Cool Online Booklet to Promote Your Yard Sale

I just found about a cool new tool to promote your yard sale online...it lets you create a simple booklet that lets people "flip through" the pages of your yard sale.

It's free to try, and also to use with 20MB content...more content and other features cost between $10 and $100 per year.

It's called simple booklet, and it's at:

http://www.simplebooklet.com 

Here's how Scott from simplebooklet describes it:

"We've built a tool which I think helps people who are doing yard sales to promote themselves in the digital age"  http://www.simplebooklet.com 

"A garage seller can create a digital flyer for free containing samples of some of the stuff they want to sell. It's all drag, drop, and format easy, no coding required.  Then, they can promote their yard sale through a rich html email, on their favorite social network, and even embed it in their own blog or website. We do all the hosting as well so they can even just pass on a short URL to anyone they want.

"Here's an example of a garage sale flyer.  http://midd.me/3nff  Hope you like it and find its worth passing onto your readers."

 "Thanks, Scott"

Thanks, Scott! Hope to try it out myself. Give it a whirl and let me know how you like it if you get a chance.

Of Flowbees, $2600 Perfume Bottles, and Other Great Things to Sell on eBay: A Collectibles Blog

One of my Yard Salers newsletter readers, Amy, has a great new blog where she posts about cool under-the-radar things to sell on eBay: http://stores.ebay.com/Collectibilities. Among the things she mentions are Flowbees (funky old haircutting devices), American Girl dolls, and vintage perfume bottles.

Her eBay Store is called Collectibilities.

Amy was also the winner of one of my "Flips" contests, where her vintage perfume bottle, picked up for $2, went for a whopping $2651 on eBay!

 

You can read more about that and other flips from the contest here:

http://www.yardsalers.net/backissues/issue1-69sept9-10.asp 

Or buy the compendium of flips at:

http://bigbucksflips.com/

Alcoholic and AA Books Can Reap Big Bucks

If you're selling books on amazon.com and eBay, keep your eye out for those AA and other books geared toward alcoholics and families of alcoholics.

I recently listed an Al-Anon book (for families of alcoholics) and it sold on amazon the next day:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Paths-Recovery-Al-Anons-Traditions-Concepts/dp/0910034311/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1286838006&sr=8-3

Of course, the best known alcoholic-related book is the AA "big book," the AA Bible. A first edition recently sold on eBay for $255, but more recent editions sell for decent money too.

Here's a second edition that sold for $38.85. 

 

You can find this book everywhere: thrift stores, yard sales, charity shops, estate sales. 

It's little wonder these books sell so well when alcoholism touches so many of our lives. I would bet everyone in the US knows at least one person in their extended family who is an alcoholic.

So keep your eye out for these books wherever you go. They're usually an easy turnaround.

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Interested in other books that sell for big bucks? Download my ebook, Over 500 Books that Sell for $50-$5000 on eBay: http://www.yardsalers.net/500Books.asp

New Prize Announced for Next Yard Salers Flips Contest: Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies

New Prize Announced for Next Yard Salers Flips Contest: Starting an iPhone
Application Business For Dummies:

Enter the next Yard Salers Flips Contest and you could win a free
copy of this book by my friend Joel Elad, and co-authors Aaron Nicholson and
Damien Stolarz.

To enter the contest, simply email me at juliawilk@aol.com the story of something you
"flipped" on eBay, amazon, or another site -- meaning you
bought it at a low price and sold it at a considerably higher
price.