Tip number 5 and tip number 1 go hand in hand. If I had offered her $20 for the 45 books, that would have been unreasonable. If I had only found 4 books I liked, I would not have asked her to take a lower price since I felt like the $1 asking price for pristine hard back books was worth the total. I picked up 45 books and offered to pay her $40. Each book was $1 despite the sometimes high retail price. This parent had some amazing books in their library at very reasonable prices. įor example, I went to a garage sale of a home school parent last summer. The majority of the time when I go with an armload of items to the seller. I will usually go to the seller and say I have 14 items, would you take $10?ĩ times out of 10 they will say yes. It's not unheard of at a person's sale that if I like one piece I usually like several items. Again, lets say each clothing item is $1 a piece. I usually buy a lot of clothes and it's pretty typical that a garage sale doesn't have each item individually priced. If a seller wants $350 for a dresser, I know that I will probably not be able to get that dresser negotiated down to a price I am willing to pay, unless I am willing to pay close to the asking price.īut if they say that the clothes for example are a dollar a piece, then I know we are in the same ball park. You know, those garage sales where the prices are so high that the people would just rather keep their stuff. If we are really far off base, I usually just walk away. If the items aren't marked, I typically find something that I want and ask the seller what they are asking for the item. If the items at a sale are not marked you just don't know what you are dealing with. It's not my biggest garage sale pet peeve, though it is up there. It's inevitable that every week I will come across a garage sale that doesn't have their items marked.
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