Yard Sale - pet peeves

[bdxample]

Was at an "Estate" sale yesterday. Actually the woman was cleaning out her mothers storage shed. I witnessed at least 3 different people asking the price on different things (that were laid out), only to be told that "no, I think I am keeping that" or something to that effect...grrr

 

[ole_grisley]

biggest peave well having a pile of jewerly or what ever in hand and having some oen try to yank it out of my hand and saying I BOUGHT THAT! when they did not . I even had one woman push me and then she made a fist all because she wanted me to get out so she could take all the stuff I had. MAN can they be visious lol

 

[Marty-Graw]

biggest peave well having a pile of jewerly or what ever in hand and having some oen try to yank it out of my hand and saying I BOUGHT THAT! when they did not . I even had one woman push me and then she made a fist all because she wanted me to get out so she could take all the stuff I had. MAN can they be visious lol

do NOT get between a woman and jewelry...especially if she is a dealer

 

[My Precious]

An add in the local newspaper stated a large moving/estate sale 9am - 4pm. I get there at 11 am, it's 20 miles away from my house, and don't see a sign at the address. No items outside, no people, no action. I'm just about to drive away when a couple of teens start coming out of the house... I ask if this is the place that's having a moving sale and the kid says...ahh well mom's went inside to take a nap right now. Very impressive!!

 

[Marty-Graw]

dont forget ....leaving at daylight to beat the other scavangers only to find out at 11:00 that your next door neighbor set up a yard sale after you left

 

[Seamuss]

The seller asking you to guess the price of an item because they don't know how to price their own junk. Then they act insulted when you quote a price that is similar to other yard sales.

I generally walk away from yard sales that can't tell me what they want for an item.

 

[cyberdan]

I generally walk away from yard sales that can't tell me what they want for an item.

I like to make an offer even if it is marked. I don't call mysef dollardan for nothin

 

[Tank69]

driving all over having to back track to read just one more crappy sign to finaly get there to find clothes that goodwill wouldnt take an a set of mag wheels for $800 an nothing else

 

[DPBOB]

My biggest pet peeve


All you people complain that there is no prices marked on an items....
Let me ask you if you had between 1000 and 1500 items to sell would you mark them all " I doubt it "

Open your mouth and ask? It's not that hard to do......
You just might find out that it's so cheap that you buy it.....

 

[TreasureHunters]

THE WORST IS OLD SIGNS .. follow them to address and no sale.. I love to take the signs to the address and throw them on their lawn with a post it note saying next time I inform the authorities (here it is illegal to leave signs up after the dates)

 

[jeff of pa]

how about signs that doesnt have a date on them .....you spend valuable time chasing down a yard sale that took place 3 weeks ago

They do that around here
You see signs From years gone by at times.
Of course most of them you can tell by Condition,
But wood Placards seem to last Forever
Even though the Yard sales don't.

 

[cyberdan]

THE WORST IS OLD SIGNS .. follow them to address and no sale.. I love to take the signs to the address and throw them on their lawn with a post it note

Can't do that here the lazy bums are one step ahead of you.

They put up a lot of arrow-yardsale signs (no addresses) When the sale is over they just pull down the last signs to their block and no way to know where the sale was.

 

[Pirate Dirty Jack Rackham]

I pretty much gave up going to yard sales in my general area. Im probably the only person that can find the same items people are selling at yard sales CHEAPER on ebay! Out here its tough to find anything older then 40 years at yard sales...and thats if you're lucky! People go crazy when they have something that's older...its like they automatically think its extremely valuable just because its old!

I live in an area where most neighborhoods are less then 20 years old, so many people here view an item from the 1960's or 70's as an antique! Its actually upsetting. Ugly lamps with huge stained shades and people want $300.00 for a pair!! I actually saw the same ugly lamps on ebay for $45.00 which was still overpriced IMO! end rant/

 

[cyberdan]

Mt newest pet peeves:
I research my yardsales friday afternoon for the saturday morning trip. This happened six times last friday. Someone will list their sale with just two cross streets. No address at all and a couple of times they did not even say the city they are in. I ignored four sales because I do not want to waste my time and gas hunting for them. But two sales listed silver for sale. So I tracked down where they were and added them to my route.

One I could never find, I got to the intersection and NO SIGNS anywhere the other one also had no signs but I had to go thru the intersection and about half a block down there were signs.

I have a GPS and I make a route and just plug in the addresses and go to each in order. Saves a lot of time and gas.

One community yard sale is put on by a local real estate company and they gave two streets as a starting point. Both run north and south and never intersect. That is a fad out here now. Many realtors are doing this.

 

[Seamuss]

The seller asking you to guess the price of an item because they don't know how to price their own junk. Then they act insulted when you quote a price that is similar to other yard sales.

I generally walk away from yard sales that can't tell me what they want for an item.

I generally walk away from yard sales that can't tell me what they want for an item.

I like to make an offer even if it is marked. I don't call mysef dollardan for nothin

I did make offer and he got huffy. That's why I walked away.

 

[Produce Guy]

Here's something I do when people don't take their signs down,I write on the signs and say please ring door bell for more viewing.