Hello everyone!
I went to the R.E.I. garage sale in Jacksonville, FL. yesterday. It was my first one. I highly recommend going to one in your area. Here's the deal's I got. Black diamond spot headlamp $39.95, I got for $11.83 with batteries!!! The tag with yellow dot read "could not open, broke it in process of trying to open it-needed instruction" I opened the battery compartment and it looked like brand new batteries! It was a brand new headlamp. I almost thought REI was playing a joke on us. The second item was an Exped Synmat 7 M, $129.00, I got for $38.83. The tag read "one baffle larger that other". When I got it home I pumped it up using its own air pump and saw that the last baffle/air chamber came apart. Going to see if Exped can fix it.
It started at 9am. I got there at 8:15am and the line was wrapped around the building (approx. 50 yds of people)! I decided to wait in my truck. At 9am the line started moving. I headed towards the door when an REI employee asked if I was there for the garage sale. I said yes and he asked me to reach in a bag and grab a piece of colored paper. Wish I would have grabbed pink! Got grey and had to wait til 11:30am Each color had 30 minutes in the back where they had all the garage sale stuff.
I think you have to know exactly what you are looking for, for this to work and look everywhere. Stuff gets picked up let's say at the table with all the tents and is put down in a random spot. Also I picked up a neoair for $80.83, felt like I was being stalked! I put it down and some lady grabbed it!
Anyway, hope this helps any 1st timers.