$20 to place an ad in the paper!
@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
Perth, Australia
May 24, 2019 5:25am CST
I rang a local paper this morning to place an ad in for a garage sale I'm going to have. It was free for me to do which was good but then she asked if I would also like this placed into another Newspaper we have here. I was going to say yes until she told me that it would be $20 to do.
I do know that there are some papers out there that will cost you money to place an ad in and usually they charge you per letter / per word but 20 bucks to place an itty bitty notice in the paper? No thank you.
I'm trying hard to make and save money. I don't know how much I will sell during my garage sale but I don't want to spend $20 on it. I will advertise it as much as I can for free. 
I have a lot to do to get ready for this garage sale but still plenty of time yet. It will be on the 8th of June, Saturday.
I have a lot to do to get ready for this garage sale but still plenty of time yet. It will be on the 8th of June, Saturday.21 people like this
13 responses
@tech40 (23128)
• Philippines
27 May 19
@VivaLaDani13 $20, for how many days in the newspaper?
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@tech40 (23128)
• Philippines
27 May 19
@VivaLaDani13 It seems not worth it then if they'll only publish for Saturday and Sunday and it depends how many readers do they have, do they have statistics how many newspapers they can sell?
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@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
27 May 19
@tech40 I think for the week. I'm not sure. I don't know how often their paper goes out. Maybe every Saturday or Sunday, not sure.
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@yoalldudes (35040)
• Philippines
24 May 19
What about community garage sales. A lot of people flock those. How do they schedule? The neighborhood seems to know about it. I've seen it in youtube.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
24 May 19
@yoalldudes That is a good idea and definitely something I have considered but not too sure about that just yet as there is almost always a fee for that. There are some held every weekend that I know of.
@yoalldudes (35040)
• Philippines
25 May 19
@VivaLaDani13 Maybe the fee is cheaper.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
25 May 19
@yoalldudes It's about the same price in the locations I've looked up. So my best chance for now is at my house where I'm free to do so. Then maybe sometime after that I can venture out in another location.
@few00cent (2183)
• India
25 May 19
I don't blame them as they are doing business but I think you will get potential buyers from social media and free classified site.
Something similar happened with my cousin when he was in hurry to sell his car.One of the classified site insisted him for premium listing saying blah blah and he went for it paying $15 but he got the buyer quickly from the another free classified site and closed deal.
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@few00cent (2183)
• India
26 May 19
@VivaLaDani13 yeah if you are not in hurry,just wait for the right deal.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
24 May 19
@VivaLaDani13 That's a great range of things. I'm sure you'll sell a lot.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
24 May 19
@MALUSE Thank you for the positive comment! I sure hope so! 
@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
24 May 19
@MALUSE Clothes, jewellery, toys, DVD's, CD's, VHS tapes, shoes, handbags, games, crystals bowls / other kitchenware and other bits and bobs.
@Julie555 (4155)
• Russian Federation
24 May 19
@VivaLaDani13 you are welcome my friend
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@MommyOfEli2013 (82098)
• Rupert, Idaho
25 May 19
I have heard of them charging per letter or word....20 is kind of pricey though for sure! Good luck on your garage sale! We want to have a yard sale ourselves very soon.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
24 May 19
Yes it is crazy to spend money to make money at least that is how I feel about it.
Good luck Dani.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
24 May 19
That's really expensive because I know $20 Aussie equals more in US$.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
24 May 19
@JohnRoberts Sure does. I just looked it up out of curiosity and $20 AUD equals to $13.83 USD.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
24 May 19
@dya80dya It really is. I'm sure it would help gain more people to come but I'd rather keep the $20 and take my chances.
@VivaLaDani13 (60485)
• Perth, Australia
25 May 19
@Sojourn So true! Some papers are just more expensive than others.
Thank you very much! :)
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By the way good luck with your garage sale