Put plenty of signs / ballons out for your yard sale and you may be surprised.  My wife's uncle lived at the end of a dirt road a mile from the backroad to get there.  He put up signs by the main hwy, at the end of the dirt road, etc.  He would do pretty well many days.

At least you have the comforts of home and if it's a nice day you can do other stuff outside if you don't get many customers.  Good luck.

I have 2 more things with bids on ebay and meeting on the luggage today.  If he don't buy it already have another lady interested.  Is sometimes funny how CL works.

Ya - I wish I had the time and resources to shop the various thrift stores and goodwill/salvation army stores in my area.  I'm lucky that I have a full time job and 2 active kids.  So I don't have the time to visit and research.  I hit goodwill up every now and then but that place is pretty dry anymore.  Working to network with the other auction people in my area now to buy their busted computers and such electronics.

Sounds like it is still hit or miss out there.  I was upset last month as I knew I would miss the first Saturday of this month due to my girls ice skate competetion.  Turned out it was windy, rain / t-storms all Saturday so didn't miss much.  Sunday was very windy and mid 50s so I skipped going and worked on the sheds.

Sold 1 hd on ebay for $50 ($33 profit after mail/fees)

Doing a trade with buddy for my glass table/4 chairs for a mini-bike I lost to him on last month.  He can make money w/ the table - I should be able to with the mini-bike so is good deal for both of us.

Got a few hits on CL last night also for some luggage I had.  $15 for cheap set of walmart luggage if it sells tuesday.  Not making a ton of money but so far I'm in the black still.  Most of my money has been coming from individual items I've found or scavanaged.  Sitting on a large amount of inventory so have to hit the flea this weekend if the weather will be nice.  So far early forcast is wind and t-storms again this weekend.

Time to hit the scrap yard I think and make $70 - $100 for the trash.  It's amazing what some people toss out.

Count your blessings that you got a really good unit and a great price.

You can pay to have it delivered.  I think you end up renting it for a month also in order for that to be done.  IMO it isn't worth it.  Most pod auctions go for $1k and higher.

This yahoo article made me think of you MovieMan.  Guy made $10,000 on eBay by doing the same things MovieMan and I'm sure others of us here do.  Looking for cheap items to re-sell on ebay.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-person-made-10-000-ebay-last-163100368.html

Silverware is a finicky sale.  At the local flea sets of forks will sell very quickly.  Individual forks will go for a quarter each most days.  The small spoons, knives, and such are very much up in the air.

If you have a complete set that will make it easier to sell.  Do a quick search on replacement.com and ebay for the specific set/style to get as much info as you can.

I put my stuff I had found up on ebay but it didn't sell.  Have not tried again yet.  I split my listings out by type, so forks in one, spoons, etc.  May try it as a complete set next time.

I will say polishing it up would make it sell better at the flea and think ebay IMO.  However, there are so many different buyers on ebay who knows if they would really care or not.  One may, but the other three may not.  All up to how much time you have on your hands.  Myself, I'd inventory it all, snap a picture of it on the kitchen table, and list it w/o spending a ton of time on it.  Then if it don't sell can re-visit it.