I make it a habit of never wheeling the garbage cart to the curb...until it's jammed full.

If the normal bags take up half the space, I find unused items to fill it.

Win-Win.

Sometimes trying to get people to get off their butt and come over is really hard. You practicaly have to pay them to come and get your stuff. The stuff I put on fb is only because its too big to ship. Stuff like lawnmowers and the like is usually what i put on there and usually not less than 40 bucks or so. Garage sales are alot of work but very good at clearing out if you have enough to make it worth people coming.

I had a tenant called Tracey Welman do a runner owing a month or two of rent. She left the complete house lot of furniture, fridge, crockery, cutlery, beds, couches... I phoned about five charities and all of them said no they didn't want it. I said to Salvation Army it's everything to set up a family in a home. They said bring it all in and we'll see if there is anything we want. NO. I gave the fridge away, sold the two couches for $700 and took the rest to the dump.

Me as well. If I think I can get $50+ I will list it on CL and when the buyer arrives I offer them no charge to take other stuff. No that I have a truck I will be hitting local goodwill with stuff I am just sitting on and taking space.

I actually sell quite a bit online. Mostly using Facebook marketplace.
To answer to OP’s question, for pricing, I determine a basic value ( I look for similar items, if I can’t spitball a price), then decide how much I would pay for it…and then reduce it by 25%.
That is for my initial listing price. Is it to low, maybe, but most things sell like hotcakes.

My philosophy is that I want to get rid of this stuff. Any money is better than no money. I don’t have to haul it all over gods green earth to dispose of it. Someone that wants it comes and gets it. My hands only get dirty from handling the money.

I have sold in excess of 2.5 k in 2023 just casually clearing out stuff. This year will probably at least double that amount.

Good luck

I sell a fair bit of stuff on Marketplace. I price things very fairly, on the low side, then I stick to my price. I only drop my price for big items that I want gone for space reasons.

I ignore low offers, or I reply and say, 'Sorry, I have lots of people interested in this item, the price is firm'. This reply works surprisingly often.

I also NEVER change my schedule for buyers. I tell them when I'm home (or at work) and what pick-up times work for me. If buyers don't show up as promised , I don't really care.

I sell stuff for as low as $10, and things that don't sell get donated. Or relisted a month later.

Told this story before. Sold a 1961 Schwinn Jaguar "gas tank" on Craigs list for $60. Back and forth. Down to $50. Guy comes over and says how about $45. I'm PO'd now and say $60 and he caved.

I'd have to divorce myself from the drama becaue it's always present in some form or another.

^^ +1

Watched this unfurl at a garage sale.

Owner had a nice detailed pattern Pewter coffee mug.

He was asking $10 bucks for it.

Buyer offers $2-3 dollars.

Irked owner says no, $10 firm.

Buyer sighs, and says they'll offer $5 and no more.

Owner chuckles, takes the Pewter Mug over to his garbage cans and smashed the Pewter shattering it to pieces. I think he handed the cup handle to the buyer.

grins. True Story.


For me, I was born into a garage sale / Thrift Store visit every weekend Mom. She'd literally draw out a map to hit several on the same day. It was a game to her. While she didn't low ball people, half the fun WAS the bartering. On a 50 cent item she'd offer a Quarter, the seller settled on 35 cents. For me, if someone is asking a buck for something I just pay them the buck. Pissed my Mom off to no end that I didn't haggle.......grins. Today at any one time I have about a dozen items up for sale on Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, or Ebay.

It bugs me when people make a low ball offer on something they haven't even seen or touched it yet. That's just rude in my book. I price things typically 1/2 price of new with room to negotiate. But sorry no, I won't take $200 for my fairly priced $300 item for sale. My standards to sell is a minimum of $20-25 bucks an item. Otherwise its not worth my time to handle and sell it.

There is a Facebook group called "Declutter365" offering tips to clean out old junk.

I try to never take an half-full garbage can to the curb. ALWAYS something else you can add to it.

I dug through my Pantry and Spice shelves and tossed out 20-30 old jars of crap recently.

walk through your house or garage with an empty Hefty sack and really purge the area of excessive crap. Heck I scanned the freezer and noted I had 12 boxes/pounds of butter in it. I gave 4 boxes each to a neighbor and sister of mine. Finding Expired meat too during a deep freezer dive.

^hehehe!!! :)

Yesterday, I gave the buyer numerous options/times for pickup.
No response. I just wrote back that if he doesn't respond by high noon*** today, I'm moving on to the next buyer.
***tumbleweeds roll***

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I've seen opossum's with better motivation than this guy. :rolleyes:

I rarely sell anything on CL or FBMP. Only if it’s over $200-300. I stripped the interior of my 330 and although many things had value, I loaded it in my truck and threw it in the dumpster at work. I just didn’t want to spend time or space to get rid of it all.

I have an alley in back. This is the most efficient way of ridding things. It's anyone's guess where if ends up unless it's metal. This year there will be a couple crates of Christmas decorations.

I'm still holding onto 911 S brake pins. I don't know why and I don't know where they are. I just know what they are. At on time NLA, but I'm sure that has changed.

I started a thread yesterday to maybe help Pelicans get rid of stuff they don't need. I thought offering it here first before doing something else with it would be a great idea, since we have common interests. Unfortunately, no on has visited the thread, so the only stuff there is mine.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1153271-just-pay-shipping-handling.html

^Thanks.
I've got some stuff I want to put up there, but it might be a while. I cancelled my existing listings, and it might be a week or two before I get around to messing with other stuff. One thing I want to look into is the P-Car stuff, I'm guessing it needs to go straight to marketplace, even if it is free. For example, I've got a 66 911 front lower strut assembly just sitting on my trailer. Seems to have good bearing/spindle, etc. Lots of other p-car and non p-car trinkets too. I've also got a bunch of older gauges. I'm guessing they go straight to markeplace?

Thanks again.
Ron