

Each person is allowed 5 items.įifteen minutes before the garage sale officially starts they announce the color wave times and post them by the front door. Each color wave is made up of 100 people and you get 20 minutes in the garage sale room. It also means that you can draw an orange ticket, and your wife might draw a blue ticket–so you may have to go in at separate waves, unless you find some nice person to trade tickets with you (I saw this happen a couple times). Because it’s luck-of-the-draw, it doesn’t really matter if you are in the front, middle, or the back of the line.
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The Denver store uses a ticket system and they move groups through in 20 minute segments that they call “color waves.” So an hour before the sale starts (get the sale start times on the store’s event page) a guy comes out with a box full of tickets: blue, pink, orange, etc. Another option is to buy your membership online, print out your receipt, and bring it with you. If you’re not, don’t let that stop you you’ll still be admitted to the garage sale and you can purchase your membership when you checkout (not sure if all stores work this way). Here are the basics: You have to be an REI member. Let’s get into it How the REI Garage Sale Works If the Denver Flagship store is not your home store, then give yours a call for the details on how they run their garage sales.

I’ll explain that in the next section on how the whole things works. Because of the high volume of gear and high number of members who come through their garage sales they have had to develope some unique the protocols. It sounds like most stores have a first-come-first-served policy–not Denver. This guide is based on how things work at the downtown Denver, Colorado REI location. To create a guide to the REI Garage Sale, I took about 4 hours stalking the store, talking with Denverites who were pros at this, took notes, and got some gear myself.
