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I posted this on another thread, but it is more appropriate here:

quote=Burt B.Hey Jilly,

Nice to see you posting again

I'll always remember you reaching out to me in friendship when I was new to Bella and kinda down and out in Beverly Hills

Now I get to return the favor

Connie, my better half, has been experiment with on-line garage and yard sales for over 4 years now and she had a bumpy road for a long time.

There was a lot of chaos and drama against the admin for enforcing decency rules of respect in the groups.

But, as she has just told me, all and all it is a good place to get rid of unwanted merchandise and things you simply don't want or need anymore.

Connie went through a lot of bummed out times when it was slow and did not take off.

Well, it did take off and over time she grew it to over 5000 members and had to have help with other admin.

She was structuring it on her own and was trying to keep people in the right categories and manage drama.

Well, as luck would have it, she was very fortunate to find out that there is a group of folks on facebook who have solved the majority of problems with an app inside facebook called

https:
//www.varagesale.com

So, save your $47 and find a VarageSale group in your area !!

They have over 300,000 groups that span the globe.

It is all done through facebook.

1) Have to have a facebook account.
2) The app is inside facebook called VS
3) Find a group in your area and ask to join !

I really, really hope this helps you out as it is very organized and orderly with over thousands of people buying and sell per group 24 / 7 !! !!!

Though this VarageSale, Connie and I have gotten everything from pots and pans brand new in the box to patio furniture Brand New $75 for the set -- brand new computer for dirt cheap, clothes, books, beds, antiques, jewelry, real gold for pennies on the dollar !!!

She is sitting in a slightly used leather chair with a matching ottoman for $15 !!!

We even got yard work done simply by asking who wanted to do it !!

Very inexpensive.

Times are hard and people are really taking advantage of this buying and selling person to person without a middleman !!

Here in Florida you have to have a permit for a physical yard sale limited to 2 per year.

But that does not apply to on-line yard sales.

It was made by a lady in Montreal Canada who's husband wrote the app to keep things orderly.

So, check it out Jilly

They have a map so you can find a group locally to you in AZ or CA.

Virtual Garage Sale !!

Best on The Planet !!!

There are individual yard sales on facebook, but since Connie started one on her own and was the admin, it became to unruly to manage, so now VarageSale is more organized and orderly so it pretty much runs itself without her pulling her hair out.

Hope this helps

Burt & Connie

I work well with Craigslist, but then I have no problem with people being flaky. I expect it and am flaky myself.

I just ask people to text me if they are interested in something, and to let me know when they are heading out to the agreed meeting place. I won't meet someone if they aren't texting to say, "On my way." The system works well for my level of expectations.

I like that it is cash-based, and it is free to use the system.

Lisa, as far as selling the bird cage, if it's worth more, maybe hold onto it for a while and relist later at the price you want. Maybe after the holidays people will want nice cages for the birds they got for Christmas.

Or maybe try another ad and list it for more. With the loveseat I just sold, there was no action on it when i listed it for $25. So I made another ad, listing it for $50. And suddenly I had people interested. People might figure your cage is worth more if you asked $75 or something. it might be worth trying.

My Craigslist trading update. This is fun:

I took the $25 loveseat Dan got on craigslist, which he didn't want and was planning to drop off at Goodwill. I put a $25 ad on CL and got no love. So then I relisted it at "$50 Or Trade", and suddenly people were popping up.

I agreed to a trade with a nice mini-fridge, just so see if I could list THAT for more than the $50 loveseat.

I cleaned up the fridge and posted it at "$100 Or Trade" on CL yesterday. Today someone offered me $75 for it and I agreed. If they come out this afternoon, as planned, then I turned a loveseat that we were going to donate away into $75.

And I am still getting offers for the $50 loveseat, even though I took the ad down.

I am still also getting offers for my Jeep, even though the ad is down. I decided to keep the jeep for now and sell it again later in AZ, since jeeps are going for more there than here in CA. If I did take either of the two jeep offers I have here, though, I will in the end have sold it for only $100 more than I bought it, a year and a half ago.

YAY, success! I just sold the mini-fridge for $75. The buyer got a deal and we got a deal. Everyone is happy. I just did the rooster dance with my mother.

So that is one way to make $75 from nothing (a loveseat Dan wanted to give away for nothing). I put the money into my Europe trip savings.

Do you have anything in your house you are not using? See if you can sell it, or at least trade it for something you CAN sell.

What aren't you using? I can help you figure out how to sell it.