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Are you looking for a new and exciting way to raise funds? If you are, here's one way. Why not have an online yard sale right here on our website!

Even though we're partial to fundraisers for children, all fundraising organizations are welcome, as long as they're for a good cause.

There are a lot of people out there who have items at home that are gathering dust because they are no longer useful to them or anyone else in their household. They don’t throw these items out though, because they know they have value and would be useful to other people. Every household has this problem. Which is why we’re beginning to see an increasing number of yard sales each year. People realize that it’s a great way to generate some extra cash and get rid of personal items that are of no use to them anymore. 

 With the advent of the internet and it’s ever increasing usage, we figure what better way to bring people together to sell off their new or used merchandise than the internet. Yes, we know this idea has already been exploited on a grand scale by Ebay, but that is a worldwide concept. Our concept is completely local, and we don’t assist in any of the selling. All we do is put the buyer in touch with the seller. This way, the buyer doesn’t have to worry about buying something that he or she hasn’t seen in person, which is the case with Ebay.

  We like to think of our company as the hub or center of a bicycle wheel. The spokes of the wheel that feed into the hub are fundraising organizations like yours. Your organization and others would feed into the hub by seeking out potential customers with items to sell and collecting all of the listing fees. Then you would promote the upcoming online yard sale on our website thru the use of flyers. As I stated earlier, finding people with excess merchandise is not that difficult, and the fact that you would be promoting this sale as a fundraiser for a good cause makes it an even easier sell.

  A typical fee for a 30 day listing of an item or items on our website would be $5.00. Of that $5.00, $1.00  would go to us and the remaining $4.00 would go to the fundraising organization. This is a win-win situation for every one involved. We make money, and your organization makes money. The seller gets to advertise his merchandise at a low listing fee, and the buyer gets the chance to purchase merchandise that is of use to him/her at a reduced price.

If you think your organization might be interested in participating in our online yard sale, please give us a call at 708-359-7749. The more organizations we get to participate the more successful it will be.