Monday, February 4, 2019

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 yard sale, the more people will be attracted to it. Be sure to advertise that there are multiple sellers and hundreds of items. It is important to identify each item with a seller's tag or dot to avoid confusion after the sale when you are settling up.

You can not expect people to come to an event they don't know anything about. You do not have to spend a lot of money on publicizing the sale, if you are creative though. Social media is where you should go first. Post a flyer that has plenty of good pictures, and the basic information, and share it with all your friends. If there is a weekly free community shopper in your area, you can put an ad in it for a small fee and get a pretty large readership in return.

Display your items the way a shop would do. There is a reason stores group like items together. It makes finding the things shoppers are interested in easier. The easier it is to find, the more likely they are to buy. In the same vein, stores don't pile clothes up and expect shoppers to dig through them. Clothes are hung neatly on racks. Consider putting up signs so it makes it easier for shoppers. That is what stores do.

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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