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Group sales, as we call them here at Garage Sale Trail HQ, are like a mega version of a garage sale with multiple stallholders selling their wares.

It could be a thrift market, suitcase rummage, car boot sale or epic street party with the neighbours and each year hundreds of them are registered on the trail.

Fancy selling or shopping at one? From September 2025, you can search for group sales happening near you on the national map.

Support for planning your group sale

If you're a community group, school, charity, unit block or bunch of mates thinking about taking your garage sale to the next level, hosting your event over the Garage Sale Trail weekends might just make it all a little bit easier.

Read on for our quick guide to the support provided for market organisers & more.

First up, the Garage Sale Trail website

Market and car boot sale organisers can use the Garage Sale Trail website to recruit and manage stallholders, all in one dashboard.

Your garage sale listing on the site functions as an advert for your sale, with community members able to request to join as a stallholder.

You'll get notified every time someone applies, together with all their info, and can choose to approve or decline them at the click of a button.

How-to guide, tips & support

Once you've registered you'll get access to a how-to guide that steps you through how to plan your event, manage stallholders and advertise locally. Registrations open in September 2025.

You'll also find ready-made templates such as a run sheet for the day and example emails to send to stallholders.

And to top it all off you'll have the support of the Garage Sale Trail team over email and an army of over 600+ garage sale experts in our private facebook group, exclusively for registered sellers.

Promoting your event

Last but not least, we make it easy to promote your sale.

Not only will you benefit from the national media and marketing campaign Garage Sale Trail and your local council runs but you'll also get a bunch of free promotional materials ready-made for you, including directional signage, price tags, letterbox slips and social media tiles.

You choose whether to use the standard materials provided or the Canva templates to design your own look and feel for your garage sale / market / car boot.

And while we're here, let's not forget that by registering for Garage Sale Trail you'll be part of a national movement that saves over 4 million kgs of good stuff from landfill.

The essentials

📆 Garage Sale Trail is on next on 8-19 & 15-16 November 2025.

🆓 It's free to participate in, thanks to the support of over 80 local councils around Australia.

📍 You can take part on one day or do more, Australia-wide.

Join the wait list to be the first to know when registrations open.