I had a yard sale on Friday on Saturday. I had a great turnout on Friday but not so much yesterday because it was dreary out and started raining at 11:50 which made us close up early. I'll do it again next weekend since there was no traffic coming through here on Saturday really at all. Now I've have a yard sale before and knew that there would be people who will ask me to take less on things but one Indian lady takes the prize for best try ever. We have a TV for sale that is only 2 years old and we were selling it with a VCR together for $100 (this was our tv from our living room until last year when we got the 50" flat plasma). Josh said he sold his for $150 so we figured we'd have no problem selling it. So anyway, this Indian lady saw the price and said "$100 for the TV?" I said "Yes." She then said "Fifteen" and it sounded like she was saying fifteen but it made no sense in conjuction with the fact that the TV is $100. So after a few rounds of us repeating back the word fifteen to her a few times like she was saying some foreign word to me Richard finally got it and said "Do you mean will I sell the TV to you for $15?" and she shook her head yes. Richard answered with a funny look on his face and a big ol' "NO!". She left and we laughed with a lady who happened to be here for all of it and she was trying to help us decipher her turns out to be not so foreign language. That lady bought a few things and said "Don't worry, I'll pay full price". I've never heard of anyone trying to get an $85 discount. I wasn't having a clearance sale, geesh! Another guy came up and wanted to trade sealing our driveway for the foosball table. I said NO but I'll trade you $30 (the price it's marked) for it. One lady came up and mentioned that she babysits and was buying some video games, so always thinking on my toes, I mentioned she should buy the foosball table for the kids she babysits. Hey, doesn't hurt to try! All in all we had a good sale. Still have a lot to sell so I'll be out there on Friday and Saturday of this coming weekend too. And hey, if anyone needs a foosball table let me know!
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Ya, the $15 negotiation was really my favorite part of the day. Looking back, I should have had some fun with that lady and said something like "yes, I'll take $115 for the t.v." and picked up the t.v. to follow her to her car. Live and learn. This weekednds sale should be interesting. I hope to see her again:).
Love you Julie,
Richard
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