Tips For Organizing Successful Moving Sales New York Residents Will Want To Browse

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.

Call in your family and friends to create a multi-household extravaganza. Setting up a garage sale is hard work, and it will be lot more fun if you share it with family and friends. Combining efforts makes economic sense because you can share the cost of supplies and advertising.

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.

Take a cue from stores when you're displaying your items. Shops group items that are alike together. They do it for a reason. It is a lot easier for shoppers to find the things they're looking for. Customers are more likely to buy when you make the shopping experience convenient. Shops don't throw their merchandise down on tables in piles and expect their customers to claw through them. Shops hang their clothing on racks. So should you.

Your items have to be priced to sell. People expect to find bargains when they attend garage sales. They won't buy anything that is near market value. It really doesn't matter what you originally paid for things.

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.

Create a pleasant and welcoming environment. You might put some of your nicest items, or the ones you think will sell fast, at the end of the driveway so passersby will notice them. Some fresh flowers in bottles or vases placed on tables is a nice touch. You might even enlist the neighborhood kids to put up a lemonade or hot chocolate stand to earn some extra money and keep your customers from going elsewhere to get something to drink.




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