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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jentasticsims
Rising Novice
8 years ago

I've been lucky I guess some sell the snow globes so it just depends. I had to share a table with someone else and figured my Sim wouldn't make any money he ran to the table and placed his frogs there taking up the whole table but she was able to put her flowers on there, too. lol It was up to my Sim when to end the sale. And I could mark up the items (this was at the game's festival flea market) but didn't get any money when he sold his frogs so I guess that is o.k.

Yes you can buy those but I would like to see dining room furniture, stoves, fridges, art and other things like that
jentasticsims
Rising Novice
8 years ago
I guess you can buy art but I would like everything you can buy for furnishings at the flea market
stockingfeet
8 years ago
Put the table and the art board on your property, click and choose put in inventory. go to where you want to sell your stuff. open inventory and choose, place in world. once placed click on it and choose stock from inventory, like the fridge another pop up screen appears. drag what you want to sell to the pop up. then click table and select stock, tend table, start street sale and mark up prices in that order.
be careful though because sometimes another sim will come along and take over your table or art stand. but you should still get the money. and remember to put your stuff back in your inventory before the flea market finishes.
TheBristolSimme
8 years ago
I played around with the yard sale stuff not long ago to. So much easier than having your own retail shop. In fact I don't see much point in the retail shops, as it doesn't come up as your job as a retail owner, no aspiration for it either. Not so well thought out feature. But anyway back to the yard sale - I to was under the impression that the tarp would be useable for us to have yard sales to sell chairs, sofas etc etc. Would actually been a great story telling feature. Your sims earning enough money to sell their old and buy new. Shame about the tarps. :)
moderateosprey
New Spectator
8 years ago
"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
TheBristolSimme
8 years ago
"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 :)
TheBristolSimme
8 years ago
Now that's a great idea.
PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
"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.
PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
Oh. Yes, I do that too. I forgot about that.
moderateosprey
New Spectator
8 years ago
"notetoself00x;15543720" wrote:
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.

I am so going to do this