A comprehesive guide to have high dollar return at a garage sale. Included are secret pricing techniques, ways to write ads, little known product movement strategies, ways to influence people to want to buy, hints on how to bargain, and display tips to increase sales. A checklist for success - lists what needs to be done and when to do it, making it easy to whiz through a sale. Also included is information about antiques and colletibles. Quick recipes and exciting childrens activities enhance the garage sale experience.
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"This is truly the definitive work on how to have a successful garage sale. Advertising, pricing, display, bargaining, and creating an atmosphere are all covered. Hints on what to do with the children, how to prepare a meal during a garage sale marathon, and how to identify antiques are also covered. This is one book that public libraries, won't want to miss." -- Julie Mueller, Booklist, August 1989
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The author has 20 years of garage sale experince - both having sales and observing many other garage sales as a means of research for the book. She has taught a garage sale class at a local community college for a number of years. The college used her book as a student text book.
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seemed to me like a shameless rip-off,
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Look elsewhere, gentle reader. Everything in this pamphlet (truly, I consider this kind of effort a pamphlet, not a book) is really, really, painfully obvious.
My "favorite" part was the chapter devoted to "What To Do About Food During Your Garage Sale?" As far as I could tell, the chapter consisted of the author's recipes for meals. As in, you'll need to feed your family during a yard sale, so here are recipes you can cook for them. I could hardly believe my eyes: Is it really possible that she had absolutely no insider information to share, so she turned the book (pamphlet) into her personal cookbook? You know, I think I'll write a book (pamphlet) about bicycle repair and include a chapter called "What To Do About Food While Repairing Bicycles?". Then I'll point out that you might get hungry while repairing bicycles and I'll offer you twenty of my favorite recipes. Perhaps you're tempted to buy it anyway because of the Booklist review. How could it get such a rave review if it is completely stupid? That's a very good question. I bought the book because of the Booklist review myself. It is impossible for me to reconcile the utter uselessness of this book with the rave review it received from "Booklist" in 1989. I remember 1989, and journalists weren't any more or less out of touch with reality back then. So I can only imagine that Ms. Hines was a personal friend of the Booklist reviewer. Who knows? In any case, I predict you will think this book is not worth a single penny ...And that you will not be able to unload it on anybody else at your garage sale!
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