Garage sale flyer

Most of them do not. Consumer guarantees cover sales by a business, and the ACCC is explicit that most of them do not apply to one off sales between two people where the seller is not running a business, which is exactly what a garage sale is. Three survive, and all three are about ownership rather than condition: clear title to the goods, undisturbed possession, and no hidden debts or charges over them. That is why the list flyer prints those three as a promise and never promises that a kettle works. A buyer who plugs the kettle in on the driveway has done the only inspection they are going to get.

There is no fixed number. The test business.gov.au sets out looks at whether you intend to make a profit or genuinely believe you will, whether you repeat similar activities, whether the size and scale match the way that trade normally operates, and whether the thing is run in a business like way with records, a business name or an ABN. Clearing a shed once a year is a hobby. Buying stock at auction, reselling it every second weekend and keeping books is a business, and then the income is declared to the ATO and the full set of consumer guarantees applies to what is sold. Six neighbours emptying their own houses on one Saturday sit a long way from that line.

Check it before it goes on the table. The ACCC advice on second hand goods is to check whether a product has been recalled or banned or fails a mandatory standard, and it singles out nursery products and child car seats as items worth having inspected by an independent expert before they change hands. Businesses have to comply with mandatory safety standards even when the goods are used. A private seller who has not checked is handing a stranger a problem for twenty dollars, so the cot at number 9 is the item on this street that deserves a recall search, not the record crates.

Both, in a line each, because they are the two arguments that happen on the footpath. These flyers say cash is easiest, that four of the six driveways take a bank transfer and none take cards, and that nothing is held without payment. A private seller has no obligation to keep an item for someone who has gone home for a trailer, and printing that is kinder than saying it at the table. The other line worth printing is what happens at the end. A one o’clock finish and a charity bin on Bridge Street tell a buyer that the last hour is the cheap one, which is what fills a driveway at noon.