Garage sale is not just all about selling your old stuffs because you are moving to another place; it is a business and must be taken care properly especially if you are reselling purchased items from another cheap garage sale.
Here are the most recommended tips to make your garage sale profitable.
Advertise Your Garage Sale: Nobody knows that you are going to have a garage sale so make everyone aware. Advertise your garage sale based on allocated budget.
Price Everything: Most garage sale doesn’t have price tag. This is a traditional practice so no wonder why only few put prices on items. Garage sale shoppers, like me or every one of us don’t want to ask for prices. Worst yet, if there are a lot of people and the vendor is busy, I would prefer going back to my car instead of asking for the price of every item I want.
Prepare Plenty of Coins and Lower Bills: This is very practical. You don’t want to lost a buyer who has a $100 bill and you don’t have $20s and $10s to change. Make sure you have plenty of coins, a roll of $10, a roll of $20, and some $5. You cannot blame a customer who pay $50 for the product the costs $16. You must be ready for this.
Keep Security in Mind: Garage sales are fun but your items can also attract less honest people. When everyone is busy, make sure your eyes are so observant to watch your products or else someone may walk away with anything expensive. Put expensive and small items near to you and make sure your money is secure as well.
Neatness Matters: Display your products as if you are inside the mall. Clothes should be hanged properly or should be folded neatly, books should be in shelves, plates should be in racks, and make sure you separate the mint items from slightly damaged goods.
Bags Must be Available: People who are going to garage sale are not sure that they are going to buy so they do not prepare or bring bags. Make sure you have some bags for them in case they buy. Some people wanted to buy, but because they can’t hold the product, they decline. On the other hand, people like to buy as long as they can hold.
Welcome Everyone: Prepare at least some refreshment for your visitors. A jar of juice will never hurt your pocket if you care about your buyers.
Bright, Clear Signs Are a Must: You garage sale is not only for people living near to your vicinity but also for strangers. If you have a sign posted outside, other could follow it to your place where garage sale is being conducted.
What to Do with Leftovers? Before you begin your garage sales, you must have a plan for your leftovers. It is not advisable to bring leftovers to your house because you don’t want to clutter and there is no big place. Contact a recycling company or a volume buyer dropshipper to pick-up your leftover.
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Every so often a funny story comes along about something odd being auctioned off on eBay for an enormous amount of money. After the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, for example, everything from foul balls to ticket stubs were being auctioned off on the Web’s largest auction site, and often commanding ridiculously high bids.
But that’s nothing compared to the latest eBay sensation. A Frosted Flake (as in Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal) in the shape of the state of Illinois is currently accepting bids on eBay, and in fact, a kind of bidding war has broken out over the misshapen serial flake.
By late Monday, the single Frosted Flake boasted 46 bids on eBay, with the current highest bidder at $1,175. The bidding for the flake began on Friday, and a feeding frenzy quickly began among collectors looking to acquire the oddly shaped flake.
Right about now, you’re probably asking yourself why in the world would anyone pay nearly $1200 for a single frosted Flake, no matter what it was shaped like? And while it is true that a picture of the flake reveals that it has an uncanny resemblance to the state of Illinois, the flake’s owner, an eBay seller from Chesapeake, Virginia, is as dumbfounded as the rest of us as to the enormous popularity of the breakfast cereal oddity.
Could this be a modern example of the pet rock? No one is entirely certain, but at the current rate of bidding, the single flake is likely to end up selling for close to $2000, if not more. One interesting question is, who exactly is bidding over $1000 to buy a single Frosted Flake? Because eBay protect the privacy of its bidders, we may never know for certain what kind of person would invest so much money for a seemingly worthless object, or what they expect to get out of it, investment wise.
But perhaps that is the entire point of eBay. Users can auction virtually anything, no matter how seemingly worthless it may be, and occasionally find an untapped market willing to pay big bucks for it.
Of course the Illinois-shaped Frosted Flake is not the strangest thing ever auctioned off on eBay — not by a longshot. Users have auctioned off everything from dryer lint to used bandages on eBay, occasionally attracting higher bids than you might expect for the seemingly uninteresting — and in some cases disgusting — objects.
We will see how the state-shaped Frosted Flake does in the next few days. One thing is for certain though; if this thing garners more than $2000 at auction, I’m going to start checking my frosted flakes very carefully before pouring any milk on them.
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The mega-popular online classifieds site, Craigslist.org has been found not liable for discriminatory content placed in classified ads on the site by users. Last Friday, a federal appeals court reaffirmed a previous ruling finding Craigslist not guilty of discrimination. The judges agreed that Craigslist.org merely provided an open forum where ads could be posted, and could not be held personally responsible for the illegal content contained in the ads.
The case was brought in February of 2006 by the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The plaintiffs in the action had argued that Craigslist had violated the fair housing act because some users of the site had placed classified ads with a illegal terms such as “no children” and “no minorities.”
The plaintiffs also pointed out that many users were more subtle in their discrimination, and instead of specifically rejecting certain groups of people, would go to great lengths to emphasize that the property in question was next door to a Catholic church, for example.
According to section 230 (communications decency act, 1996), a web site which is classified as a “interactive computer service” has immunity from being prosecuted because of illegal content contributed by the web sites members or users. In the case of the Craigslist lawsuit, a federal judge had already ruled on the case back in November, 2006. But the prosecutors decided to appeal that decision, and this latest ruling reinforces the concept that web sites can not be held responsible for illegal content posted by users.
Where this ruling gets tricky is in the area of online file sharing, which depending on which legal scholar you speak to, may or may not fall outside of section 230. But the judges in the Craigslist ruling concluded that although the site does provide the opportunity for users to post illegal content, they cannot realistically be held responsible for the legality of every ad or posting to the site.
This latest ruling simply reinforces the concept of a free and democratic Internet, where no single web site or service provider can be charged for the actions of that sites contributing users. In the era of social networking, YouTube, and Web 2.0 user content-driven sites, this is great news. In fact, without this legal precedent, web sites such as MySpace or Facebook would constantly be at risk of prosecution because of the actions and contributions of their users. This would, no doubt, put an end to social networking sites online as we know them.
But even though the court reconfirmed Craigslist’s immunity to the charges, the court left the door open for the prosecution of individual users of the site, which means that people who place discriminatory ads for housing, etc. can still be singled out and charged with violating the communications decency act. Sounds fair to me.
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