If you are looking for a new home for your old gear, you want to post garage sale on Facebook. This works on both PC and mobile phones as you only need a Facebook account. By creating an event, a post, or using the Facebook Marketplace, you can advertise a garage sale. Follow this guide to post garage sale on Facebook:
How to Post Garage Sale on Facebook
Below are the steps to post garage sale on Facebook:
1. Advertise on the Facebook Marketplace
- Visit https://www.facebook.com/ to log in to your account. You can even open multiple Facebook accounts with your same mobile number for garage sales.
- On the left side of your news feed page, you will see “Marketplace”—click it.
- On the left side of the page, click Sell Something to list your items.
- Click Category to let people know the type of sale you are having.
- Write a brief description of the items you will be selling and highlight the bargains under the What are you Selling? section.
- When people filter by price, your garage sale will come up first when you set it to zero. If you write the total price, it would be misleading as you are not listing all the items for sale. You will attract more people and give buyers a chance to bargain when you leave it open.
- To help people locate your garage sales, you can add pictures of the most desirable items you have for sale and the location itself.
- Click Next to post. Your garage sale will now be advertised on Facebook Marketplace.
Another option to post garage sale on Facebook is to first select the private marketplace groups you are in and share your garage sale before clicking Post.
Use the address bar at the top of your news feed page to search and join private marketplace groups.
2. Advertise via Events
- Create a Facebook account via https://www.facebook.com/ or login into your existing account.
- From your news feed page, Click on Events—it should be located on the left side of your screen.
- Choose the public event option by clicking Create Event. A new window will pop. Your event will not be advertised if it isn’t made public.
- Complete the details for your garage sales. The event schedule along with the location and some listed pictures can be added.
- Publish your event by clicking Create Event. Your event won’t be posted yet but it will be saved on your events page.
- You can now advertise it by clicking Share. You may publish it as a post or share the event with your friends via messenger.
- Click Promote Event if you want to pay for traditional advertising. This allows for the visibility of your garage sale to be promoted across Facebook as you have paid for the time.
3. Advertising with status updates
- Visit https://www.facebook.com/ to create an account or log in to your existing Facebook account.
- Click What’s on your Mind? on the top of the page and create a post
- Add details about your garage sale by clicking the ••• icon. Add pictures of the items, location, and time.
- Share your garage sale on your status by clicking Post. You can promote your sale by tagging friends.
4. Employ other techniques
You can advertise your garage in various other ways, including traditional signage, newspaper classifieds, and web advertising.
You could even advertise the sale using other options like:
- Yard sale flyers
- Craigslist ads
- Twitter photos and hashtags
You can advertise your yard sales on yard-sale-specific websites such as YardSales.net and Gsalr.com. Other options include:
- Yardsalesearch.com
- Garagesalehunter.com
- Yardsaletreasuremap.com
- Garagesalefinder.com
- Garagesalesource.com
These alternatives also allow you to post item photos, and specify the categories of items you want to sell. Posting on other social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, or Snapchat, should be considered an option.
Meanwhile, you should be careful to know whether a potential Facebook Marketplace buyer is legit or not.
5. Promote your item
A week or two leading up to the sale is the time to do most of your promotional work, but advertise your garage sale at least a month in advance.
You don’t want people to forget about your sale so you give them sufficient notice and at the same time advance notice of the sale.
Before the day of your sale, ensure a high level of preparation, so that in the end, you have more money stuffed in your pocket.
Above are the steps to post garage sale on Facebook. Just make sure that the items you list for sale are in great condition to make quicker sales.
