Party Tents For Sale

You rarely find party tents for sale when you need them.  If you are like most people, the last time you needed a tent – probably the ONLY time you’ve needed a tent, if you are truly like most people – you ended up settling for a tent rental.  “Settling” not because you really wanted a tent you could keep forever, but because you likely paid almost as much for renting the tent as it would have cost to buy one, if you could have found one to buy.
Canopy tents are popular during the summer months for use as wedding tents, but who needs a wedding tent after the wedding?  In fact, if you are lucky it won’t rain and you won’t even need it the one time.  Many people don’t.  The weather is beautiful on their wedding day and they suddenly have a tent that they have never used and never intend to use, unless they rented it for probably the same cost as buying it.  Many of those people, especially the e-Bay savvy ones, hit their favorite online auction site as soon as they return from their honeymoon and –viola!- suddenly there is a listing for a party tent for sale.
At the time this article was written there were 18 used party tents for sale on e-Bay.  No search was done on Craigslist, another prime site for obtaining a used anything.  A general browser search turned up no less than four websites which specialize in re-selling used party tents.
So, the market is active, there are products in the pipe, now for the puzzler – how do you select a used party tent?  Well, look at it as if you were buying a brand new one.  Would you buy a tent from a retail store if it had a lurid stain, liquids and origins unknown, in the corner?  Of course you wouldn’t.  There are plenty of used tents to choose from, so why buy someone else’s stains?  Pass those by and look for tents advertised in “like new” condition.  What about bent supports?  Again, would you buy a demo model tent from a retailer after someone had backed their SUV into the corner posts and bent them?  If the answer is no (which it should be, because structurally damaged supports can fail at inconvenient times), then don’t buy a used model with bent supports either.  Rips in the canvas?  The answer is the same.  Maybe the tent is like new, but is made from canvas in a truly hideous color.  Stop and think for a moment.  You don’t want to buy a new tent because you only need it this once.  You would probably like to sell it afterward, wouldn’t you?  The doubts you are having about buying it new are the same doubts that your buyer are going to have later.  Buy something that will be easy for you to sell off after you are done with the tent!

You rarely find party tents for sale when you need them.  If you are like most people, the last time you needed a tent – probably the ONLY time you’ve needed a tent, if you are truly like most people – you ended up settling for a tent rental.  “Settling” not because you really wanted a tent you could keep forever, but because you likely paid almost as much for renting the tent as it would have cost to buy one, if you could have found one to buy.

Canopy tents are popular during the summer months for use as wedding tents, but who needs a wedding tent after the wedding?  In fact, if you are lucky it won’t rain and you won’t even need it the one time.  Many people don’t.  The weather is beautiful on their wedding day and they suddenly have a tent that they have never used and never intend to use, unless they rented it for probably the same cost as buying it.  Many of those people, especially the e-Bay savvy ones, hit their favorite online auction site as soon as they return from their honeymoon and –viola!- suddenly there is a listing for a party tent for sale.

At the time this article was written there were 18 used party tents for sale on e-Bay.  No search was done on Craigslist, another prime site for obtaining a used anything.  A general browser search turned up no less than four websites which specialize in re-selling used party tents.

So, the market is active, there are products in the pipe, now for the puzzler – how do you select a used party tent?  Well, look at it as if you were buying a brand new one.  Would you buy a tent from a retail store if it had a lurid stain, liquids and origins unknown, in the corner?  Of course you wouldn’t.  There are plenty of used tents to choose from, so why buy someone else’s stains?  Pass those by and look for tents advertised in “like new” condition.  What about bent supports?  Again, would you buy a demo model tent from a retailer after someone had backed their SUV into the corner posts and bent them?  If the answer is no (which it should be, because structurally damaged supports can fail at inconvenient times), then don’t buy a used model with bent supports either.  Rips in the canvas?  The answer is the same.  Maybe the tent is like new, but is made from canvas in a truly hideous color.  Stop and think for a moment.  You don’t want to buy a new tent because you only need it this once.  You would probably like to sell it afterward, wouldn’t you?  The doubts you are having about buying it new are the same doubts that your buyer are going to have later.  Buy something that will be easy for you to sell off after you are done with the tent!

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