Hey! That’s next week’s puzzle fun! [;)]
Wow. That’s the first time I’ve ever been first out of the starting gate, and before it was even set up!
I feel weird…
I have a lot of garage sales experience thanks to my wife. We attended a weekly auction house locally. She for antiques and me for the occasional train piece or pieces to sell on eBay to raise money to support my train buying habit. Train stuff at a small local auction house doesn’t attract many bidders so I could usually get nice stuff cheap then resell on eBay. I made a few bucks that way. If there was more than one train piece, the auction house would sometimes put everything in one or two boxes. I ended up with stuff I didn’t want. Since some of what she bought was bundled with stuff she didn’t want she held garage sales to unload the unwanted stuff and I would sell the extra train stuff and a couple hundred Hot Wheels and Match box. She did fine. I did fine with the cars but not so much with the train stuff. It seemed as if no matter how cheaply I priced the train stuff, I always had somebody argue the price. Things were already at give away prices since I was just trying to get rid of it. I got real tired of people letting a dime make or break a deal. Yes I could have taken their offer but I can be more stubburn than you are an aggresive, cheap jerk. If you go into a garage sale thinking you are going to at least break even don’t bother. I did it to unload stuff I knew, after eBay and Pay Pal charges, I would make little to nothing on. Garage sales can tax your patients if you let it. If selling something to just to get rid of it, then do it. If the object is to sell to make a little money, that’s what you will get, especially now with all high unemployment. We just had a town wide garage sale semi-anual event, uusually a big deal. There was hardly any turn out. Because of the coronavirus or unemplyment or both? No I don’t particapate any more. Not in 5 years. I’d wait unt
About 2-3 years ago I took apart my Fastrak yard and posted it on Craigslist. It was built from 2005 to 2007. I had a lot of it and through possibly 10 or more buyers I sold it all getting around 2/3rds or more of what I paid for it in 2005-2007. Maybe just a Craigslist sale ad for the trains instead of the gar sale since most of what I have to sell is trains.
After reading all these comments gonna put in my two cents
Have done both shows and Garage sales more recently being able to post photos helps wether you are buying or selling but as some here stated it’s a gamble
Because 611 was in Strasburg in Oct of last year went to York for a day and was impressed last time I went was dissapointed (2003) but this time alot of stuff was there and prices were reasonable
And like most have turned to online sales (do NOT do Craig’s List to many Horror stories)with mixed results and yes I post an item and generally I get an offer that is well (Daffy Duck voice) Dispicable
The big problem with online shipping now is the cost when I took my trip west to see Big Boy (In Utah tried to follow it there and back to Wyoming did manage to see the passenger cars in Cheyenne but saw the whole thing in Ogden) leat the yard in Cheyenne was nice to see DID see the static big boy there AND the one in Colorado where you can see the interior coal bin was not as big as you would think. At any rate took a light package with me that sold before I left and thought It’s cheaper to ship a package from Colorado to Washington then from NY to there
or was it?
Unfortunately most of the buters now are people who want stuff cheap and those collecting for years now and they want it cheap
I try to put “sets” together since I got so much track or cabooses regardless of gauge and with FEW exceptions Ho 30.00 dollars and under Lionel 70.00 dollars and under all I get is ex opening bid for postwar UP set despite obvious flaws add extra pieces etc open bid 110
best offer w shipping 75.00 Sadly we got to wait and see