ONLINE: Your items are available for purchase for an unlimited time, until they sell. AT HOME: Your items are available until you call it quits for night.

ONLINE: Rain, sleet, or snow, your sales aren’t affected in least. AT HOME: Better have a rain date or a very big umbrella.

ONLINE: No need to constantly watch over your goods or interact with uninterested customers. Just wait until a customer contacts you by e-mail when they are ready to purchase. AT HOME: Be prepared for countless hours of staring down street for customers to appear. When they do arrive, be prepared for too many questions but too few purchases.

ONLINE: Advertise for free to your friends and neighbors over e-mail. AT HOME: Shell out money for flyers, after which you can get to know all of telephone poles in your neighborhood.

ONLINE: Spend your weekends way they were meant to be: relaxing and enjoying your time with friends and family. AT HOME: Spend your weekend waking up early, buying and distributing flyers, lugging boxes, and waiting for customers.

As you can see, it’s not an even match. An online garage sale wins hands down.

Now that you’re actually excited to get started with your garage sale, you should know that there is one caveat. As easy as it may seem, your online garage sale will be even easier if you choose right classified site.

Your best bet is to do your research and find classified sites with most features and benefits, such as (1) No sign-up, registration, or transaction fees. (2) Free ad listing with text description and pictures. (3) Long-term ad posting and free renewals. (4) Easy, accurate, electronic, and automatic record keeping.

The best classified sites have these incredible features and then some. Not only will you be able to clean out your home’s clutter with help of these classified sites. Your garage sale will also park a profit in your pocket.

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