That must have been one valuable sale item to wait 3 hours!

I wait 15 minutes max (at my storage facility) and then head home. If they show up they sometimes tell the manager they're "looking for the guy with the gizmo for sale" at which time the manager calls me and I either return (from 1 mile away) or ask to speak to the 'buyer' and tell him to come to a location 6 blocks away from me.

Yes, I have a GOOD storage facility helper team !

I'm exaggerating a bit but really you get these people who like string you along. YOu dont leave cuz they say theyre only 5 minutes away tehn you call them again still only 5 minutes away.

I recenntly sold a car on cl. Guy calls me says hes comming out, I got stuff to do errands to run but says he'll be over in an hour lives by ohare, cool come on over. Hour goes by, I figure I wont pester the guy I'll give him another 15 or 20. Call him, oh so sorry he's running late, had to borrow a car blah blah blah. Another hour goes by call him hey I'm not waiting around all day you comming? Yeah I'm only 13 miles away. Some more time passes call him up, I'm not waiting any longer I'm leaving got stuff to do, oh no dont leave I'm 5 minutes away. 20 minutes later he hsows up, low balls me, we finally come to an agreedupon price very good deal for him Im jus so sick of dealing with flakes and assclownns like this guy I wanna get the sale done. he says let me run to the bank, runs to the bank never comes back never calls.

Not a bad idea, but I think that when you do that, you open yourself up for ghosting and flagging.

as long as your keywrods are legit i dont think people will get pissed. like travis said sofa, loveseat, couch, seating, etc would all be legit. what annoys me is when someone lists a toyota for sale and then in the bottom of description has toyota, honda, hyundai, elantra, geo, ford,...you get the point. what also annoys me is when someone is like selling a Yamaha V Star or something and in the title puts NOT HARLEY lol obviously its not a harley dumbass keyword stuffer!!! that annoys me and ill flag and wont buy on principal

man im late to the game just noticed this thread now

I don't think it actually sends me any sales but once you setup the initial ads its really easy to keep renewing them forever. As opposed to some sites where you have to repost the whole ad its literally one click to repost it once it's expired so if you have a consistant product you sell once you place your ad once it's essentially up forever as long as you clikc the link inthe email when they expire. so i guess doesnt work well but may as well do it even it it ends in one sale its worth the effort.

I think homegrown is right, everyone thinks their item has a higher value than the next persons. I personally love the barter section, I was on the barter section like 10 years ago before people knew what bartering was. I used to make beanbag toss games aka cornhole games. It probably cost me about $12 in supplies to make a game but this was before every store was selling cheap plastic and bolsa wood crap versions. The only way you used to be able to find them was driving down the road and seeing them in someones yard or maybe at a flear market. They went for anywehre from $75 to $200 depending on the type of wood, hinged or not, designs, lights, etc.

Anyhow, I used to trade them for all types of good stuff, great tickets to sporting events and concerts, etc. Basically what cost me $12 in supplies I could trade for almost $400 worth of tickets. Why? Because one mans junk is another mans treasure. Most of the guys I traded tickets with got them for free from work so the tickets meant nothing to them in terms of csot but a beanbag game for their tickets was a $100 item tehy didnt have to spend a penny out their own pocket for. On the other hand I could take my gf and a few buddies to a sporting event that would have cost $400 and it really only cost me $12 and an hour or two of my time.

Bartering can be a pain but you can often get more bang for your buck than selling. The thing that annoys me is the people who dont have one item worth anything so they try to send lists.

For example...Sorry I dont have $500 to buy your motorcycle but I do have....

1 laptop plug for a hp netbook
lamp
dog crate
origional xbox
3 playstation controllers
ipod nano

and basically just give you a long list or random and worthless crap

Magazines  you have may not sell but overall magazines can be good. Just look on ebay lots of people charging like $7 and more per magazine. Probably more for magazines with a cult following, people who want every issue or collect them. Anything current events is probably garbage as the news is old but magazines like rolling stone where maybe someone wants the one with their fav artist on the cover, gun magazines, things wheere the content doesn't get old may sell. If nothing else bring a box to the flea market and sell as a lot or like a quarter per magazine.

Ebay isn't what it used to be, yeah there's a lot of drop sellers selling the same chinese made crap and some things are high priced. Honestly though if I'm gonna buy a current item thats for sale I'll probably go to amazon since I have a prime account. Also, overall I find amazon to be more consistant in terms of professional sellers who ship in a fast manner.

Just think about it when someone is getting hit with 10-14% fees anything that you can get at another store is basically gonna be marked up that much so the seller can make money.

Ebay is great however for buying things not available anymore like a power cord to an older laptop. Go buy a universal one at bestbuy for over a 100 bucks or go on ebay find someone selling one for like $6. Car parts, used things, etc.

One thing ebay has lost is there used to be a lot of cool unique items and now its all the same stuff but money can be made off ebay. I used to be kind of down on ebay I was making really small margins and buyers tend ot be a pain knowing the seller will bend over backward to avoid feedback. Now however my off ebay business has slowed and ebay is almost my entire business and my margins have gotten better. Not boring in my opinion.

always refreshing to deal with a pleasant grateful buyer vs complainers and scammers.