Yard Sale 10 Reasons Why I Won't Buy from You

1. Your yard sale is a Safety Hazard Potential customers are driving down the road. A car suddenly brakes and veers sharply to the right cutting off another driver to get into your yard sale area. People are in danger. You didn't put signs out alerting drivers to yard sale ahead. Angry people who might have stopped are trying to get their hearts out of their throats and driving on by if they did not rear end the yard-saler idiot in front of them. You also did not rope off a parking area separate from the sale area and this same idiot drove over an item you could have gotten five dollars for. Sorry, your loss, your fault.

2. It's a yard or garage sale not a rain sale If a customer sees items that have obviously been out in the rain they will drive on by happy in knowing that they won't be going home with wilting books, mildewed clothes or cracking wooden pieces. Do you normally leave household contents in the rain or blazing sun? Wet and fading items are not things I want to buy.

3. Buying clothes off of the ground - NO Yuck! First of all, I'm not bending over with my nose on my knees trying to sift through anything you have placed on the ground. You need to have tables or boxes to display items on. If you can get a clothes rack to hang things you will sell more. A good yard sale rule is think store and sales. I'm also not taking the chance that I am carrying clothes item to my car with a slug, spider or ants sliming or crawling on them. Disgusting.
Another sale lost.

4.The customer is drawn in Dirty items= No sale You did a good job drawing customers in then blew the sale. If I have to blow dust off of a book cover to check it out I'm not a happy book buyer. And I do buy books. I'm also not going to check out dusty dirty items and get my hands filthy because you didn't take time to clean the things you are telling me are worth spending my money on.

5. Prices Too High I'm not shopping at your yard sale to help pay for your kids college tuition. I am there to buy things that you know has some value. You are selling them to be environmentally responsible and keeping them out of a land fill. You also figure you'll make some quick cash for the few days of hard work.
It's your refuse. This may be hard to take but the normal pricing method for a yard sale is 70% off of the original cost of the item. I'm not spending $.75 for an item you bought for a dollar. I intend to spend no more than 30 cents for that item. If your prices are out of reason I am walking away.

6. No prices I am not going to search for you to price out the six items I'm interested in. It was hard enough to get my husband to stop at your yard sale. I want ready information on your prices. I want a clear price tag so I can estimate what I can get before I approach you cash in hand. No prices, no sale.
There's another yard sale down the road.

7. Unappealing furniture The table is dusty, dirty with some alien substance and loaded down with other yard sale clutter. Oh, if only that maple table were cleaned and polished I just might have been happy to spend over 30% on it. Too bad. You messed up again. It could have been your money maker if it was shined and displayed prominently.

8. Hovering Yardsale Host I'm not at your place for a social event. I probably don't even know you. I do not want to hear about your gall bladder surgery or your kids ulcerated tooth. I do not need to know that your great grandmother's uncle died in the bed I'm looking at. All in all I do not need you up my rear end while I'm shopping. It aggravates me. I feel like a vulture is hovering over the pickings. I'm heading out to a different yard sale.

9. Not willing to deal A yard sale is a yard sale. People love to wheel and deal. You wouldn't sell me a group of items for a dollar less than the combined cost. You lost the sale.

10. Need to Know I won't buy any plug in appliances or gadgets when I can not tell if they are usable. You have nothing available for me to plug it in and try it. You did not put a sign out that said 'As Is' or this 'DVD player swallowed a disc and it never worked again'. I just wanted the information. I still may have bought the item as a fixer-upper or for parts for an item I already have. You'd be so surprised what customers are looking for. Right now I have a coffeemaker , broken carafe. I would have bought your coffeemaker just for that. You wouldn't tell me about it so you get to keep it.

Well, I didn't do at all well at your garage or yard sale today. I really wish you had prepared better. You had things there that caught my eye. I wonder, did you really want to sell them?