We took in over 300 bucks today at our YS...as a precaution about 2 I took extra cash inside to safe

[greenbriar]

I do that every sale just to be careful


tonights news had someone on that got their yardsale robbed today


ISN'T anything sacred???????????

[greenbriar]

1. I have been at my location 9 years and have never had any issues

didn't catch what part of town the lady who was robbed lived in

[SeattleGirl]

2. Unfotunately, in desperate times, some people turn to desperate

measures. I know there are always people around who think what's yours is theirs, but I do think that when the economy goes down, crime increases. That was good thinking on your part, to take the money inside.

[greenbriar]

3. we have always done that

just makes sense to prevent trouble


but I have never ever heard of a yardsale being robbed

[SeattleGirl]

4. I have to admit, that's a new one to me too.

[greenbriar]

5. Just had a guy tell me to watch out for a lady in a white truck

she likes to get people to go really low on prices and then she takes it to a secondhand shop she owns...sells it higher


on many things I won't care...hehe

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. She sounds ok

buy low, sell high, makes sense.

As long as she's not robbing anyone, then everyone's happy.

[old mark]

9. I used to do that all the time - it's called eBay. nt

[suninvited]

15. there are more junk dealers showing up at yard sales

than you might realize. I dont see anything wrong with it, you dont have to lower your prices any more than you want to.

[KansDem]

7. Did you sell the saxophone? (nt)

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. If that sax was sold and the proceeds were lumped in with that $300, it was

a steal!

[KansDem]

11. True, but with the economy the way it is...

Some "yard salers" can be pretty tough negotiators!

[greenbriar]

17. no, I still have it...sigh...

I want to sell it for 500 dollars so I can pay off a credit card!

[mnhtnbb]

10. I made 3 grand from a two day yard sale in 2000. When I took money

to the bank, they questioned where I got all that cash! I think they thought I was selling drugs.

We were moving and doing a serious downsizing. Sold lots of furniture, books, toys, even scraps of fabric
to quilters.

Seven years later everything we moved went up in flames when the house burned down.

Congrats on your sale!

[MajorChode]

12. You need to change banks

I deposit that much with my bank from my drug sale business and they never question it.

Just make sure it's always less than $10K. I fell for that one once and boy was it a mess.

[mnhtnbb]

14. ROFL!

:rofl:

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[KG]

16. when i was a kid, i took down a lemonade stand.

i ran with a bad crowd.

[greenbriar]

18. wow, this thread got a troll?

what a turd

[greenbriar]

19. sale over over 500 dollars but sax is still for sale

I wish it would sell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rrneck]

20. Pretty damn low.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0708091cheer1.html

JULY 8--A teenage cheerleader stole $187 from a wheelchair-bound boy who had earned the money selling t-shirts for a charity, police charge. Chelsea Steele, 17, was arrested last Friday, a few hours after she allegedly robbed Joseph Green at a Marietta, Georgia community pool house where Green was "selling t-shirts and hats...for charity," according to a criminal warrant. Steele, who attends Sprayberry High School, is listed as a member of the school's varsity cheerleading squad in a roster available for downloading from the school's web site (though it appears that her name was scrubbed elsewhere from the site following her July 3 bust). Steele, pictured below in a Cobb County Sheriff's Office mug shot, is facing a felony robbery count (she was also hit with an underage alcohol possession rap). Police are investigating whether Steele had accomplices, since she was spotted fleeing the pool house in the company of a friend, with whom she departed the area in a Ford Taurus.

[greenbriar]

21. that just sucks

I hate the world

[WinkyDink]

22. Apparently her DNA compelled the thief.

"Steele."