Today was a selling day. Oh my goodness! Today I woke up, hubby got up and we got dressed, hit McD's for yogurt parfaits and coke, then onward to drop me off at Pat's for the estate sale. Hubby took my on a tour of the signs and all 19 that he put up. 3 of the signs had come off or were pulled off the posts so he picked them up and will put them back up in the morning, after he drops me back off again.
When I got to Pat's at 830, there were already people there, browsing. I hurried up and got the money and recounted it. Pat had taken money since she got there so I had to count the money, figure out how much she had done, minus what I had taken in the night before and then enter that into the cash register. I hope I did it right.
So all day we had lots of people coming in and buying things. We had a few people who switched tags and tried to get things for really cheap but since I had priced the items, I caught them and told them I wouldn't sell things at that price and put the correct tags back on the items. I was totally ticked off and wanted to kick them out and not sell them anything.
We have a woman, a friend of Pat's, that started telling people they could have discounts on things and she had no authority to do it. I had to tell the people she had no authority to mark down prices and I couldn't honor those prices. They put the things back. I did talk to her and tell her we wouldn't discount things at this time of the sale. She left shortly after that. We may have lost some stuff to theft, like these little glass salt and pepper shakers. Pat counted them and was missing two of them and none of us remember selling them. Oh well, these things happen.
We added up the sales and we sold over $700 in cash and credit cards today only! Between the signs and the ad on craigslist, we have sold over $1000 these past two days. Credit cards are a small percentage of it but it is nice they have an option. It worked out well setting it up on my phone. I have been in charge of handling all the money and it is a huge responsibility. Pat's daughter, Marie, prints out the reports and she and Pat can got through and see if the money comes out right.
We have two more days. Sunday I won't get there until about 130pm but we are only open from 1 to 5pm but I expect it will be slow. Sundays aren't that great days for garage sales so am not sure how they will go for the estate sale. We will see. Pat wants to have the sale next week again, Thursday, Friday aand Saturday. Then that's it for me. She can pack up the rest of the stuff and let her daughter take it all to the flea market. I'm outa there!
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