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19 year old growing Grand Slam Garage Sales

Intuit
"I started Grand Slam Garage Sales after my mom had a garage sale..."

The Art of Negotiation

PBS - Biz Kids
PBS asked Grand Slam Garage Salesto teach young kids how to negotiate. The show is about teaching kids about business, so Grand Slam Garage Sales was glad to do it! To see the article - goto show season 2, episode 206 - profile: Grand Slam Garage Sales.

 

Garage sale business success for new team

Bellaire Examiner
With the economy slumpingto levels that have not been seen since the Great Depression, businesses are struggling. Store closures, cutbacks and layoffs have become common place. Allof which makes the current success of Grand Slam Garage Sales quite impressive.

 

Entrepreneurial teens hit home run

Memorial Examiner
With the economy slumping to levels that have not been seen since the Great Depression, businesses are struggling. Store closures, cutbacks and layoffs have become common place. All of which makes the current success of Grand Slam Garage Sales quite impressive.

 

With economy struggling, teens hit home run

River Oaks Examiner
With the economy slumping to levels that have not been seen since the Great Depression, businesses are struggling. Store closures, cutbacks and layoffs have become common place. Allof which makes the current success of Grand Slam Garage Sales quite impressive.

 

Some Welcome Spring With Garage Sales

Fox 26 News
This is a clip of Fox 26 news after they asked us to do a quick interview for a garage sale story they were doing. In the story, the reporter talks about how "a bad economy is the perfect storm for garage sales."

 

Svendite da garage (Italian)

Italian Millionaire Magazine
AnItalian magazine wrote about us!:) "Sono sempre stato un tipointraprendente: ho cominciato a sette anni, facendo lavoretti per parenti eamici e vendendo limonata. Quando poi, due anni fa, ho aiutato mia madre aorganizzare una garage sale a casa nostra, ho scoperto di essere bravo amercanteggiare con i clienti e ho pensato a come offrire un servizio completo.Con 1.000 dollari e l'aiuto di un amico per la costruzione del sito Internet,ho fondato Grand Slam Garage Sales...

 

Winning garage sale tips

ABC 13 News
This is a clip from ABC 13 inHouston, Texas. ABC asked the local Grand Slam Garage Sales to give them some garage sale tips. Note to you viewers...there are a few things in this clipthat are wrong. In the clip, the Houston manager (Kegan) says that GSGS is owned and operated by high school students. That was mistaken. He just didn't say it correctly as this was before we were franchising! The workers who work the jobs are high school and college students and the franchisees and corporate staff are made up of all sorts of people including many adults. Also, the news reporter says that everything is sold for $1. That's actually a humorous mistake!:) We sell many smaller items for $1 and never less, but by no means do we sell everything for $1.

 

How to Make Money at Garage Sales without Lifting a Finger

About.com
One day not too long ago, Ben Weissenstein, a senior in high school at the time, was helping his mom set up her yard sale. Although he had been to numerous yard sales over the years, he had never been involved in the set up process before. As he was helping her, he had an idea. Why not do this kind of thing on a much bigger scale?

 

Local Entrepreneur Hits Grand Slam With Consumers

ABC 13 News
ABC 13 did a story on the Houston Grand Slam Garage Sales.

 

Cleaning Up

Entrepeneur.com
When his high school peers were just getting their driver's licenses, Ben Weissenstein was already taking a swing at the business world. An entrepreneur since his first childhood lemonade stand, Weissenstein started his current business after helping his mom with agarage sale. "She said, 'You could make money by helping people out. A lot of people need this service.' I took that to heart and ran with it," hesays.

 

For sale: slightly used items

Houston Chronicle
No one wants to have agarage sale, but everyone wants to deep-six the lawn chairs, children's pajamas, outdated exercise equipment and so much more that accumulates faster than it can be corralled. That's where Grand Slam Garage Sales comes in.

 

Young CEO Starts Garage Sale Business

Village News
Garage Sales, like moving, taxes,and changing a flat tire, are a pain. They require time, patience, andmusculature most of us have forgotten we had. That's where Ben Weissenstein comes in. Weissenstein, who is a senior at Episcopal High School this year, has created a successful business of managing people's garage sales for them, hassle-free. ...From where we sit, it looks like he'll succeed. After all, as CEO of a company he started when he was still a minor, Weissenstein is inrarefied company. Bill Gates started Microsoft at age 20. Weissenstein is evenyounger, and he's not slowing down anytime soon.

 

Got junk?

Jewish Herald Voice
Weissenstein and Blumenthal, business development director, and their 25 high school contract workers, will advertise and run the entire garage sale. This service includes bringing all the necessary supplies, setting up the sale, managing the sale,and cleaning your garage following the sale.

 

Teen CEO hits it big with garage salebusiness

Fox 26 News
"...One young, smart, greatentrepreneur"

 

Live interview with Ben Weissenstein

Fox 26 News
"...(Ben) is hitting a grandslam with consumers when it comes to garage sales"

 

Two Houston teenagers operate garagesale business...

KUHF Houston Public Radio
Two southwest Houston high school students have been running a garage sale business that offers start-to-finish services such as pricing items, advertising, managing the sale and leaving the property holder a cleaned-out garage.

 

Teens make your junk their business

Bellaire Examiner/West U Examiner/River Oaks Examiner
Theclock hadn't struck noon yet, but already the garage sale on Beech Street in Bellaire Saturday had unloaded nearly $1,000 in merchandise -- without theseller lifting a finger. "The stuff just flew out of here," said Wade McCloud, a junior at Episcopal High and a happy employee of B&E GarageSales, founded and staffed by high school students. "It's a good concept," McCloud said admiringly. "I wish I'd thought of it."

 

Students' business helps people clean up

Houston Chronicle
Two enterprising students started their own business in April and are now considering turning it into anational franchise.

 

Turning a mountain of junk into cash

Bellaire Buzz/West U Buzz
Hi! Myname is Ben Weissenstein and I’m a junior at Episcopal High School. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been interested in two things: playing baseball and making money!

 

Cleaning Up

Entrepeneur.com
When his high school peers were just getting their driver's licenses, Ben Weissenstein was already taking a swing at the business world. An entrepreneur since his first childhood lemonade stand, Weissen-stein started his current business after helping his mom with a garage sale. "She said, 'You could make money by helping people out. A lot of people need this service.' I took that to heart and ran with it," he says.

WhizVentures

whizventures.com 
Ben started his first venture at 4 with a lemonade stand and a good timing and ended up on the front page of the main newspaper in the city. He then started his current garage sale business at 14. Ben is now 19 and has several businesses, some of which are pretty innovative. The garage sale business, for instance, is so innovative that it has the merit of not having any competition yet (for the time being, because when others see such a successful business, they will copy the idea for sure before long!). Grand Slam Garage Sales is going to be offered as a franchise as of August 2009 or thereabouts.