My guess is that the OP has no claim to the furniture so is using this bouncy to set the stage for being justified in stealing it.
What I got out of it was the delightful suggestion, "early birds pay double."
I dunno why I never thought of that, those years that I had garage sales, when I lived in Lincoln.
There was one time I was setting things up outside for a sale advertised as starting at 9:00 a.m.
This was about 6:00 a.m. on a summer morning; I wanted to have everything all set out and displayed in a good manner, by the time the sale opened.
I was still unloading boxes and setting things up on tables, in a hurry because it was going slower than I thought it should, when one of the locally-known re-sellers parked in front, and strode up to the front yard. It was 6:00 a.m.--three hours before the advertised start of the sale.
She was a Vinca-looking woman, and started going through boxes of stuff, and asking me questions--the persistent one being, "will you come down on this?"
At first, I politely mentioned that yeah, I would, after the sale'd been going on a while, like maybe mid-afternoon. But for right now, well, I was trying to get the best price possible. I gently suggested that if she wished to haggle, as the sale wound down would be the best time, and so she should come back later.
She insisted her time was valuable, and she didn't have time to come back.
"And these things might be gone by then; will you come down on this?"
I could sense she
really wanted about six items, antiquities that weren't mine (I was just selling them for a friend), and which were already priced far below their "book" values.
There was a garden hose running water in the side-yard, and I went over to pick up, advancing towards the avaricious old bat as if I were going to spray her.
She left.
Everybody else plays by the rules, showing up at, and after, the scheduled opening time; I dunno why these "early birds," these greedy windfall profiteers, the re-sellers, think they're exempt from following the rules of decent and civilized behavior.