You know you are at an over priced rummage sale when....

I agree people should price it to get rid of it. If they want to make a substantial profit then they should e-bay or consign the items.

I thought that was what a yard sale was for... getting rid of stuff you dont need or want any more! Pricing things high is not going to let you meet that goal! Plus..why go through all that if you don't sell anything! I am a saler from way back. I have had them and been to them all my life. But today...as you say... people just don't know how to have a sale. $1 for VHS tapes..that is high,....theya re more 50 cents. You can still buy a VHS player for about $30, but..with DVD's having been out and all...I have just watched sales and bought the same movies I have on VHS on DVD. Now I have them forever. I just recently had a yard sale with my daughter. I live in a "edge of town" area..and the area is about lower middle class, just cause it is away from the city a bit...but right by a golf course! Houses are nice,but we are just to far to drive for a yard sale or even to get the signs out good enough. But we tried. My daughter had lot of high priced things...she is a spender. She had her stuff priced low and still..it didn't sell. All her clothes did as they were upper pricey clothes and she was selling them for under a buck, but really other than that it was hit and miss. I sold a car seat and a total of $40 worth, but then I didn't have to much anyway as I just move there and got rid of so much before I moved. But her daughter is starting junior high this fall and is getting rid of all her "tween" and kid toys...and those things were priced low and none sold. Stuff like Zhu Zhu pets, My Little pony, Littlest Pet shop stuff...They had a bunch of cell phone cases - Ed Hardy stuff...kitchen stuff for playing "house" and dolls...and none of it sold! I now have some of those things listed on Craig's list and The Recycler...I sold the one kitchen set..(sink/stove and dishes) but other than that..not a single offer on any of it! And it is good stuff, cheap price! I don't get it. Years ago that stuff would have been gone by noon on yard sale day! But what I really hate is when they say (this has happened to me!) "will you take ...." and make a stupid low offer and aying that is all they have.. and I'd feel nice and sorry for them and let them have it and they'd give me a $20 bill to pay for it!!! Just this time.. I had a child's car seat..infant size to toddler. $25. Retailed for $65. I offered to drop it to $20 to this lady as she was looking at it and it was near the end of the day...so I said I'd drop the price to $20. She said great, she'll take it and went back to her car to get her money. She comes back and says.. "Will you take $14? That is all I have with me". I said yes as I wanted to get rid of the seat as I have had it for a few years and no kid.. so I was the nice guy and said, yeah, sure, $14 is fine. SHe hands me $14 dollars. THEN she goes to her car and comes back with her son... and he wants some of these books we had and he choose a couple and she pays me for them with a $20!!!! I swear! I am nice enough to offer to come down on the price, then nice enough to take her even lower offer and find out she was just lieing and shafting me as she had the first price all along! I almost said something, but didn't.. what good would it have done and at least the stuff was gone. Had we had a better day, I wouldn't have taken the $14 but it wasn't that good so I just took what I could get so I didn't have to haul it back into the garage! Some people!

My kids would of gone nuts for the tween stuff you had. Sadly I've taken to looking on craigslist instead of wasteing my time stopping at every rummage I see unless it looks like they have kids stuff. My almost 10yr old can wear an XS or XXS in Jr's as a long tee so I look for Jr's stuff and many of those sales they also sell them for higher price but it's hit or miss on pricing no matter where you go. I won't say my hubby isn't guilty of low balling for something. He bought a tee shirt that was still in a package for .25 I don't know what it was marked but he was proud of getting it for .25. As when he comes with us he usually goes and checks out the rummages and see's if the prices are what I'm looking for and if they have kids stuff so I hold the money he has whatever is in his pocket. Sometimes it's easier than buckling the kids in and out of the van.

Exactly! People think things are worth more than they are! Yes they were truly out to get you in the examples you mentioned. Who'd pay that for a matchbox car you can find them for a dollar new usually.

Not here they wouldn't! People in my area are known for looking for deals and using tons of coupons. And you are right there's a difference between buying something a lil outdated for a chairity or community organization then someone who lives in a half million dollar house trying to make their mortgage payment from the looks of the prices.

Yes indeed fancy name = higher prices. However, I've seen store brands for say like k-mart marked at $2 a shirt now if it was NWT perhaps but otherwise no!

I'd be mad about that phone forsure! I see your logic too, but that's some nerve (but yet not a surprise) to sell something that doesn't work for $8, they should of sold it to you for $2-3 and a note that only one handset worked. I'd never spend $175 on a playstation w/o fully knowing it worked let alone the fact that it's probably an older model and I'd want a ton of games for that price. Plus I'd want to know if it was something if I got sick of it I could take it to GameStop and trade it in. BTW good to see you posting again! :)

If they were in excellent condition and perhaps with the luck in finding a collector of such things and willing to pay. Like you, if it looks like bunk and you are not familiar with the prices they go for on say e-bay ect then they are sol and probably have been watching too much antiques road show!

How you feel about the sandbox is how I feel about the clothes. You mentioned paying $5 for an Areo shirt, we were there the other week for kicks to browse and you know they had shirts on clearance for $6, dresses for $8 so it's not like it's a deal to pay what you are willing to pay for used when new is almost what they are asking for.

I agree time to move on. It's hard enough sometimes to spot the rummages with kids stuff then to find that it's a mint is another. My kids often give me this look of "we're leaving already?"... there's no point in looking for a needle in the haystack sort of deal when everything else is more than one wanted to pay. You could of easily found a dress in a thrift store or another rummage for a fraction of that!