Dickering, Bargaining, Negotiating, and Haggling at Your Garage Sale!
Dickering, bargaining, and negotiating for a lower price is an accepted tradition in garage sale shopping. People will make you lower offers for your goods all weekend long and you must be prepared for it. You need to go about it right or you will lose a customer.
TIP: You must never make a customer feel embarrassed for making a lower offer for one of your items. Either accepts the offer with a smile or make a counter offer with a smile. If you are firm on your price, buyers will accept this too as long as you are gracious about it.
A garage sale is like the Turkish Bazaar , you may have seen in the movies. A friendly bit of repartee and spirited negotiation is all part of the fun. Did I say fun? Customers can sense if you are having a good time, and that means more sales!
A Typical Dickering Conversation:
Buyer: Would you take $12.00 for your clock?
Seller: I was asking $24.00 but I would take $15.00. How is that?
Another option for the seller is a polite refusal
Seller: I have about $40.00 in that clock, so $24.00 is the best I can do.
(When a refusal is done in a friendly way, the customer is not embarrassed and will most likely look at your other offerings.) If you try to play hard ball and embarrass the customer, they will be offended and will quickly leave.
Another place for selling some of your unusual items is Ebay. Garage sales and Ebay make a great partnership. Learn from an Ebay pro!
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