Yard Sale Pricing

That's the same with me, usually going to yard sales is not a planned thing, it's just one of those things that if I see one along the way to accomplish some form of an errand, I'll stop for a few minutes and have a little look around to see if anything captures my attention. So most the time I don't have the time to track down the operator of the yard sale and than wait for them to come up with a reasonable price. That sort of stuff should be figured out before the start of the yard sale in my opinion. Makes for a better experience for those that just don't have the time to really stick around and try to get a reasonable price out the operators for any certain item. Thankfully I haven't ran into many of those types of yard sales. Usually people around my area price everything before hand, and usually I have returned to the same person's yard sales on different occasions. So in away a yard sale is like a business venture, cause I know of several people that find certain operators of yard sales and will continue going back to whenever those people have a yard sale.

Those are the yard sales that I go back to year after year. There are some of the other ones that may be fine now, but after finding out that they had nothing priced the first time, I have never gone back. Everything may be wonderful there now, but they lost any chance for my business years ago when I went there and found nothing priced.

I am hoping not to hit as many of these this year as I did last year. I got so fed up last year that I almost stopped going entirely. It seemed that half of the sales I went to were either not priced at all or had only half of the stuff marked. There were several items that I wanted, but just had neither the time nor the patience to wait for a price check.

As long as there is a sign that says "Everything is .XX" it isn't a problem. I just don't like having no idea what the seller is trying to charge for anything. I quite often buy things from sales where they have tables marked "Everything on this table is is .XX" and it saves them time marking things, yet is easy enough for me at the same time. It works well for everyone so it isn't a problem. The people who don’t mark anything, and often don’t know what they want for things even when you ask them bother me. At one rummage I went to the the man said, just a minute, I'll go ask my wife. He came back several minutes later with the phone in his hand saying that he was still trying to reach her. This guy had no idea how much to charge for things, and his wife wasn't even there to tell him. I ended up leaving before I got a price.

LOL I've been to sales like that too - where the prices look like the ones that were charged when the items were brand new. Strange thing is those are usually the ones that have all their stuff marked too high and then can't understand why they don't sell anything.

That is the only time I ask too, and even though I have probably missed out on some good deals, it just isn't worth it to me to ask for the prices every time.

I quite often only look and don't necessarily buy anything, but if things are priced, I am much more likely to buy something. Even if there are things I am interested in, I usually won't bother if they aren't marked.

I'm glad that you got her things priced. I know that there a lot of people who hate asking just as much as I do. That is why I usually walk out, and I know that there are a lot of others who do the same. As far as haggling goes, some people actually like to do that. I have had a lot of people tell me a price and then tell me that it was negotiable. I don't mind trying to see how low I can get their price as long as I have a base price to go from.

I don't like to be asked to make an offer either, but even that is better than no sign at all. The ones that really bother me are the ones that have no tags or signs at all.

I often do that. I will say to the kids that I don't see any prices so we might as well go. Sometimes they will let me know, but sometimes it backfires me and they will get really annoying by following me around and telling me prices on everything I so much as glance at. That is enough to make me want to hurry out of there too.

I don't mind if at least the tables or bins are marked. It is the sales that have no prices on anything at all that really get to me. If they can't be bothered with pricing their things, then I don't want to bother asking about each item. Besides, often I end up asking and getting one of these people who wants an outrageous price and looks at you like you are being stingy for not paying such a high price.

I'm really glad to hear that because I really hate it when people do that. I don't mind when people bring things out and price them as they go, but to leave them unpriced is another matter.

That is just the way I feel about it. Their time is no more valuable than mine. I won't bother if they won't.

That is the one problem with table pricing. People sometimes tend to pick things up from one table, then change their mind and set them back down somewhere else. If you are running a sale where you have things priced by the table or by the box instead of pricing everything individually, you have to keep a constant lookout for misplaced items.

Sometimes I wonder if I may be just too impatient, but I really hate waiting. Even if they aren't busy though, I don't like to have to ask about everything. I don't think that it is asking to much for them to put prices on things, or at least put a price on the table saying everything here is $1 or something.

If the seller is right there I might ask, but I won't carry an armload up to them, just to decide I don't like the prices. I don't see the point in wasting my time or trouble with this type of sales. Thanks for your response.

That is how we always did it too. The tags would always say things like KB $1.00 or ML $5.00 so we would know who the item belonged to and how much it was. Sometimes we would have a box or table where everything was 25 cents each or something and no names on it. The money for these was divided up among the kids so they got a little something from the sale too.

Oh, I know I hate that to. That is why if I don't mark something and I see someone near the table. I will tell them how much I am selling it for.

As long as they are marked in some way it really doesn't matter whether it is a tag or a sign. I just hate those that are not marked at all. After all, how would your customers know that your items are really cheap if they saw no prices anywhere. Some of the sales I visit may have really cheap prices, and I may have bought a lot of their things, but without prices anywhere to be found, I didn't bother to buy them and they missed out on the sales.

I rarely buy anything that does not have a price posted. Unless it is something that is already priced, I don't like to go to the extra trouble of asking, only to find out that the price is much higher than I am willing to pay.

exactly

I've seen this in stores to a few times and it always makes me wonder what they are thinking. I don't like seeing it in either place. It drives me nuts!