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Aug. 18th, 2007 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonToday's interesting discovery: If you have some item you just want to get the hell RID of, and you (a) are under the gun on time, or (b) feel the inconvenience of figuring out a price for it, dealing with buyers' suspiciousness, etc., outweighs any piddly gain you could make by a sale -- then boy HOWDY, is the "Free" category on Craigslist ever a fast way to get rid of stuff. I mean, like, whole orders of magnitude more volume and speed of response.
I've posted four things on there yesterday and today, and in each case, I had multiple responses literally within five minutes of the post going live. I can only imagine there are people who have a feed set up for that category and watch it like a hawk. Now, in each case these were things of some (limited) value that I probably could have gotten some (piddly) money for if I'd been willing to go through the aggravation, but wow, is it ever worth it to just get this stuff gone, fast. And there's a nice sense of cleanness about giving stuff away, I find, not having to worry about whether I'm asking too much or too little, not getting all over-torqued about $20-30 one way or the other (and I know how lucky I am to be currently in enough financial comfort that $20-30 one way or the other is less important than personal convenience. That's a luxury, I know.)
So -- funky old file cabinet, beat-up ancient desk chair, beat-up ancient dining chairs, and the goddamned air conditioner that never worked right, all are gone and out of my life, YAY.
I've posted four things on there yesterday and today, and in each case, I had multiple responses literally within five minutes of the post going live. I can only imagine there are people who have a feed set up for that category and watch it like a hawk. Now, in each case these were things of some (limited) value that I probably could have gotten some (piddly) money for if I'd been willing to go through the aggravation, but wow, is it ever worth it to just get this stuff gone, fast. And there's a nice sense of cleanness about giving stuff away, I find, not having to worry about whether I'm asking too much or too little, not getting all over-torqued about $20-30 one way or the other (and I know how lucky I am to be currently in enough financial comfort that $20-30 one way or the other is less important than personal convenience. That's a luxury, I know.)
So -- funky old file cabinet, beat-up ancient desk chair, beat-up ancient dining chairs, and the goddamned air conditioner that never worked right, all are gone and out of my life, YAY.
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Date: 2007-08-18 09:59 pm (UTC)