Garage Sales

[Roxy.music]

It seems you people in the US have a lot of Garage Sales there , you have much bigger gardens than we do in the Uk here they just have a few tables of stuff plus there few and far between. We do have Boot fairs but not many of them.

it seems like you can knock the price down a lot there, I can,t see that happening here in the UK.or is just that the guy has the gift of the garb that is properly because he sells the stuff on eBay.The guy goes to lots of sales on the same day. Does anyone go to those sales and sell the stuff on eBay.?

 

[willmtaylor]

Negotiating is expected and generally considered when pricing. However, how much a seller is willing to come down really depends on many factors, such as the item itself and how late into the day it’s getting.

Most have garage sales to get rid of a lot of old items at once—if something has greater value, it can be sold elsewhere by other means.

 

[jeyf]

US; it is a way to get rid of un used items at a garage sale. That being said most of the items are second rate. 4exmple i went to the neighbor's sale because i wanted a low end rice cooker. I only paid a fraction of the retail price but it would be un likely to see a garage sale item that you could post onto ebay the next day.

I do live in an urban area but garage sales are not just a regular thing here.

competition:
upper end clothig gets bought sold at a few well know consignment shops
used tools; ladders, socket sets, etc there is a local shop and the stuff is not stolen
architectural salvage; quite a few shops selling used doors, flooring, parts for older plumbing

we post stuff directly onto ebay and skip the garage sale thingy

 

[Roxy.music]

It seems what you call Flea markets are called Boot faires here in the UK, a lot of them are held in fields. I like this guys

What is goodwill store?

 

[Huntn]

I’d say that the likes of eBay has displaced the garage sale to a large degree, although if you want to go to the trouble and sell stuff for $.50 an item, garage sales might still be viable.

 

[ucfgrad93]

For me, the purpose of a garage sale is to get rid of unwanted stuff. Making money is secondary to that.

 

[Roxy.music]

For me, the purpose of a garage sale is to get rid of unwanted stuff. Making money is secondary to that.

It is not what the guy in the video does, but he is a dealer he goes there to get stuff for selling.
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I take it a Goodwill store here in the UK would be called a charity shop.

 

[iAssimilated]

I take it a Goodwill store here in the UK would be called a charity shop.

Goodwill is basically a second hand shop (where the second hand items are given not sold). Not sure what those are called in the UK.

In the US, Goodwill is for people who have things they no longer need, too lazy to try to sell, and are possibly hoping for a tax write-off.

 

[Roxy.music]

Goodwill is basically a second hand shop (where the second hand items are given not sold). Not sure what those are called in the UK.

Oh, I see as far as I know we don,t have any of these Our charity shops you give stuff to them then they sell them. They are getting more expensive as it seems well off people are using them now.

 

[iAssimilated]

Once the items are given to Goodwill they are then sold by Goodwill (my last post might have caused some confusion there, sorry).

Goodwill does use that money for some really good causes though (which would be the primary difference between Goodwill and a simple for-profit second hand shop). https://www.goodwill.org

 

[eyoungren]

It seems you people in the US have a lot of Garage Sales there , you have much bigger gardens than we do in the Uk here they just have a few tables of stuff plus there few and far between. We do have Boot fairs but not many of them.

it seems like you can knock the price down a lot there, I can,t see that happening here in the UK.or is just that the guy has the gift of the garb that is properly because he sells the stuff on eBay.The guy goes to lots of sales on the same day. Does anyone go to those sales and sell the stuff on eBay.?

In the rural community that my parents deemed fit to raise their two children during the 1980s, the Beaumont, California swap meet was a regular venue for my dad on Saturdays starting from the time I was 13 (1983).

The site is still there and it continues to operate on Saturdays and Sundays. I'm 49 now. That's 36 years, plus all the years before we actually started going there.



PS, the Salvation Army is also like the Goodwill. I got a PowerMac 6500 there once. Unfortunately, the Goodwill stopped carrying computers several years back although they still carry monitors and computer components.

After the 2008 economic downturn, people got cost conscious and the Goodwill saw an increase in customers. That's good, but it also meant that the days of the employees not paying attention to what they put out were over. There's been a few things over the years that my wife and I have walked out the store with that would cost much more elsewhere. A genuine antique silver platter (not silver plated) my wife paid about $10 for comes to mind.

Hence, now the computers end up on shopgoodwill.com, which is an auction site for Goodwill much like eBay.