After the garage sale a couple of weeks ago I took a lot of stuff to St Vinnie's and the rest I photographed and put on eBay.
Jeepers, it's a full-time job trying to sell stuff on eBay. People have questions. I've had several emails a day asking me to measure this, estimate that, can they send a courier and how far am I from the Timbuktu town centre?
After seven days of this I feel exhausted. Every item has sold and I now have to arrange for pickups and couriers. To boot I have to be nice and efficient so that I get a good "seller rating". That will all take another 15 or so emails.
I tell you, garage sales are a doddle by comparison. Mind you with a combination of garage sale and eBay we now have over $1000 in the Bikes.For.Christmas fund. All from stuff that was clogging up our shed/junk room.
Do you eBay?
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Woo hoo ! well done ...I haven't sold on ebay yet and I am desperate to have a garage sale to de clutter and get rid of the baby stuff and assorted c r a p.
I might have to take the plunge and list on ebay.
I used to ebay, but it just got 'too much like hard work'... now I just accumulate all of the stuff that is too good to throw out, and that I should sell, but am too lazy... eventually we'll run out of room and I suppose have a garage sale ;)
Hooray to you for moving all your stuff to new homes!
I've bought on eBay, but I've never sold. I do find it quite amazing what people will buy on eBay and how much they'll pay for it.
I have sold a couple of things on eBay. I am right off it at the moment though after my last experience. I put the laptop I won on there and the guy who was the winning bidder was a right ... idiot. Talk about demanding! Whinged about not being able to pick up and then if I didn't respond right away he sent me messages saying, 'are you alive?' So, no, not doing that again any time soon.
Oh I certainly do!
I've bought heaps, most notably shoes from the UK x 10. The secret is to always buy the same brand so you're sure the sizing will be right.
I've sold a lot of the boys' clothes. Not the crappy every day stuff, but their good things. Got good money too.
Our best ever sale was our old pool fence which was ugly, but we still got $800 for it.
I used to sell a bit on ebay - mostly offloading old books and various things from around the house. I had a bit of success, most notably when I sold all the curtains in the house for $1000! That went a long way to paying for the timber venetians that replaced them.
Mostly though, it is hard work - there's a lot of monitoring and trudging back and forth to the post office for very little reward.
I'm still pretty scared of ebay and am finding I'm giving away as much of the baby paraphernalia as possible. To good homes, so to speak. Tap students are quite a good source of offloading, turns out. As are school fetes.
You've just made me more scared really.
Yes I love it, I got rid of unwanted furniture, sporting equipment and things the kids had grown out of like snowsuits. It was hard work but I made almost $2000 so it was worth it. I got to know the lady in the Post Office quite well that's for sure.
snowsuits! That's something I forgot to sell.
It all sounds like too much work for not enough return to me. Although... you have made enough money for your bikes!
we have a garage full of stuff to go on ebay. I've even photographed it. Just can't bring myself to do it.
Am contemplating a garage sale too. Really should do it.
I have been toying with the idea of listing a couple of bags I bought when I thought such things might give me lasting pleasure.
You know - LV etc - do you think I should?
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