Garage Sale Discussion for selling stockpiles

I have been searching this thread for what seems like at least an hour! I am trying to find an example of a Craigslist ad. I have a big sale coming up this week and I really want to get something posted ASAP! I was able to find one link but it didn't work anymore. I promise to save a copy of it and share when others ask.

Quote from shig : I have been searching this thread for what seems like at least an hour! I am trying to find an example of a Craigslist ad. I have a big sale coming up this week and I really want to get something posted ASAP! I was able to find one link but it didn't work anymore. I promise to save a copy of it and share when others ask.

Just had this ad on Craigslist a couple of days ago.
It was pulled for some reason. Never had a problem before. I only change the dates, but use the same text every time. Anybody have an idea what went wrong?



"Coupon Shoppers Stockpile Sale" & Monthly Indoor Community Yard Sale
This Friday the 2nd of August inside the
Ajax Turner Senior Center
953 Clark St
Friday August 2nd from 8:00 am – 1:30 pm
Located inside the Ajax Turner Senior Center. <br>953 Clark Street, off Greenwood Avenue.

I will be participating with a lot of other vendors in the "Monthly Center Yard Sale"
Are you trying to stretch your dollar these days?

This sale is perfect for you. You already know what a Yard Sale is, but you may be asking yourself "What is a Stockpile Sale"?

I’m using A LOT of coupons to purchase Name Brand household and personal hygiene items at low cost. That’s how I am passing these savings on to you. No need to clip coupons, drive to 6 different stores to match sales-price to coupon, stand in line to check out. I have done all this for you already.
Different items are added constantly, depending on the coupons I’m using and the sales in different stores. Mostly Deodorants, shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, detergents…. & other Hygiene, Grocery and Personal Products.
These items are all brand NEW and are priced well below retail cost.
Come by and check it out.
For an itemized list of available items & the possibility to reserve some, please contact me as soon as possible!

Quote from GoHalos : I priced staples brand at $1 and HP at $2 but it still takes the right person to take it. I don't think I could get $3. It's true that staples reg price is $9 or more but it is regularly a rebate item at no more than $1 after rebate. Has to be a reason it's always on rebate.......... like even staples can't move it w/o a rebate. It's just too easy to get pix printed at wags/cvs/riteaid/walmart, etc.

I think the bigger problem is most people just buy cheap printers so they don't have a printer at home that would support printing pictures at a decent quality.

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Quote from OleMissGal78 : I'm in desperate need to have a sale - the garage is bursting at the seams! haven't had a sale since early May since it's been so freaking hot here, and my garage gets the morning sun. So as soon as the sun rises above the tree lines, I'm roasting in my garage. School here starts back on 8/20. I was thinking about doing a sale the Friday and Saturday before 8/17 & 8/18, but then thought that a lot of people would be doing last minute BTS shopping. Although our tax free weekend for school supplies and clothes is this weekend. So I'm not sure if I should go ahead with the 17th & 18th, or if I should wait until the following weekend, the 24th & 25th. The following weekend is Labor Day weekend, and we'll be most likely going out of town. And then the weekend after that, my parents are coming down to visit us for a week, so I'll be in mad prep mode trying to get the house ready. So the question is... what weekend would you go with?

I'd go with the first weekend that has good weather, cause you don't know what will happen the next week.

Quote from heikejohn : Just had this ad on Craigslist a couple of days ago. It was pulled for some reason. Never had a problem before. I only change the dates, but use the same text every time. Anybody have an idea what went wrong? "Coupon Shoppers Stockpile Sale" & Monthly Indoor Community Yard Sale This Friday the 2nd of August inside the Ajax Turner Senior Center 953 Clark St Friday August 2nd from 8:00 am – 1:30 pm Located inside the Ajax Turner Senior Center. <br>953 Clark Street, off Greenwood Avenue. I will be participating with a lot of other vendors in the "Monthly Center Yard Sale" Are you trying to stretch your dollar these days? This sale is perfect for you. You already know what a Yard Sale is, but you may be asking yourself "What is a Stockpile Sale"? I’m using A LOT of coupons to purchase Name Brand household and personal hygiene items at low cost. That’s how I am passing these savings on to you. No need to clip coupons, drive to 6 different stores to match sales-price to coupon, stand in line to check out. I have done all this for you already. Different items are added constantly, depending on the coupons I’m using and the sales in different stores. Mostly Deodorants, shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, detergents…. & other Hygiene, Grocery and Personal Products. These items are all brand NEW and are priced well below retail cost. Come by and check it out. For an itemized list of available items & the possibility to reserve some, please contact me as soon as possible!

I've advertised on Craigslist, but don't know if they have rules about advertising more for yourself, or if a group or business can place an ad. Maybe someone thought you were advertising for the whole event itself, not just yourself.
Next time, maybe make the event more discreet??

My garage is Bursting!! I keep having to buy more bins to hold all my crap! :LOL: Anyway...going to have a GS 8/17-18 and pricing stuff dirt cheap just to get rid of it! Seriously. I did like $800 last time and barely diminished my stock. I have easily 200 bottles of shampoo/conditioner that just need to GO.

Anyway...question for those that GS in 4 season climates. Do you hold GS all year round? If so, how is business in the colder months??

Quote from mnaath : My garage is Bursting!! I keep having to buy more bins to hold all my crap! :LOL: Anyway...going to have a GS 8/17-18 and pricing stuff dirt cheap just to get rid of it! Seriously. I did like $800 last time and barely diminished my stock. I have easily 200 bottles of shampoo/conditioner that just need to GO. Anyway...question for those that GS in 4 season climates. Do you hold GS all year round? If so, how is business in the colder months??

When I lived in SoCal year round gsales were great. Now in the Midwest, I need to go inside @ the local flea market because of weather. Regular vendors (as in year round) state fall & winter are their best seasons. The heat of this summer has provided my worst sales ever.

I think I'll try selling the photo paper and see what happens. I was going to sell it on ebay but people aren't making any money on there after ebay fees and shipping. I can't believe some of you have so much stuff to put in a garage sale! I usually have a tub or two of stuff, and thats from going to CVS usually a couple times a week. Not sure how I'd get more stuff! Do you buy lots of newspapers?

Quote from aec2003 : I think I'll try selling the photo paper and see what happens. I was going to sell it on ebay but people aren't making any money on there after ebay fees and shipping. I can't believe some of you have so much stuff to put in a garage sale! I usually have a tub or two of stuff, and thats from going to CVS usually a couple times a week. Not sure how I'd get more stuff! Do you buy lots of newspapers?

I bet most of us are shopping Rite Aid, it's not great every week, but there is always something to make money on, limits are higher and you can have multiple cards and use bucks from one card on another!

I had a sale on Saturday, sold the only 2 Lichi's I had, $3 each, same person bought both, first thing in the morning too!

I have people all the time come and think they are buying me out by spending $15, of course they want a deal, I tell them I have customers who come and spend $100, and don't expect one cent of a discount!!! I just don't get it, how do they not think they are already getting a deal, I sell most items cheaper then what I see posted on here, most everything is 50% walmart price, the only things I don't sell really cheap are paper towels and toilet paper, I sell bounty basic for $4 and better paper towels for $5, I sell scott for $5. I try and be nice but sometimes people just don't stop running their mouths! This lady a few weeks ago was something else. She walked up to the sale with a friend, she really only looked at the makeup bins and just kept commenting how the items should be out of the sun, it wasn't too hot when I first set up, and I was going to move it out of the direct sun but never got a chance because all day there was atleast 2-3 people digging. So she's done and has a handful of make ( I don't know about the rest of you, but makeup doesn't sell well for me, so I price it usually 75% off drug store prices, I don't know walmart prices on makeup) anyway she has about 10 items and says, can I get a deal, not nicely either, I saw sorry all my items are priced to sell, she then looks at me like I have 3 heads and says this is a garage sale, and I said yes, and I can charge what I want and you can either pay it or not!!!! Then she throws in the fact that the makeup was sitting in the sun and melting all morning, then I come back with ....then WHY do you want to buy it???? OMG people are nuts She then slams the handful back in the bin and walks aways running her mouth!

Quote from Cheapkate : I bet most of us are shopping Rite Aid, it's not great every week, but there is always something to make money on, limits are higher and you can have multiple cards and use bucks from one card on another! I had a sale on Saturday, sold the only 2 Lichi's I had, $3 each, same person bought both, first thing in the morning too! I have people all the time come and think they are buying me out by spending $15, of course they want a deal, I tell them I have customers who come and spend $100, and don't expect one cent of a discount!!! I just don't get it, how do they not think they are already getting a deal, I sell most items cheaper then what I see posted on here, most everything is 50% walmart price, the only things I don't sell really cheap are paper towels and toilet paper, I sell bounty basic for $4 and better paper towels for $5, I sell scott for $5. I try and be nice but sometimes people just don't stop running their mouths! This lady a few weeks ago was something else. She walked up to the sale with a friend, she really only looked at the makeup bins and just kept commenting how the items should be out of the sun, it wasn't too hot when I first set up, and I was going to move it out of the direct sun but never got a chance because all day there was atleast 2-3 people digging. So she's done and has a handful of make ( I don't know about the rest of you, but makeup doesn't sell well for me, so I price it usually 75% off drug store prices, I don't know walmart prices on makeup) anyway she has about 10 items and says, can I get a deal, not nicely either, I saw sorry all my items are priced to sell, she then looks at me like I have 3 heads and says this is a garage sale, and I said yes, and I can charge what I want and you can either pay it or not!!!! Then she throws in the fact that the makeup was sitting in the sun and melting all morning, then I come back with ....then WHY do you want to buy it???? OMG people are nuts She then slams the handful back in the bin and walks aways running her mouth!

I think some people want things for less no matter how low you price it at and there are those who never shop retail stores...... only garage sales and are used to haggling.

I used to have garage sales 30+ years ago and truely sold what I considered junk (my mother in law called us up and told us to bring JUNK because the JUNKIER the better things were selling at her first ever garage sale. So we tried it and she was right. My hubby sold wire coat hangers and used rags for more than a pack was selling for at KMart full price (pre walmart days).

Anyway............ I would put out used make up and it always sold!....... 25 cents - $1. USED! So this woman............. she is likely comparing your new items with stuff she can get at typical GSs......... probably doesn't care it's new.

We sell name brand products and maybe they are thinking what they can get off brands for (the only reason I can come up with for not being able to sell pampers).

The people who buy a ton of stuff............. they don't ask for a discount. They are the ones who shop in regular stores and know what a deal they are getting. It's always the ones who have two - five items....... I'm buying ALOT from u! I need a discount! My response is.......... someone else will buy it if you don't and you can buy this, this and this (out of what they have) for that much. They might whine more, but they either cave and pay or buy one or two things less but rarely leave without paying for something.

Quote from heikejohn : I’m using A LOT of coupons to purchase Name Brand household and personal hygiene items at low cost. That’s how I am passing these savings on to you. No need to clip coupons, drive to 6 different stores to match sales-price to coupon, stand in line to check out. I have done all this for you already. Different items are added constantly, depending on the coupons I’m using and the sales in different stores. Mostly Deodorants, shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, detergents…. & other Hygiene, Grocery and Personal Products. These items are all brand NEW and are priced well below retail cost. Come by and check it out. For an itemized list of available items & the possibility to reserve some, please contact me as soon as possible!

I just got finished reading "craigslist 4 Everyone" and some things she mentioned that could get your ad flagged were selling terms like "New in box", "hot buy" or great deal. Also duplicate or similar postings are other possibilities. Somewhere else I've seen it mentioned that the term "name brand" can also be be why.

Now, when someone asks me for a better price, I say......

I have already built in YOUR discount into MY prices.

Quote from heikejohn : Just had this ad on Craigslist a couple of days ago. It was pulled for some reason. Never had a problem before. I only change the dates, but use the same text every time. Anybody have an idea what went wrong? "Coupon Shoppers Stockpile Sale" & Monthly Indoor Community Yard Sale This Friday the 2nd of August inside the Ajax Turner Senior Center 953 Clark St Friday August 2nd from 8:00 am – 1:30 pm Located inside the Ajax Turner Senior Center. <br>953 Clark Street, off Greenwood Avenue. I will be participating with a lot of other vendors in the "Monthly Center Yard Sale" Are you trying to stretch your dollar these days? This sale is perfect for you. You already know what a Yard Sale is, but you may be asking yourself "What is a Stockpile Sale"? I’m using A LOT of coupons to purchase Name Brand household and personal hygiene items at low cost. That’s how I am passing these savings on to you. No need to clip coupons, drive to 6 different stores to match sales-price to coupon, stand in line to check out. I have done all this for you already. Different items are added constantly, depending on the coupons I’m using and the sales in different stores. Mostly Deodorants, shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, detergents…. & other Hygiene, Grocery and Personal Products. These items are all brand NEW and are priced well below retail cost. Come by and check it out. For an itemized list of available items & the possibility to reserve some, please contact me as soon as possible!

My advice is not to worry about it. Who knows? I had my ad pulled randomly a couple times and I just reposted it without issue. (I always sort of suspected it was done by a fellow couponer who didn't like what I was doing.)

MommmieD, marciadel , PirateQueen
Thank You!!!
I will change a few words in my ad for next month. Will use "pristine", "Well known Manufacturers", and so on.

Quote from GoHalos : I think some people want things for less no matter how low you price it at and there are those who never shop retail stores...... only garage sales and are used to haggling. I used to have garage sales 30+ years ago and truely sold what I considered junk (my mother in law called us up and told us to bring JUNK because the JUNKIER the better things were selling at her first ever garage sale. So we tried it and she was right. My hubby sold wire coat hangers and used rags for more than a pack was selling for at KMart full price (pre walmart days). Anyway............ I would put out used make up and it always sold!....... 25 cents - $1. USED! So this woman............. she is likely comparing your new items with stuff she can get at typical GSs......... probably doesn't care it's new. We sell name brand products and maybe they are thinking what they can get off brands for (the only reason I can come up with for not being able to sell pampers). The people who buy a ton of stuff............. they don't ask for a discount. They are the ones who shop in regular stores and know what a deal they are getting. It's always the ones who have two - five items....... I'm buying ALOT from u! I need a discount! My response is.......... someone else will buy it if you don't and you can buy this, this and this (out of what they have) for that much. They might whine more, but they either cave and pay or buy one or two things less but rarely leave without paying for something.

I use to set up next to a man at the flea market that was great at handling these people.

He sold antiques and older stuff. They would ask how much something was and then after he told them they'd say something like "it has a dent in it"

he'd say something like, " yeah, well I'm throwing that in for free"