I like having the painting display thingy. My Sim saves all his masterpieces and sells them at 300% mark up. So much easier than opening a retail lot. I use the table mostly to sell frogs and woodworking items.I can't figure out for the life of me how to use the tarp. I bought all the timgs at the Flea Market and was going to try to sell them at a huge profit. It doesn't seem like the sales amounts count toward money earned by the individual Sim in the Wealth aspiration. It does count toward the money in reserve.Is anyone else using the Yard Sale items? How is it working for you?

"ModerateOsprey;15543525" wrote:I didn't know you could do this? Did this come with City Living? I just need a table and some stuff to sell?Yes. I hadn't gotten around to trying these things until recently. But I have a Sim who should make her living from yard sales since it fits her character (poor has to earn everything the hard way, lol) I made her sell flowers the other day at the flea market. She made about $58 so it was alright, since she didn't have time to collect any crystals or frogs etc. I want her to move up to ratty furniture. lol

Got it...Come and Get it Street Store ... very intuitive ;)

"ModerateOsprey;15543575" wrote:"Cinebar;15543563" wrote:Great! come back and tell me how to do this, whenever I go to Carl's site, those ads slow down my pc and my antivirus usually tells me I need to get off there. Grrr.... what's the yard sale table called in build/buy? Can't find the plum thing. You'd think a search on yard sale would find it, wouldn't you? :frowning: I'll keep hunting....Only way I could find it was to look under Activities/Misc. ETA: I never memorize object names.

OK...Come and Get it Street Store and any outdoor chair can go into your inventory. Not the tarp, sadly :(You can stock the table with anything that will go into a sim's inventory. I just grabbed all the books off a bookshelf and dragged them into my sim's inventory for my test.To setup, drag the table out of the inventory and then you need to stock the table. To do this, open the sims inventory and drag your stuff to the table.Next, select the table and select stock table, then tend table, then start sale.

I would love it if the flea market sold more than lamps and chairs for furniture, my sim is trying to furnish their apartment with second hand items only. Also I have been playing a challenge where my sim can only make money selling things she finds with the market table and found out that you can start a yard sale anywhere, including inside public buildings. The tarp doesn't work at all for selling and you can't sell posters on the art wall or table.

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PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
Back when one of my Sims needed to do mischevious interactions for his job, I used the retail lot to bring in loads of Sims for him to prank.
notetoself00x
8 years ago
I got my sim's gourmet cooking skill up to 10 and I make Baked Alaska (serving of 8) for $100 and sell at a 50% markup and they sell for $1,053 each. I didnt even try it at a higher markup! But selling food can be extremely profitable especially with the "homey" and "chef's kitchen" lot traits.
TheBristolSimme
8 years ago
"Inna Minnit;15543729" wrote:
"TheBristolSimmer;15543710" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;15543706" wrote:
"Inna Minnit;15543696" wrote:
The problem with the retail lots is it just takes all Sim day to sell anything. $3000 painting or $25 lamp. You had to harangue your customers all day long. My self employed Sims made less on retail lots. I do still like them and use them, but they are just second homes for my Sims. I seldom use them for selling anything.

Another thing they (retail lots) are good for is keeping a pot of money for when you move sims out

It's a great savings account :)

Is it really, though? Furniture and appliances go down in value. Back before they "fixed" the produce, I would store harvests in the chest and ise that to gift my kids when they moved out. When they "fixed" them so they wouldn't continue to increase in value while being stored, it broke harvstables so they have no value when transferred between lots. And the great level plants you find at the festivals are only normal when you sell them or plant them. If you can plant them at all.

I meant just having a retail lot with nothing on it and name it "Savings account" and put money in it... :)
PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
Guess who I saw having a yard sale at the Flea Market?
Cinebar
8 years ago
Can we use the table on a home lot like we do at the flea market? I tried that but there wasn't an option on the table to 'start sale'. So, she just stood out there tending table and no one ever coming onto the property. I thought I saw someone here when game was released, have a home yard sale.
PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
Yes you can. After you pick tend table, then you should be able to click the table again and set prices. Click again and start yard sale.
Cinebar
8 years ago
"Inna Minnit;15543487" wrote:
Yes you can. After you pick tend table, then you should be able to click the table again and set prices. Click again and start yard sale.

Thank you, I will go back and see why there wasn't those options on table just tend table. ETA: I would also like to know how to use the tarp in public and on home lots. I can't figure then out, either. lol
moderateosprey
New Spectator
8 years ago
I didn't know you could do this? Did this come with City Living? I just need a table and some stuff to sell?
PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
I think the items are not super expensive, so your poor Sims can save up for them pretty easily.
moderateosprey
New Spectator
8 years ago
"Cinebar;15543529" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;15543525" wrote:
I didn't know you could do this? Did this come with City Living? I just need a table and some stuff to sell?

Yes. I hadn't gotten around to trying these things until recently. But I have a Sim who should make her living from yard sales since it fits her character (poor has to earn everything the hard way, lol) I made her sell flowers the other day at the flea market. She made about $58 so it was alright, since she didn't have time to collect any crystals or frogs etc. I want her to move up to ratty furniture. lol

Yes, I caught up with packs a couple of weeks ago and am still finding stuff, but this sounds just what I was looking for.. I tried to do something similar with a retail lot when GTW came out, but the word tedious doesn't cover what I had to go through...and, yeah, I like to make 'em work for it as well :grin:

What bits do I need? Just a table and tarp? I assume I can carry in inventory and setup wherever?