Listing your upcoming yard sale on Yardsale Treasures is a no brainer. Thrifty shoppers come here to find sales in their area. If they’re looking for a pitching machine and baseball gear, or Star Wars Lego building sets, or books, or sheet music, or a video game console and TV to leave at grandma’s house, they know this is the place to come. But, for those who don’t normally shop yard sales, social media might be the way to connect them to the things you’re selling.
Your Social Network Wants Your Old Stuff!
We’ve made it easy to share your yard sale on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It’s very likely that a large number of people see your posts on social media. Some of your contacts are bound to be local.
You may not have considered your Facebook friends as potential shoppers. You don’t even know if they’re even yard sale enthusiasts. But, consider this scenario. A peddler, or yard sale host, had a premature baby a year or better ago. Since then, the baby is healthy and growing like a weed, but they still have a closet full of preemie sized clothes that they need to get rid of. They share their yard sale on Facebook. When they listed with Yardsale Treasures, they uploaded photos, so their friends and contacts can see them as well.
One of their Facebook friends happens to have a neighbor, who’s daughter recently had a baby, several weeks early. No one has had time to buy clothes for the baby. It’s sooner than they’d expected and much tinier. It’ll be months before it grows into the clothes they got at their showers. Being the good neighbor that they are, they share the yard sale post to their neighbor’s timeline. The neighbor is thrilled! She decides to get up early Saturday morning and buy all of these adorable, tiny outfits for her new granddaughter. She doesn’t normally think about visiting yard sales, but because of this Facebook share, she’s scored a great deal.
Here’s another example of social media to the rescue. Maybe you thought that you’d always be a potter. You purchased a wheel, and clay and all sorts of sculpting tools. You made lovely bowls and vases for a time. But, then, life got in the way and you never have time to make pottery anymore. Your wheel, kiln, glazes and expensive equipment are just taking up space in the garage. Maybe these aren’t purchases that every yard sale shopper is even considering. The chances of randomly having someone drop by and take these off of your hands could be slim. But, maybe you could share it on Twitter. A follower of yours may know an art teacher who might love all of these tools. So, he retweets for you. And boom, your pottery supplies find a good home. The art teacher normally sleeps in on Saturdays, but because she saw the retweet, she’s found out about your sale and has scored some great items for her art school.
The moral of the story is, Yardsale Treasures will help connect yard sale fans with your sale, and by sharing your listing on social media, you might connect the items you’re selling, with a buyer who is specifically in the market for them.
When listing your yard sale, consider which items would benefit most from photos and social media sharing! With a little planning and a very small amount of effort, you could be driving buyers who aren’t regular yard sale shoppers to your sale.