Best Yard Sale Online Advertising Sites
I chose these as the top ones because they’re:
- Free. (You do have to register first — for each site. I simply used an old “junk email address” that I don’t care about, then picked a garagesale related username and password, and used them just for this one occasion.)
- Quick and simple. (I posted my yard sale online in less at 5 minutes at each site.)
- A good way to increase your reach and get the attention of shoppers from beyond your immediate neighborhood.
- Enhancing your garagesale withthings that you alone cannot easily provide to the public — like routes & maps to your location, search tools, photos, etc.
- The top ways that shoppersfindyard sales to visit. (Yard salers can search by date, type of items, photos, location, and more.)
- Editable after you’ve posted the details of your garagesale. (Think of something else you’re going to sell? You can edit your ad and tweak it as often as you’d like.)
Now ontomy top picks, in order…
#1 – Craigslist
Craiglist is, by far, the most popular way that people find out about yard sales online. So you definitely want your garagesale to be listed there! Here’s how to post your yard sale on Craigslist, step-by-step.
BONUS A: GarageSalesTracker.com automatically shows what you’ve posted on Craigslist (as long as you posted it under Garage & Moving Sales).
BONUS B:TheGarage Sales Everywhere app automatically shows what you’ve posted on Craigslist as well (as long as you’ve posted it under Garage & Moving Sales).
#2 – Gsalr.com
This is one of the best and most popular ways to find and map garage salesthat you’d like to visit. So you definitely want to be listed here.You can also post up to 50 photos for free with your online ad. For the record, I didn’t post any photos for my garagesale. I meant to post a picture of all the lawn & garden equipment we were selling (because there was a lot of it, and they’rerather unique larger items), but I just never got around to it. I’m sure photos might help your yard sale online ad a little bit (they surely couldn’t hurt), but I don’t know that photos matter that much to the success of your sale.
TIP: If you’re going to post photos, I would encourage you to post individual photos of your biggest/best items, rather than posting pictures of “stuff on tables” that will be for sale. People care more about the details of your individual items than about all the “junk” you’ve got on crowded tables.
#3 – YardSales.net
It’s nice to have your yard sale listed here because this site specializes in preparing unique driving routes for yard salers — making it easy for them to bounce from one garagesale to the next one.
#4 – Yard Sale Search
This is a basic garagesale search tool that everyone uses before heading out for a day of yardsaling. It shows your potential buyers all the most common things like aneighborhood map view and a listing of items that you’ve got for sale.
#5 – Garage Sale Finder
I can’t imagine how many yard sale shoppers actually use this feature, but this site offers the unique ability to download garagesales into your own personal GPS device, such as Garmin, Magellan, or TomTom.
#6 – GarageSales.com
This site showed the fewest results for garagesales in my area, so I know it’s the least popular of all the sites listed here. But since it was quick and easy to post my own yard sale there, I figured it couldn’t hurt to have my sale listed on one more site.
Again, I posted my yard sale in all 6 of these locations. My garagesale was, indeed, successful!
