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Garage Sale Hints for Displaying Your Merchandise to Sell
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by Helen Walters
Published on this site: March 16th, 2006 - See
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Garage Sale Hints for Displaying Your Merchandise
Garage sales are a common thing from early spring until just
before the winter snows begin to fly. We've all been to dozens
in our life and for the most part I'd say most people feel
pretty comfortable that they could put on their own reasonable garage sale if they wanted too. Well we'd like to think that
the following list of garage sale hints will help out those
of you who are perhaps a little inexperienced in selling.
One of the most common mistakes that people make is in the
way that they display the items that they are wanting to sell.
If you spend just a few minutes thinking about what you are
selling and how to best organize it, you will sell more stuff
at a higher price. So.
Once your tables are set up either inside the garage a few
days before the sale or outside on your driveway the day of
the sale, it is time to put your merchandise out on display
in a way that makes it easier for people to find and buy what
they are looking for.
It is really critical that you don't simply put everything
out randomly, in big piles, or scattered all over the place
on the ground. Ideally, you don't want people moving things
around on their own. Take it from someone who used to work
in retail: left to their own devices, people will make a royal
mess of any organization system.
If you can keep people from rummaging about, in, and underneath
your carefully organized displays, you will save yourself
a lot of reorganizing headaches later. Starting out with easy
to access displays that are organized logically is a good
thing.
Here are a few other hints to keep in mind as you put out
your garage sale items.
- No clothes should be thrown on the ground.
- Small items should not be placed in boxes under the tables.
- Everything for sale should be displayed when the sale
opens.
- Group items by price.
- Divide the tables into areas for different price ranges
and put a sign up letting people know what that range is.
- The arrangement should make it easier for your customers
to find what they need, what they want.
These garage sale hints should help first-timers to have
everything run smoothly. Just be sure to put like things together
and give people enough space to move around.
Helen Walters - Get original garage sale hints
http://www.garage-sale-riches.com and other resources
on how to hold a profitable garage sale with the least amount
of work and hassle
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