This is my issue with the sale websites as well. You have to clean and take good photos of all your items, write descriptive comments, price competitively, which usually has to be one of the top 3 - 5 if not the lowest, handle people not showing up, or people showing up who offer you $0.05 on the dollar, adjust your schedule, and give out your address to strangers who may just want to check if you have an alarm system in place. Then if you have young children, you have to either make arrangements to keep them occupied, or bring them with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by lilo0003
DH always asks me if I really want to risk safety for $5. Once, I met a lady at 10 PM at the Indigo to do a trade. That worked out well, but I think it's the only one. I'm really dragging my feet on items like my wedding dress or an old TV we have. People would have to come into our house to see them/try them out, and that's not much of an incentive for me.
On the bright side, DH's co-worker has agreed to take our old crib. A friend gave it to us in case we needed it and she got it from a family member who put it through her three or four children. I'm going to include a full Noah's Ark bedding set with comforter, 2 fitted crib sheets, a bumper pad, and one of those decorations that hang on the headboard with squeaky toys and crinkly animals built in. It's almost too cute to get rid of and I could use the comforter for future daycare, but it's a selling tactic to get rid of everything as a set. I'll also be including a box of baby clothes and the crib mattress, printed assembly instructions in colour, and the additional repair bolts as it was involved in a recall. The crib is a solid wooden crib in oak and I sold it for $50 less than the lowest price on kijiji, but I won't have to have people coming in and out of the house offering me far less than it's worth.
Well, we'll see if DH actually remembers to ask for money or if I just gave it away for free. If I am giving it away for free, I'm keeping a few things!
