It’s on the seller’s side that it’s a little different: you deposit your clothes, old guitar, comics and other steam cookers in consignment for sale by renting your location (around 40 euros / month) and a commission on each sale donated to the organizing company (30-35%).
A real plus compared to classic garage sales, whether you want to sell or do good business
You can benefit from a real sales service over the medium term if you want to rent a stand and make a little money on a regular basis. And for the buyers it is a permanent possibility to make good deals.
In Bressuire in the Deux-Sèvres two friends (Anne and Stéphanie) have just opened their 485 m2 premises and it is already a success, Anne confided to me. The sellers who occupy a space at “Troc en stock” are mainly retirees and young adults. The former are motivated by not wanting to throw things away, the latter by financial gain. As for buyers, there are many retirees during the week, while families are very present on weekends.
Good deals at permanent garage sales
At least as much as in a garage sale classic, or on the right corner for the digital version!
HAS Barter in stock right now you will find:
– An old two-seater school desk at 40 euros
– A bicycle for a 4-year-old child at 20 euros
– Old geography maps at 30 euros
After all, nothing is set in stone, there are product arrivals almost every day.
Where can you find these garage sales?
There are networks like “Au vide-grenier” which has about forty structures in France, or “ Occaz store » and its garage sales in Haute-Garonne (Albi, Saint-Alban…). The best thing is to find out with a little research online or at your tourist office or town hall. By looking I could see that there are still quite a few: in Sables d’Olonne, Besançon, Nîmes, Albertville or even in Saintes.
Right in the virtue of what is called the circular economy…
Yes, and beyond the financial savings, we also save the precious resources needed to manufacture each object, we also avoid a carbon footprint sometimes very heavy with products that travel tens of thousands of kilometers before arriving on a store shelf!
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