Explorer's Guide to Garage Sales

Anything that you want, you will eventually find as a garage sale explorer. Buyers look for treasures at bargain prices, while sellers want to make money selling unwanted items. If you are a seller, Explorer's Guide to Garage Sales discusses advertising, planning a sale, setting up, pricing, and negotiating. If you are a buyer, the book focuses on your experience, from where to park, how to check out whether a sale is worth stopping for, finding an address, what to look for an ad, what to say when bargaining, figuring out who the money person is, and when to walk away. The authors describe typical and unusual items found at garage sales and offer suggestions to buyers and sellers on how to handle them. Throughout the book, the authors share humorous stories from decades of exploration for garage sale treasurers.

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Since retiring from university teaching, Marsha Ann Matson has avidly pursued her favorite hobby, going to garage sales every weekend, rain or shine. She has been an explorer on the garage sale trail for 17 years, coinciding with meeting Dennis Ross. Together, they have had many practical, humorous, and unusual adventures, which they share in this book. Along the way, they have become experts at living well on little money, in part because of garage sales. Marsha lives in Miami, Florida, where the warm weather permits year-round exploration. Dennis M. Ross has explored half the world as a tourist and member of the U.S. Armed Forces. In every country he has visited, he sought and found flea markets, bazaars, and casbahs. He now imparts to the reader 30 years of experience, so that buyers and sellers can take advantage of his knowledge to acquire treasures and to make money. Dennis is retired from the military and as a university English professor. He lives in Southeast Florida.