Garage Sale Magic!: How to Turn Your 'Trash' into Cash
- Book Review,
by Pam Williams, Michael Williams
Midwest Book Review
Garage Sale Magic is an easy-to-read book that deals with all the most important elements of garage sales. Garage Sale Magic includes such information as where to find things to sell, how to get free advertising, and what to do with leftovers after the sale. Michael and Pam (veteran garage sale entrepreneurs) cover every "tip, trick & technique" in the business of conducting a successful garage sale enterprise. Garage Sale Magic is filled with valuable, useful, and practical information. Garage Sale Magic is highly recommended for personal and community library acquisition.
New Choices, 1995 "Money's Worth" column
How To Hold A Successful Garage Sale: Whether we're cleaning old furniture and tools out of the garage to make room for the car or liquidiating a relative's estate, a yard sale can make the job relatively easy and very profitable - if it's done right. Garage Sale Magic! by Michael and Pam Williams (Freedom Publishing Co) suggests many ways to "move the merchandise." Here are a few: *The most successful garage sales run three days, beginning on Friday and running through Sunday. *Don't rely on posted notices exclusively; place ads in local newspapers. *Try to get free publicity through a press release. It's more likely to be used if you provide a news angle. For example, you could announce you will be donating a percentage of the receipts to cancer research. *Whenever it's legitimate, use the term "estate sale." It attracts more buyers than "yard sale." *Price most items at 25 percent of retail; outdated electronic goods and clothes are usually discounted much more. If you price one item too high and buyers know it, they'll think everything is priced too high.
Midwest Book Review, 5/96
Garage Sale Magic! is an easy-to-read book that deals with all the most important elements of garage sales. Garage Sale Magic! includes such information as where to find things to sell, how to get free advertising, and what to do with leftovers after the sale. Michael and Pam (veteran garage sale entrepreneurs) cover every "tip, trick & technique" in the business of conducting a successful garage sale enterprise. Garage Sale Magic! is filled with valuable, useful, and practical information. Garage Sale Magic! is highly recommended for personal and community library acquisition.
Booklist, 10/96
The Williamses, husband and wife, examine the zany world of garage sales and their subculture in an enthusiastic, peppy little book. Peppy may be an understatement: the Williamses average well over one exclamation point per paragraph, a rate previously reached only in comic books! Their advice ranges far and wide. They handle the obvious stuff --pricing, advertising, setup-- matter-of-factly, then plunge into the very depth of the garage sale ethos with counsel on, among other tricks of the trade, going to other garage sales and flea markets to accumulate merchandise for your own garage sale! This becomes a step-by-step plan for completely surrendering your life to the search for that perfect $5 lamp, not to use, but to buy low and sell high! Like many another introduction to an alternative lifestyle, this one may benefit two kinds of readers; those simply interested in chucking a truckload of junk without paying landfill charges, and the more serious types who want entree into the full-blown World of Rummage. Live long and prosper, entrepreneurs of excess stuff!
Book Description
Over 60,000,000 people conduct their own, or go to garage sales every year. Garage Sale Magic! is the #1 book on garage sales, written by America's garage sale experts. Now you can get the easy step-by-step approach that Michael and Pam Williams have used scores of times over the past 20 years. Their sales take in over $2,500 every time, over a three day period. See how Michael and Pam Williams do it, enjoy their light humor and illustrations, and above all, have fun! The authors also created the Garage Sale Magic! video, which follows the Williams at three separate garage sales, and shows you how they handle each of the step-by-step lessons from their book. The video is narrated by TV star David Leisure. Reviews and acclaim too numerous to mention, including Mademoiselle Magazine, Johnson City Press, The Book Corner, Chicago Books In Review, Book Beat, Living Cheaply News, The Evening Leader, New Choices' Money's Worth, Bottom Line Tomorrow, American Library Association, and dozens of newspapers across the country.
From the Publisher
I've watched the Williams conduct numerous garage sales, and their results are truly amazing. They reveal that they make at least $2,500 at each sale, and I have no reason to doubt them, now that I've seen them in action.
From the Author
PAM - "Although Mike does most of the heavy lifting before the sale begins, I can't wait for the sale to begin. I meet so many people, and see lots of the same folks every year at our sales. They are so anxious to see when our sales are, some people actually stop by our house early in springtime, so they don't miss it." MICHAEL - "Even though I do most of the heavy lifting [smile], I know I'm going to have fun during the sale. It's a great feeling to have someone pay us to take away our trash. Even though it's not actually trash, it's stuff we can no longer use, so all it does is take up space. Why not get rid of it, turn it into real money, pay some bills, and treat yourself to something real nice?
From the Back Cover
Turn your trash into cash! Do you know that you are sitting on a gold mine? The 'junk' in your house could be worth thousands of dollars! Mike & Pam Williams, veterans of garage sales for over 20 years that have produced incredible results, detail the strategy that has made them experts in the garage sale business, and shows you how to generate cash fast! In this entertaining and informative book, the Williams have given you everything you need to maximize your garage sale profits and have fun at the same time. Important Secrets Revealed Inside Include: * Dozens of ideas on what you can sell. * Places you never thought of to look for more 'stuff'. * What to sell if all you have is junk. * The best way to price items for quick sale. * How to get FREE ADVERTISING & other great marketing tips! * Fool-proof methods of easy, effortless negotiation. * The four easiest ways to lose credibility with a purchaser. * How to handle an apartment/condo garage sale. * The six best things to do with your leftovers. * Why everyone selling their home must have a garage sale! * How to prepare a sale for Charity or Fundraising. * Cashing In On Garage Sales... ...and dozens of other secrets to maximize your garage sale profits!!!
About the Author
Michael and Pam Williams have conducted their own garage sales for two decades; and as a result of their incredible successes, have actually 'consulted' and run dozens of others for various friends, family members and customers. They have refined their approach from years of trial and error to put together an efficient sale, and have fun while doing so. They maintain that their own sales never generate less than $2,500, and those who visit their sale can see why. The authors also created the Garage Sale Magic! video, which follows the Williams at three separate garage sales, and shows you how they handle each of the step-by-step lessons from their book. The video is narrated by TV star David Leisure.
Excerpted from Garage Sale Magic! : How to Turn Your 'Trash' into Cash by Pam Williams and Michael Williams. Copyright © 1994. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
WHY ARE GARAGE SALES SO POPULAR? It is estimated that over 60,000,000 people in the United States go do garage sales each year. Why is that? For many reasons, but most importantly: * Most garage sale customers go to the sales in order to find bargains; both to find a specific item (clothes, t.v. set, etc.) or to 'shop around', and see what they can find. * There are some garage sale 'junkies' who do this for a hobby (or even a living), by looking for 'steals'. These people are more knowledgeable about antiques and valuables, and are looking for a 'diamond in the rough'. There have been hundreds of stories of people who unwittingly sell a valuable antique, baseball card, or other collectable for several dollars, without realizing what they had. * A great many of the garage sale visitors are people who are just 'shopping', or passing the time. To many, this is a fund, pressure-free environment where people go to look through others' treasures, and if they find something they like, will proceed to bid on it. Where else can someone go shopping, and 'name their price'?
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