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Yardsales

January 27, 2006 at 1:41 pm | Posted in Yardsales | Leave a comment

How to buy stuff cheap and sell stuff you don’t want for fun and profit.

It is easy to find bargains just search activites for “yardsale.” Sign up for a few and shop til you drop.

If you are selling, you need to do a bit more planning to make the most of your time.

Here is some useful information if you want to host a yardsale:

Yardsales are a fun and profitable way to sell stuff you don’t want anymore in There or real life. There makes it a lot more fun by making easy.

The first thing you will need is a place to show your stuff.

You have a good many options on places you can drop your items to display them:

• PortaZone (this is usually not a very good choice because you can’t schedule events in PortaZone.)
• Funzone
• House or Clubhouse with optional paz outside
• Frontierzone
• Neighborhood lot

A paz will work just fine at Duda Beach, but you are better off using some place where you can schedule a THERE event. There are also open funzones where you can schedule. Just make sure you follow the rules where ever you schedule.

Here are some tips from a yardsale pro, GreenBudGoddess.

Start with advertising

• join all the yard sale groups in my profile
• send an invite to all the groups at the start of your sale AFTER you have set up (because I assure you they will arrive in droves)

Organization is good

• put things for the outdoors together
• plants together
• rugs together etc
• separate interior decor from exterior
• use a tiki flyer and list everything in it in their appropriate categories
• search the auctions and find the lowest price and base YOUR price on those.

If an item is say 3500 in auction I usually go down to 2800-3000 depending on the item and the demand for the item

When you send out your invites only do it once.

Invites go through THERE mail and if people get too many they get mad. I only did it once, I received a nasty email from someone the other night because he said by my inviting twice, I was spamming him. So with MY sales the only multiple invites I do are the place where I live and my 2 sister groups the rest only get one invite.

Schedule your event at a good time.

• Place your event listing early and remember the difference in time zones best time for a sale is between 730 and 1030 pm after dinner.
• Best days are friday night (payday) and Saturdays, I make the most money on those days.

The THERE Flea Market

On Sunday at 5pm est that is an excellent event (when there is no football). The listings for that go into the event listings around 230 pm. You MUST sign up for the set up AND the sale (2 different events.)

Be forewarned!
When you sign up for the set up period so do a lot of other people who come early to get the good deals. I also find that if you have a PortaZone pre set up that you can pull out ready to go in 1 drop you will have better success in being ready for anxious buyers.

I just know that A LOT of people are affected by the costs of auction fees now so people are turning to these yard and neighborhood sales as a sort of protest.