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Tips For Managing Successful Moving Sales New York Residents Will Flock To

By Carolyn Thompson


If you're going to move, you don't need to take things with you that you do not need anymore or won't have room for in the new house. The moving sales New York natives love to shop aren't hard to organize, but can be tricky to do well. If you plan ahead and market your unwanted items in the same way shops market their merchandise you won't have a problem.

The bigger the sale, and more households that participate, the better. Organizing a yard sale is time consuming. It will make the time pass quicker if you're working together with family and friends. Combining all your stuff into one huge sale, and sharing the costs of supplies and marketing, makes sense economically.

The bigger your garage sale, the more excited people will be to go to it. Make sure to highlight the hundreds of items and multiple sellers participating in all your advertisements. You must be careful to tag or dot each item with that seller's identifying mark to avoid confusion when it's time to settle up.

Advertising is not an option. If you don't let the public know about your sale, no one will show up. There are ways to advertise your sale for free. One of the most effective is social media. You need to do more than just mention it to your friends. You can set up a special page with pertinent information and plenty of pictures of the best items in your sale. If your community has a free weekly shopper, you might consider that. The cost to advertise is usually negligible, and people do read those papers.

Display your things the way shops display their merchandise. Shops group like items together for a reason. That's the easiest way for shoppers to find what they're looking for. Shoppers are more likely to purchase what is easy for them to find. Stores don't pile their merchandise on tables in big heaps either. They hang their clothes on racks in order. Stores also display signs directing shoppers to specific merchandise.

Your things have to be priced to sell. People come to yard sales because of the prices. They are not going to pay retail for anything they find there. You have to forget how much you paid for things when you're having a sale like this.

You should price each item separately. You might be tempted to batch things, but you'll be throwing away money if you do. Buyers do not want to keep asking the price of things and are less likely to buy if something is unmarked. Your price increments have to be simple. Rather than marking an item $1.49, round it up to $1.50.

Invite customers in with a pleasant, welcoming atmosphere. You should put your best things, or ones you think will be popular with customers, close to the street, or just at the entrance to your house so they are the first things people see. Fresh flowers placed on your tables is a great touch. If you can talk your kids and their friends into setting up lemonade or hot cocoa drink stands to make some money, your customers will stay longer and buy more.




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