Tip to Getting Good Deals At Yard Sales: Go Late in the Day
28 August 2006Pretty much everyone knows the standard rule of garage sales and yard sales: whoever goes the earliest gets the best stuff. But they may not be getting the best deals, as Mighty Bargain Hunter discovered. He found that if you go to them at the end of the day, people are desparate to get rid of stuff. They don’t want to keep it, otherwise they wouldn’t have put it out there - so you can offer people a lot less late in the day and they’ll be willing to sell to you. A smart twist that any person who frequents yard sales should be aware of.
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2 Responses to “Tip to Getting Good Deals At Yard Sales: Go Late in the Day”
August 28th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
[...] Note this from Free the Drones: Pretty much everyone knows the standard rule of garage sales and yard sales: whoever goes the earliest gets the best stuff. But they may not be getting the best deals, as Mighty Bargain Hunter discovered. He found that if you go to them at the end of the day, people are desperate to get rid of stuff. They don’t want to keep it, otherwise they wouldn’t have put it out there - so you can offer people a lot less late in the day and they’ll be willing to sell to you. [...]
May 8th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Or, as in my case, someone tried to low-ball me and offer me $2 for everything I had left and I decided to give it all to GoodWill.