Train Thoughts

I love craigslist, but we have had to relist items a few times because we thought we had something sold, but it fell through.

When we were moving houses, my wife listed our dining room table, chairs, and our drier in separate listings.  We quickly had a few emails and someone said they would come Saturday morning to pick up the dining room table and chairs.  The emails kept coming, but my wife started telling people that it was sold.  Saturday morning came and the people didn’t show up.  We had to relist.  Ugh.  The same thing happened with the drier, but we weren’t able to get the drier sold by the time we moved, so we moved it.

So, our drier has been sitting in our new garage.  This weekend I got motivated to be able to fit both cars in the garage.  To make this happen, we needed to get rid of the drier.  My wife listed it on cl again and emails started coming in, but this time I told her to tell people that the first person to show up gets it and we would email them back if it was sold before they showed up.  My wife didn’t want to deal with people, so she listed my cell phone.  I got two calls quickly.  One person wanted to come the next day and the other person mid week.  I told them, we had listed items on CL before and people didn’t show up, so we were going to sell it to the first person that came and wanted it.  The person who planned to come Monday, came in 30 minutes!  The drier is gone.  If you want to move something quickly, I think it’s key not to hold it for someone to show up - Sell to the first person that shows up.