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deeflutterby · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Indiana

Where is everybody???? Shocked

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JJJJJR · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Southern New Jersey

deeflutterby · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Indiana

Welcom Capt. John,

Sounds like a fun job!! If I'm ever in NJ, I will look you up.... Laughing

Post any good finds, and trends you are aware of. Hopefully this site will take off soon. Yards sales will be starting around here soon.

Enjoy!
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fromthecountry · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Northern Michigan

Hi gang! This is my first post, so I suppose I might as well rant right off the bat!

I'm closing my eBay store on Monday, Mar 26 after six relatively profitable months.

The "treasures" I have accumulated are almost items that I "inherited" from my deceased relatives. Somehow, it's always my wife and I that end up cleaning out the house after grandma/Dad/brother/aunt/you-name-it ends up in the hospital or hospice ot the funeral home. We have a huge basement, and we're sentimental about old things, especially family things, so we tend to keep a lot of things that, right or wrong, other family members would put in dumpster. Those "dumpster" items have done every well for us on eBay!

So I decided to start an eBay store with the user name "Mommas Basement." We live in the northen top of the lower part of Michigan, so there are not a lot of people, or yardsales, to take advantage of. So the eBay store has been great.

But I haven't been spending the time it takes to list enough items to make the store profitable month after month. And the placement of store items at the bottom of the eBay search page really hurts us. I've used regular auction listing as "banner ads" for the store, and that works well, but then you have to pay for a listing just to get people to visit the store.

So I'm thinking I may do better taking my stuff to a local antique mall to sell on consignment. Consignment is nice because there are no fees until your item sells (...kind of like Amazon). So although I'm still a Yardsaler by heart, I won't be an eBayer for too much longer. At least, not with "yardsale" type goodies.

Has anyone tried consignment selling at a bricks-and-mortar store?

Please visit my eBay store (...while you still can!) to see what you think!

Rick
MommasBasement

Gary H · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Grand Forks, ND

Hi everyone,

Gary here. I just found the forum through Julia's Yardsalers Newsletter so I thought I'd introduce myself.

I'm in North Dakota and have been yard saling (usually called garage sales in this neck of the woods) for more than twenty-five years. I started going to them to buy inventory to sell at small flea markets in the area, and have been hooked ever since. I still find in nearly impossible to drive by one without stopping.

The yard sale season in this area is pretty much limited to late April/early May through September, so I'm currently pretty much in withdrawal.

I've been making my living on eBay since shortly after it got started, selling antiques and collectibles.

Outside of eBay I'm a crazed college hockey fan; a frustrated fisherman; an even more frustrated golfer; and enjoy restoring and driving vintage sports cars. I also collect aspirin tins and have more than 700 different ones in my collection.
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The Auction Rebel

juliawilk · Site Admin Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 21

Hey Rick (and a shout out to Gary...good to see you again!),

Sorry to hear about your eBay store. I hear you about the Store items being hard to find. A good idea, I think, to take a break from it...then you can always come back to it..possibly refreshed?

Let us know how the consignment selling works for you. From the articles I've seen about eBay consignment stores, they haven't been working very well either. Will be interesting to see what (if anything) eBay says again this year at eBay live about the visibility of Store items. Last year at eBay Live it seemed to be a big issue.

gsalr · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

Hello all!

I'm Nate, a fellow yard saler in Boise, ID. I've been hitting the sales on and off for a little over 10 years.

When I was younger my friends and I found a big local map that we could write on with dry erase markers. We would plot all the local sales on it and plan our route for Saturday morning. I don't have the map anymore, but I've recently started a website at http://gsalr.com/ to do the same thing, without the mess of markers Razz

Please check it out when you get a chance, and any feedback is welcome.

Anyway, thanks for the forum, Julia! I look forward to participating in the community and hearing tips from other salers.

Nate
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Local garage sales by map at gsalr.com!

juliawilk · Site Admin Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 21

Welcome, Nate! Your site looks very cool and I look fwd. to checking it out.

What kinda stuff do you like to look for at sales...anything in particular? Smile

Julia

gsalr · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

natalie · Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Caldwell, ID

My name is Natalie, I live in Caldwell Idaho.

I like to find toys, books and clothes for my kids at yard sales. I also like to find wierd stuff like large knight statues, chinese umbrellas whathaveyou.

I built a new site called www.GarageSaleNation.com. Last weekend it has 28,000 garage sales listed and mapped by zip code.

Let me know what you think of it.

I like weekendtreasures, and gsalr's setups. I used to do the dots like Nate.
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I have 25,000 yard sales mapped at www.garagesalenation.com

juliawilk · Site Admin Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 21

Hi Natalie!

That is so cool! Knight statues! I love it.

I checked out your site and it looks cool. I will be happy to post a link to it from the main page of Yard Salers if you like. Smile

Please keep us posted as to how it's doing.

Thanks and hope to see u 'round on the boards!

Julia