Hi! I am wondering if there is a way to figure out how to price stuff in general. I am not very good with it. This stuff is all my married daughter's. If it was mine, I could probably figure better, but she can't remember what she paid, and doesn't have time to do it. Don't know if there might be someone willing to let me email then with questions when I get through the boxes or could tell me roughly a percentage to charge? This is basically all barely used stuff. There are coffee pots, cloth napkins, shoes that you can't even see are worn, cloth tablecloths (one had price tag of $34 on it from Kohl's), cloth placemats, a set of 16 oz. glasses, curtains. This was in 3 boxes. I didn't get in the boxes in the cellar yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA

When pricing, price in increments of 25 cents so you only have to keep quarters and dollars in your startup money. Also remember, you will have a better day if you price things to sell and not price things to keep. People love to haggle but remember, you are trying to get rid of it! Group things together to sell. For instance, you have a tablecloth, do you have some plates or a service set to go with it? You could put them together and sell the set even higher! People won't pay $3 for a tablecloth at a garage sale (if you went 10% that's what it would be) but they might pay $10 for a hostess kit in a box!! I hate going to garage sales where people won't budge on their goods because they think it's worth the $$ but why are they trying to get rid of something just to hold on to it for later??

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I agree with only price things in increments of .25 so you don't have to have dimes and nickels...much easier!

Pricing: I price new with tag items for 75% of retail price. I have been told by others in other areas you can't get it but I do (and barely have hagglers). I price barely used name brand clothes for $2-$4 a piece, depending on the brand and jeans are normally $2-$3. I have lots of $1 items as well. I would say that for a standard name brand coffee pto you could probably get 10% of retail cost (so $5-$10). A $34 tablecloth I would sell for $2.50-$3 (roughly 10%). It really depends on your area. I always do well with my sales but if your area expects things for less, you might have to price lower

Good luck

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I also depends on if you want to get rid of the junk or make money?

I just want to clear it out, I have too much and anything that doesn't sell goes to the church for their rummage sale the next weekend, unless it's something really good.

My MIL sees what she's paid for some of the stuff and she prices it way to high and it sits. For example, she had a southwestern themed picture from Home Interiors or something, it was faded and dusty, but she put $15 on it because she paid $60. Too bad it was only worth $2 and she will probably have it there again at this yard sale.

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I agree I have someone who does this at every garage sale we have she says well I paid alot of money for that dang thing so she prices too high & it sits forever. As for clothes & stuff & toys I price very cheaply but stockpile items I price close to what I paid & they are always the first to go

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mom of 3 greats girls

Thanks for all the answers. I don't want to price it too high, as I do want to sell the stuff for her. I will use the .25 guideline. I had one a few years back and put .05 and .10 on items. That was a hassle! Gosh, I hope this is the last one I will have!

I had one last year and I was really just trying to get rid of things. I didn't have any trinkets or junk (those just would have gone in the trash) so I put signs out that stated "Everything is $1, unless otherwise marked!" This way, I only had to put stickers on higher ticket items (lawn mower, furniture, etc.). I thought this was such a good idea and was so proud of myself for not over pricing things (a lot of it was new, unfortunately, due to my Target clearance addiction). I had a lot of nice, name brand kids clothes (again, anything with stains or tears was thrown in the trash) and I was thrilled that I didn't have to price each piece.

It was a huge failure! I had the $1 signs staked in the yard and taped to every table or shelf, but people were still terribly confused! I could not believe how many times I was asked, "How much is this? There's no sticker." or "Will you take $0.50 for this." I guess if it's worth $5, but marked $1, people are still going to try to get a lower price! People almost seemed suspicious that some things were only marked $1.

So, I don't have any advice, just wanted to share my disastrous attempt at making garage sale pricing easy! Good luck!

I price to make money and sell. No reason you can't do both I always sell at my prices but it may be my neighborhood...who knows???? About mid day on your last day of the sale, you can also post a sigh like "50% off lowest marked price" to get the rest of the stuff out of the door! It works for us

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