No More Garage Sales, Make Money on eBay & Craigslist

No one hates a garage sale more than myself. Going is great, it is the having part that I laothe, having to drag everything you don’t want into your driveway at 6:00 AM, meanwhile the hardcore shoppers are looking into your garage long before you are ready to get started. These people are like vultures with cars driving around your house and waiting until it is time, and then they come in and they want everything for 5 cents! Your couch, your kids clothes, your old toaster, all 5 cents and they look at you like you are crazy if you don’t lower your price, letting you know very well that they don’t think anything you have is worth the money being charged.

Then you have the later stragglers, after you are tired and hat from being in your driveway for hours and here come the neighbors ready to be friendly and look around, but, when they pick up items and put them down or glance around and go home you wonder, “what’ wrong with MY stuff”.

Of course at the end of the day when you still have all your unsold items outside and have to carry it in and find places for everything again, here comes the people who really do want free stuff. They come to all the garage sales at the end in hopes that the owner will just hand everything over instead of dealing with it again.

No thank you ladies (and gentlemen)! I found the solution and it makes all the difference in the world. I started with ebay and was having a blast, I was selling shoes that didn’t even sell at the garage sale for a dollar on ebay for $18.00. That is just one example but a common one. Our post office is a half a block away so that made it very easy too. Every day I would walk around my house and look for things I didn’t need or want and put it on an auction and watch for a few days. Believe me, there is a buyer for everything! It became quite addictive to the point that I started going to garage sales and bought up items that I knew would sell on ebay and go home and sell them for alot more money.

After telling all of my friends about it I was informed of the www.craigslist.com. I never heard of this and apparently am the only one who never knew of craigslist. It is totally free to post ads, you can include pictures so you don’t get lots of people trying to come to your house and look, and it is in every city so your listing is local and people just come pick up the item instead of you having to ship. This is awesome for those of you not close to the post office or if you are trying to sell furniture, I even gave away a pair of parakeets to a great home.

Craigslist is a whole underground world of people who buy and sell on there and also new or one timers. You can find a buyer for anything for babies or kids, people will buy your furniture, cars, anything. Unlike ebay where you start with a low price and wait to see how high it goes, craigslist I found that you can think about how much you want for your item and raise it higher before listing. I always over price my items from what I think they are worth and people always buy the stuff. Then if it doesn’t sell you can always go back and relist for a lower price. I suppose it proves the theory that one mans trash is another mans treasure. Everything sells for realistic prices instead of giving it away at garage sales.

Say no to garage sales and start earning the money you things are really worth!