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Yard Sales and the Events/Classfieds Policy Changes
Carl Metropolitan
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11-30-2005 09:57
Do the changes in the events and classifieds policy announced today affect yard sales? If they do, they will likely seriously impact most real yard sales.

A yard sale operating as a business (a "perpetual yard sale";) will not have a problem coming up with 75L to 125L every week; however a yard sale running for a few days or a weekend only might not find a classifieds ad economically viable--especially since next to no one reads the darn things.
Carl Metropolitan
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11-30-2005 09:59
From: Carl Metropolitan
Do the changes in the events and classifieds policy announced today affect yard sales? If they do, they will likely seriously impact most real yard sales.


To clarify, I'm talking about the changes proposed to the in-world classfieds, not the forum classifieds.
Jamie Bergman
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11-30-2005 12:37
Gotcha.
Cubey Terra
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11-30-2005 12:38
Thank you for this and the dozen other pointless replies, Jamie. ;)
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11-30-2005 12:56
From: Carl Metropolitan
Do the changes in the events and classifieds policy announced today affect yard sales? If they do, they will likely seriously impact most real yard sales.



Just my two cents:

In my town, you have to get a permit from the Township to hold a Garage Sale. These permits cost $35.

This encourages folks to get together and hold 'community' garage sales instead of individual ones - unless you plan to make a significant amount off your individual sale.

Additionally,

The RL community garage sales I see around me typically have a start & end time - like "Saturday 9am-3pm". In reading Jesse's post, it seems that as long as a yard sale has a definitive start & end time, and has a host/leader to it - it is indeed acceptable to place on the events calendar. (Although I could be wrong on this).

Either way, I think instead of this policy change supressing all yard sales, it will instead force folks to get more creative. :)
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