sale help
06-13-2013, 04:07 AM
#11
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As a collector of older machines, I may just buy it because it's $20 - at $75 or $100 it would have to be a type of machine I'm interested in.
If (When) I sell my machines, I would start high on the machine and let them haggle with me...that's half the fun of garage sales. If someone is interested early in the day and offers me something too low - I'd take their name and number and call them later in the day. It will almost be like a silent auction if you get several names.
As far as the fabric - you want to get rid of - $1.00 a yard or sell by the pound.
Good luck!
Nan
If (When) I sell my machines, I would start high on the machine and let them haggle with me...that's half the fun of garage sales. If someone is interested early in the day and offers me something too low - I'd take their name and number and call them later in the day. It will almost be like a silent auction if you get several names.
As far as the fabric - you want to get rid of - $1.00 a yard or sell by the pound.
Good luck!
Nan
Last edited by quiltinghere; 06-13-2013 at 04:10 AM.
06-13-2013, 04:41 AM
#12
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One suggestion that you may have already thought of. We just had a yard sale and we posted pictures of as much as we could and also listed as many of the items as we could and many people told us they came because of those things. This was on Craigs List. We also got messages after the sale and sold some of the bigger ticket items that people saw and couldn't come that day. Just a thought.
06-13-2013, 06:12 AM
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I go to garage sales, I don't have them. My sister used to have them often (as much as the small town permitted). If she wanted to close up early on the last day, she would have a paper bag sale. Smaller bags like you get from the grocery stores were $1(?), next size like the paper bags were $2 and up. Everything you could get into the bag. She used masking tape and would run a marker down the strip. The color of the marker told her the price of the bag. The last day often was an "OBO" day. After that, she would take inventory of what was left and the prices, mark them half price and take to Goodwill or Salvation Army and get a receipt for the donation. She never took anything back into the house. Clothing was often just donated to the women's shelter.
06-13-2013, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Tartan
I would put the Singer at $50? Figure in cost of the bags and try $2 a yard? You can always reduce the price later in the day or if someone is interested you can knock a few bucks of the machine.
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