If you have ever held your own garage sale -- which I'm sure you have at some point in your life -- you have probably seen the people who don't immediately get out of their car but instead slow down or even stop in the street and peer out the window out your items. Sometimes they will get out and sometimes they will keep driving.
While frustrating to sellers, this is probably the garage saler's most important technique. When I first started garage saling in high school, my friends and I got out at every sale. I guess we assumed (hoped?) that sellers had more items than could be seen from the street.
It took us a depressing amount of time to realize our hopes were, quite frankly, stupid. After several years of getting out of the car for just about every sale we realized we were wasting our time. The Drive By lets you screen your sales, allowing you to save time to go to more, better sales. In a typical day we drive by twenty to forty percent of sales without stopping. Seeing how we stop at scores of sales every day, the time saved by not having to park, get out of the car, and walk to and from the sale amounts to quite a bit.
My next post is a continuation of this topic; I'll be offering some tips regarding how to know when a drive by is necessary.
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