The age-old tradition of holding garage or yard sales is still practical for ridding your home of lower-priced items including books, CDs, gently used clothing and toys…
Garage sale or sell at auction?
The next time you are in need of cleaning house and are about to have a garage, yard or tag sale, consider contacting a Trading Assistant first. You have already found one since you are looking at this website.
Some things sell extremely well at auction. There are many people who have made it a career going around to sales every weekend and haggling with people and buying high quality merchandise for pennies on the dollar. These people then go home and sell your merchandise on eBay. You may not believe it, but they actually make a profit! In many cases it can be significant. Your loss is their gain.
We are not trying to discourage you from having a sale; we are trying to keep you from losing your money. All we ask is the next time you consider your garage sale, give us a call. We will come over and analyze your stuff. Things that will sell well at auction we will consign. The rest, go ahead and sell at the garage sale.
Remember that we will be showcasing your goods to nearly 100 million people bidding in competition from all over the world. Your garage sale will bring in several dozen bargain hunters.
Peter Walsh did a comparison of one family that had a garage sale and another that hired a Trading Assistant. One family made $600 and the other made $2000. Can you guess which one made the $2000? To see this article, click here. Adobe Acrobat reader is required.