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by avidphantasm 797 days ago
As much as I dislike Meta, Facebook Marketplace is basically this. My town also has a “swap shop”, which makes it really easy to give away still-useful things.
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Post mentions the downside of this: you have to deal with _people_. I don’t necessarily feel comfortable with strangers coming to my house, and don’t really have time or energy to coordinate meeting people. I see value in this idea over marketplace.
Look up a consignment shop in your area, take your stuff to them, they'll handle it and give you like 30-50% of what they sell it for, done.
Came to say the same. I often sell things within hours despite living almost in the middle of nowhere. People are glad to drive over an hour for all sorts of things and most are comfortable with digital payments.