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Please forgive me but I know I can get answers here!
This has NOTHING to do with Disney, but you guys give such good answers, I figured-what the heck .
I am having a yard sale next weekend. I am getting rid of a ton of movies (vhs and dvd's), and cd's among many other things that are cluttering up my house!! This is going towards my Disney trip in Sept '08 , so I hope I sale TONS!!!
For those of you out there that have sold and/or bought these types of things-what did u sale them for or buy them for? I have NO IDEA what to sale them for.
Thanks for any ideas . PS I am NOT selling any of my Disney movies .
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I did have several Disney VHS for sale at a garage sale 2 years ago. I priced them and $3.00 each - didn't sell that many. I also had CD's that I think we priced at $3 or $4.00 each. Some went, some didn't. Good luck.
In September I sold VHS tapes for 50cents (they were mostly used and bought from previous yard sales) and DVD's for $1. I sold most of them. I believe that in yard sales your items need to be priced to sell or you're going to be holding onto them for another year.
The one thing I couldn't get rid of were the computer games. Does anyone out there want a Wiggles computer game?
We just had a yard sale last weekend and I sold the VHS's for 50 cents, if it was a double VHS set $1 and the DVD's for $2. I tried to base the prices on what they sell for at the Goodwill and ended up selling all of them.
The lady down the street tried $5, then $4, then $3; mostly fairly new movies, but very few sold. Last bunch I bought at a garage sale, I paid $2-3 each, and they were fairly new movies.
DH sells our old DVD's on Half.com. They give you an idea on there of how much things are selling for. Most he gets between $5-$8 for depending on their condition.
DVD's are hit & miss & most of the ones I've seen sell ARE Disney.. I would stick a price tag on them of $1-$2 & then let the buyers offer less ( which they will 99.9% of the time) so let your price be a little higher than you're willing to go.. & even offer discounts " buy 3 get 1 free" type things.. if people think they're getting a great bargain they are more likely to buy .
If you also just want them out of your house ( with a profit) place a sign on the box saying " make offer on all!" I'll be they'll be gone in an
Just had our Garage Sale last week - for VHS tapes - if it's a single tape, people expect to be able to pay 25-50 cents. We've had lots of people giggle and tell us that they just went to another sale and someone had them priced for $1 or $2 and that they would never pay that. There seems to be a real market for people at garage sales looking for VHS at that price. 25-50 cents will sell your tapes - anything higher and you might still sell some, just not as quickly and not as many. Double Tape sets go for 75 cents - $1 and full boxed sets can get around $2-$3 depending on the set. Of course, it's all subjective to who comes to your sale and what they'll buy. Last weekend, I sold a freezer bag full of about 15 plastic cups my 3 year old gets when we go out to eat. Someone paid 75 cents for all 15 of them.
One other thought - around here, we have a place called "Bookman's". They offer trade credit for books, movies, music, collectibles, etc. What doesn't sell at our garage sale goes there and then we have "trade credit" to buy other stuff. You might have something similar in your neck of the woods. Good Luck!
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Normal scott answer: Sell them for a million dollars a piece! That way you
only have to sell one!!
Werid actual useful
answer! I would take all my good tapes of all sorts and sell them
to second hand music stores!! They usually take most
of the good ones, and you might get more money that way.
Normal scott answer: Sell them for a million dollars a piece! That way you
only have to sell one!!
Werid actual useful
answer! I would take all my good tapes of all sorts and sell them
to second hand music stores!! They usually take most
of the good ones, and you might get more money that way.
great answer . I will let you all know how I do . Thanks again for all the help.
Whenever I do a yard sale, I do so with the idea to thin down my household junk (and the money is just an extra incentive), so I will price things to sell as I feel that any money I get out of it is more than I would have had keeping the junk in my house.
I have one huge rule: If it goes outside to sell then it never comes back in. What remainder I do not sell, I send to the local charities in town. PERIOD.
So I guess what I would do is price them to sell if it's the space you want. If you're trying to gain extra money, then Ebay might be the better way to go.
I believe that in yard sales your items need to be priced to sell or you're going to be holding onto them for another year.
I agree - if the goal is to get them outta your house, then price them between 50 cents and $1. They will go to good homes *and* you will get some money out of the exchange.
That's how I look at yard sales!
Eileen
PS - this is the *perfect* place to post questions like these. The whole PassPorter Villa section is for stuff that is about our general lives and does not have to be related to Disney in any way.
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