I used to do lots of yard sale shopping, and 3 years ago went to 3 closing daycare yard sales to get some things for my daycare. As a general rule, I find that if something is almost as good as new, 25% is a fair price to put, and you will likely get offers for less, so decide how low you're willing to go. Something that's used but still good would be more like 10%.
Starting price does affect whether or not it will sell. If someone sees something they'd pay $20 for, but the price is $60, they won't even make an offer, so you need to price items based on how important it is to get rid of them.
Been a while since I had a yard sale, but here's my general rule of percentages.
New or like new
- 40% if the money is what I want and I don't care if they sell
- 30% if I'm hoping they sell, but want to make money too
- 20% if I don't want to put it back into storage
Used but still decent condition is generally half those percentages.
If you were in my area, I'd go check out your yard sale.
