Garage Sale Pet Peeves

[detectingarizona]

another pet peeve of mine is when you go to a garage sale, and you start to pick up something and the owners yell at you to put it down, this was at about 3 in the afternoon and it was about 105, and their were lots of sales foing on around and being yelled at like a little kid is just rude, they didnt even sell anything, even a 50 hot wheel, kept saying put it down, it is 5 dollers, :|

 

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[dejapooh]

I hate lines for estate sales. Estate sales are so often useless to me, that I refuse to WAIT in order to not buy something.

I hate the stupid spouse. "This is $1"
Stupid Spouse comes in, "That is $150, we paid $5000 for it just yesterday"

I hate Unfriendlies... I try to be upbeat, friendly, and so on. I hate grumps.

I hate Ebay price sheets. They find something like theirs on Ebay, and that person is selling it for $50, so they feel justified asking $45. See, I could make a profit too! (Hint, If I can't make at least 3 times my money, it's not worth my time).

I hate Garage sales that are in the back yard... Without any signs... With the doors closed...

I hate it when they say they will start at 8, and they are closing up at 9:15.

I hate it when I show up at 7:30, and they say I have to wait, and I can't even LOOK at their stuff until 8.

Still, I love to go to Garage sales.

 

[mjm579]

I have to agree with you. Here is another one to add to the list. A pair of women with a half dozen wild kids. While the kids are picking up everything on the tables and you are trying to keep them under control the women are huddled together over your best bluejean table, speaking in whispered spanish, and switching price tags. That will not happen again. We now use a tag gun like the stores use.

Like....

 

[mjm579]

Add here - LOVE (HATE) the old people with five items that set up...I'm pretty sure they ate just lonely and need someone to talk to. LOVE to talk to old people....SOOOOO much knowledge. HATE that it wastes half of my good yard sale time.

 

[mjm579]

LOL, I should start pulling up to garage sales and yelling "Hey, do you have any gold or silver items that you didn't know about and priced for cheap!?"

Double LIKE

 

[mjm579]

Best story!!! my mom and sister have a garage sale few times a year. and my Mom had some old clothes she was selling. Some guy came browsing picking still out, one of his items was a pair of my moms jeans with some feminine print, thought nothing of it. Few months later they have another one. Who shows up?!?!? The same guy wearing my moms pants!!!!!! Hahahahaha

No joke, I was at the thrift store the other day and this scruffy looking guy says "do you have any women's hosiery?". WTF?

 

[mjm579]

I hate lines for estate sales. Estate sales are so often useless to me, that I refuse to WAIT in order to not buy something.

I hate the stupid spouse. "This is $1"
Stupid Spouse comes in, "That is $150, we paid $5000 for it just yesterday"

I hate Unfriendlies... I try to be upbeat, friendly, and so on. I hate grumps.

I hate Ebay price sheets. They find something like theirs on Ebay, and that person is selling it for $50, so they feel justified asking $45. See, I could make a profit too! (Hint, If I can't make at least 3 times my money, it's not worth my time).

I hate Garage sales that are in the back yard... Without any signs... With the doors closed...

I hate it when they say they will start at 8, and they are closing up at 9:15.

I hate it when I show up at 7:30, and they say I have to wait, and I can't even LOOK at their stuff until 8.

Still, I love to go to Garage sales.

One thrift store in my area totally does the eBay sheet comparison. Um, just bc someone has it listed for that, doesn't mean that it sold for that price. Total CRAP!

 

[Rawhide]

I buy a abandoned storage sheds about twice a month. I end up with all sorts of house hold items I cant do much with. I have never had a issue with any yard sale except for unappropiate items that I missed when I placed stuff out. Now Craigslist, dont get me started. After 20 questions, on a used vacume, I get low balled. I price things cheap, just to move it. I placed a 500% markup on the cl ad and posted it could be found at the Salvation Army after Friday. Im getting out of the junk business, it goes straight to the dump. Let em buy that cheap china made stuff over at the good ol Walmart. I do still make donations on slightly used stuff.

 

[jerseyben]

I understand that things may be a bit different in your part of the country but I can honestly say...

I go to a couple hundred sales every year and with some of these posts/stories I don't even know what you guys are talking about.

You guys need to be a little more flexible/open minded. Not everyone has the exact same perspective when it comes to shopping/buying/selling. Try not to get so wrapped up in your own "rules" and personal behaviors.

 

[giniro]

I get kind of annoyed when looking for garage sale postings on craigslist and people put an ad up for a sale that's happening in 2 weeks or even as far as a month away. Then the week of I don't see a listing and forget about it.

 

[cyberdan]

one (of many) of my pet peeves.

I find something I want and ask how much.
They don't know and want me to make an offer.
So I probably make a one dollar offer.
They say no and then just stand there like an idiot.

Have they never heard of a counteroffer?
Maybe they want me to counter my own lowball offer.
Next time I will counter with 50¢

 

[randazzo1]

I can deal with all the whackos, weirdos, dim bulbs and even people who think they are selling gold when they really just have an old waffle iron. It adds to the color and enjoyment of the experience. The only ones that really get to me are the mean ones. After going to enough sales (garage/estate/whatever) you inevitably run into one or two of them. They are so desperate (which perhaps entitles them to some iota of mercy) that they forget that despite being at the sale, they are still participating in a societal interaction. Examples include: physically pulling items away from other people; excessively using their bodies to block other customers from areas (this is part of the fun to some degree, but these troglodytes take it to a new level); and disrespecting seniors and kids. I understand that, in addition to being fun, the purpose of these activities is to generate profits - that's certainly why I show up sales at 6:00 AM and wait on a line. But these "mean" people are different -- they behave like socio paths. I imagine that these are the same people who, seeing a long line of cars waiting to exit the highway, speed past the line and then bully their way in at the exit point. They do that because they believe that "they are special" .

That said -- If I came across the right piece of 18th century American silver - at an incredible price - I would have to body check the old lady, step on her grandson, flip off the other shoppers and then cut them off on the turnpike on the way back to my keep! (j/k of course).

 

[isabella1]

New one. This is an estate sale we have to charge sales tax!!!! It ticks me off!

 

[GMD52]

In that case you ask to see their state sales tax certificate!

 

[clorox]

I can deal with all the whackos, weirdos, dim bulbs and even people who think they are selling gold when they really just have an old waffle iron.

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[centfladigger]

WOW, $1500 for that? I LOVE IT,lol

 

[cyberdan]

This is an estate sale we have to charge sales tax!!!! It ticks me off!

I knew that was going to happen at one "estate" sale so I brought my "resale" card that allows me to buy tax free.

 

[dejapooh]

one (of many) of my pet peeves.

I find something I want and ask how much.
They don't know and want me to make an offer.
So I probably make a one dollar offer.
They say no and then just stand there like an idiot.

Have they never heard of a counteroffer?
Maybe they want me to counter my own lowball offer.
Next time I will counter with 50¢

OHHHH... Like I want to Buy it and Sell it at the same time. From now on I am going to say, "Lets negotiate. I'll start at a penny. Where do you want to start?"

 

[MariahGreer]

beanie babies.... LOL. i have like 6 big boxes of them i cant get rid of, along with just as many star trek figures

 

[treasurefiend]

I bought 5 "Franklin Mint" plates at a garage sale maybe 10 years ago for $40, they have different 3 Stooges scenes on them. I LOVE the 3 Stooges and still have them in my china hutch (not displayed) LOL, at one time when I was single I had my home office decked out with tons of 3 Stooges crap. Funny how things get changed when a girl moves in with you... HAHAHA

Hmm seeing as I can't put them up in the house I think I oughta dig them out and put them up and proudly display my "collector" plates in the garage around my kegorator!!!