Global Garage Sale is a family of eBay drop-off stores specializing in online consignment services for businesses, individuals and non-profit groups. We are looking for more people interested in opening their own eBay drop-off stores. Global Garage Sale has spent the last three years developing and refining our System and custom software, and are now proud to offer franchise business opportunities in the Northeast Kingdom region. This region has sufficient population density to support one or more Global Garage Sale eBay drop-off stores. The New England area is rich in history and full of collectibles and antiquities that do very well on eBay.

The town of St. Johnsbury was originally granted in 1760 as part of the New Hampshire Grants and named Bessborough. However, it was regranted by Vermont in 1786 as Dunmore, and the town's first settlers of European descent were led by Dr. Jonathan Arnold, a member of the Continental Congress and the author of Rhode Island's act of secession from the United Kingdom in May, 1776. Arnold left Rhode Island in 1787 and he and six other families built their homes in what is now the center of town. By 1790 the town had grown to 143 inhabitants, and the first town meeting took place in Arnold's home that year, where the name St, Johnsbury was adopted. According to local lore, Vermont founder Ethan Allen himself proposed naming the town St. John in honor of his friend Jean de Crèvecoeur, a French-born author and agriculturist and a friend of Benjamin Franklin (he was known in the United States as J. Hector St. John). According to this account, de Crèvecoeur suggested instead the unusual St. Johnsbury to differentiate it from Saint John, New Brunswick. In the mid-1800s, St. Johnsbury became a minor manufacturing center, with the main products being scales -- the platform scale was invented there by Thaddeus Fairbanks in 1830 -- and maple syrup and related products. With the coming of the railroad line from Boston to Montreal in the 1850s, St. Johnsbury grew quickly and was named the shire town (county seat) in 1856, replacing Danville.

A Global Garage Sale eBay drop-off store in the Northeast Kingdom region will have the opportunity to sell antiques, collectibles, heirlooms, motor vehicles and other quality merchandise from local businesses and households. Your drop-off store will be in an exclusive territory, and will be a fun, convenient and secure way for local people to sell their items to the millions of eBay buyers around the world. Contact us to learn more about our Company and how you can open your own Global Garage Sale eBay drop-off store.