primitives discuss rummage sales

[franksolich]

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This is a few weeks old, but Skins's island is pretty boring today.

jellen  (192 posts)        Wed Jul-29-09 09:18 PM
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good rummages

Can you tell me what are a few necessities for a successful rummage? We're having a sale this weekend.

sandnsea  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jul-29-09 10:54 PM
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1. Price Tags

It's also okay to have dime tables or dollar tables, but for heavens sake price stuff in some way or other. Nothing irks me more than having to ask how much something costs which means if you don't buy it you're cheap.

I also did good at my last sale by giving something away. It was more an observation than a strategy, but I noticed that if I gave a kid the silly toy they picked up, it would tip the parent towards buying whatever they were thinking about. I'd have given the kid the silly toy anyway, it's just something I noticed.

And people who were buying for an adult kid's new apartment or something, I'd offer a bunch of stuff I really didn't want for free, and then they'd inevitably buy a few items that I might not have sold otherwise.

I also had a little collectible corner that attracted a lot of attention. Oh, and talk to people, talk talk talk. I buy more often if somebody has been chatty with me and found that true in reverse too. Not pushy this is such a great product, but just general how's the weather, tell stories about different items, stuff like that.

My daughter and I made $2-300, somewhere in there. Maybe more. We ran it for two days.

The primitive made "$2-300" on junk that cost the primitive ten times, at least, that amount to begin with.  If the primitive didn't buy junk in the first place, the primitive wouldn't have to be disposing of it at ten cents, or less, on the dollar.

The vindictive primitive, shopping around for a new hip:

Vinca  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-31-09 12:13 PM
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3. A couple of our local churches have rummage sales and instead of pricing everything, they have it by donation only. One of the ladies told me they make more money by donation.

[JohnnyReb]

Rummage sale:...or "What's the best way to sell the stuff I've stolen?"

[GOBUCKS]

The method I use is to put that stuff in a plastic bag, and set it out on a Tuesday or Friday beside my trash cans. It's gone before I know it.
Anything that's useful, I put in the same plastic bags, and set it out on my porch once a month, when Goodwill comes.

I don't understand why you would do a couple of days hard work, allow a bunch of riffraff on your property to case your security system, come out of it with one or two hundred dollars, and still have a bunch of junk to dispose of. The landfill is your friend.

[franksolich]

The method I use is to put that stuff in a plastic bag, and set it out on a Tuesday or Friday beside my trash cans. It's gone before I know it.
Anything that's useful, I put in the same plastic bags, and set it out on my porch once a month, when Goodwill comes.

I don't understand why you would do a couple of days hard work, allow a bunch of riffraff on your property to case your security system, come out of it with one or two hundred dollars, and still have a bunch of junk to dispose of. The landfill is your friend.

My attitude, and my practice, exactly.