Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Hints For Organizing The Kind Of Moving Sales New York Neighbors 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.

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.

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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