The Yardsale Blog: Archive

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AFLAC Employee Attempts to Procure WSJ-Featured...

Yardsale was exposed this morning by the WSJ for hawking duck lamps, the perfect gifts for your loved ones during the holidays. So there’s that. Oh, but it doesn’t stop there. Amy, the purveyor of said duck lamps got this message: “I’m an AFLAC guy so I will take both your lamps.” And it was actually someone who works for AFLAC. “You can’t make this...

Dec 11th

John's Mission Treasure Trove

Every now and again a seller joins Yardsale and reminds us how important great photos are for a listing. Having pretty amazing stuff doesn’t hurt, either. Our neighbor John is in the Mission District of San Francisco and has one heck of a collection up for sale right now. You can impress your friends while pouring them an unidentifiable drink (“I’ll have a clear one, on the...

Dec 1st

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This Weekend, Embrace Your B-Side

One More Time by Daft Punk on Grooveshark “It was all a dream / I used to read Word Up magazine / Salt’n’Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine.” - Paul McCartney & Wings Wait, that’s not right, is it? Sorry. We’ve been looking through Nadine’s eclectic vinyl collection on Yardsale and, well, we got our tracks mixed up. You really can’t blame us...

Sep 22nd

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Chicken & Waffles, Indian Summers and Vespas

San Francisco Knights by People Under the Stairs on Grooveshark We love hearing the stories behind the stuff folks are selling on Yardsale. We caught up with Deny, who’s selling this beautiful Vespa, and got its backstory: “I got the Vespa a year ago…On one of those amazingly warm Indian summer nights, we cruised along the Embarcadero. We took in the sights: AT&T Park, the...

Sep 13th

The Yardsale Pickers

We’re pretty musical around here. Ryan is teaching himself to play a guitar he got on Yardsale. When Jon isn’t learning the Sumerian language he likes to break it down with some jazz piano. Daniel is learning guitar one chord a week, but is currently stuck playing C Minor over and over (didn’t that make Schumann go crazy?). Heck, we spend our evenings listening to our...

Sep 10th

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In Pursuit of Happiness

Hey there, Yardsailors! I’m Daniel, your new Community Happiness Manager. I’ve joined the Yardsale team to help you (yes, you! And you!) get the most magical experience possible with Yardsale. And that’s what it’s all about, right? My job is to make sure your experience with Yardsale is something special at every step of the way, from the moment you open the app to when you go pick up that rad...

Aug 9th

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Now Scaling... Happiness

Look, news! We’ve hired a Community Happiness Manager. We can’t describe how much we appreciate all interest, kind words of support, love notes, videos, follow ups, Spaceballs references, and tweets we received from all of you. Can’t wait for you to meet the newest addition to the team. More to come soon! — TL;DR… We’re hiring! Who do you know who is hard...

Jul 9th

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Yardsale, now serving America

Now available across America From the Mission, to San Francisco, to the Bay Area… to America. Until now, we’ve been quietly focused on building Yardsale for our neighbors here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Thanks to you, Yardsale has become one of the Bay Area’s best kept secrets, spread entirely by word of mouth. The most common complaint we hear is that we’re not...

Jun 21st

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So, what's selling on Yardsale

We’ve been getting asked a lot lately about what sells on Yardsale. We’ve actually been pretty surprised, since we first started, by what trades hands. There’s the usual stuff, stuff we all need, like plasma tvs, furniture, microwaves, blenders, laptops and gadgets, iPhones (because you have an extra one lying around or just dropped one in the toilet, we’ve all done it) and...

Jun 19th

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