[advael]

I'm currently trying to help a relative who's a hoarder, and I have to say, reducing the friction of getting rid of things without just mass-dumpstering them would be a godsend

I think this is one of those ideas that needs scale to work well, like craigslist or ebay pretty much got rid of all the friction you can without propping up a fulfillment network and appraisers etc., but if anyone's got a good way to make it participatory/crowdsourced or is willing to hire some workforce to get it started, I'd be happy to help with implementation or strategy. I'm not good at the marketing bit but not unwilling to try

[blowski]

In the UK at least there are house clearance companies who do exactly this, typically after a death. They first look over the entire contents of the house, then buy it from you and either sell it on or dispose of it.

[RetroTechie]

> and I have to say, reducing the friction of getting rid of things without just mass-dumpstering them would be a godsend

Yeah, that's a big problem with modern consumerism: with money to spend, buying stuff is too easy compared to the effort to part with it later.

Although if you 'have' to move fast, there's companies that specialize in house clearing (as another poster noted). Some thrift stores also do this, provided the resale <-> trash ratio is acceptable to them.

[advael]

Right, the missing niche is the fast piecemeal service AFAICT. Not "look through all my stuff and try to sell it" but "take maybe as little as one item I want to sell, today, seamlessly, and appraise and sell it"