What price should I set for these garage sale items?

$1 on every individual garment..
25¢ on books.
Bike. $100

Dresses, also.

$3/pair of shoes

$3/top

25 cents per book, or $1 for 5

$100 for the bike.

i say $2 on the clothes and shoes, books, if you want to get rid of a lot quickly, sell them like 2 for $1, the bike, try to get $100. i always see tag sales where people sell stuff for a lot of money, and they have to remember: this is not new, from a store, in a bag, untouched, where the buyer has a big choice. Also, you have to decide whether or not you may want to keep it at end of day. price it for too much money, you’ll be keeping it. price it to sell, it will move.

This very topic was on the Today show today!
The sizes you have in women’s unfortunately won’t go quickly. Petite and small sizes aren’t in big demand if you get my drift. (Wish I lived in your neighborhood, I would go nuts!)
50 cents for paperbacks, 1.00 for hardbacks.
Shoes I would start out at 2 or 3 dollars and as the day progresses, lower the price.
1.00 for tops, 3 or 4 dollars on dresses.
I wouldn’t really put a price on the bicycle, just see if people look at it and mosey over and then start talking price.
The show today said to set up as if you were a real store. All shoes together, books together, clothes together. The show said your goal should be to get rid of your stuff, not to make a lot of money.

2 bucks for clothes and shoes. with the bike, i’m not sure….i guess it depends the shape it’s in. you might be better off selling that on craigslist or something? people tend to not want to spend more than a few dollars at a garage sale and if the bike is worth more than that then why not try to get more for it?

Thanks, everyone! Unless anyone thinks it won’t work, I think I’ll try $3 for one item, $5 for two items and $20 for ten items (or maybe less but keep a similar incentive for quantity).

What follows is a tongue-in-cheek list of Rummage Sale Regulations

1) If you have something of value, realize that a rummage sale is not the best venue to get top dollar. Leave that to Ebay where collectors and buyers who are well-informed about any given product will know and appreciate it’s value.

2) In conjunction with the above, please price your items to sell. Honestly, sometimes the prices are so high, I simply walk away! Forget dickering – “would you take 1/6th of your asking price?!” If you are that enamoured with your stuff, perhaps you should keep it

3) Continuing on, as an educated shopper, if your items are priced too high, I would much prefer to buy them new at a slightly higher price and go home with a new item that I can return if I like.

4) Please don’t list the name brands on the price sticker. Honestly, we can figure it out! It leaves one with the impression that you are either trying to give us an adrenaline rush by putting forth brand-names in our faces, or else you are listing it to blatantly up the price significantly. Brand-names are nice, however, the item is still used and often shows obvious signs of use. Trust me, if we name-brands meant THAT much to us, we would cut the name-brand tags out of our own clothes and pin them on the outside of the garment

5) When there is a neighborhood rummage, we love it when you have edible items for sale – we become ravenous during the process and heaven forbid we stop long enough to eat! While we’re willing to pay premium, $1.00 for a wee cookie is a bit much, don’t you think? Love being able to buy water bottles, too.

6) Often, we will not ask or bother with an item if it isn’t priced. I’m sure a marketing major could explain the philosophy behind this

7) I’m really sorry to say this, but some of you should really rent a dumpster instead of having a rummage. “Give me your tired, your poor…the wretched refuse of your teeming shore” is not referring to your stuff, but is actually a poem about the Statue of Liberty

8) Lastly, where I’d really like to rummage is from the backs of pick-ups containing stuff other rummagers have purchased- where’d you guys get that stuff?!

9) Don’t block the neighbor’s drive when their 12 year old has to get to school. Unless you like being ticketed and towed.

I will be having my own rummage sale in a month or two. I promise to abide by the above “regulations”!

The prices I see above are much higher than we usually get for clothes, unless they are high end designer. Our yard sales offer all clothing for $1 – 2 per grocery bag full. The books go between 10 – 25 cents each, and the bike would probably run between $50 – $100.

You could check Craigs list for an idea of what the prices are there on the bike.

Put your bike on Craigslist for $175.

Bring your books to a used bookstore first—for store credit. Sell the rest at your rummage sale.

Thanks again, all! We sold all the shoes @$2, and ⅔ of the clothes @$1. Yahoo!

@kevbo Thanks for the update – You got good prices – What about the bike?

I did’t bother selling it. Some other time, I guess.

Congratulations on a good sale! Size 5 shoes are hard to find.

Perhaps you could sell the bike on Craigslist?