Several years ago I bought a piece of equipment for about $13,000. I used the shit out of it and kept it in good condition but I dont see myself getting back into it. I’m expecting to get about $6000 for it but since it was delivered on a pallet, shipping it is out of the question.
Feels like a bad idea to accept a check/QuickPay/venmo/anything that can be canceled afterward so am I stuck with cash?
And are there better sites for this than Craigslist? I don’t have Facebook.
First don’t have typos in your sales ad. (Fix the typo in your post title.)
EBay may be the best option. Large sales are common there afaik.
I’d be more likely to follow the advice of that snark if you didn’t follow it up by suggesting I use the worst sales platform on the planet. Ebay fees are like 15-20% of the sale cost.
If what you are selling qualifies as:
Select Business & Industrial categories:
Heavy Equipment Parts & Attachments > Heavy Equipment Printing & Graphic Arts > Commercial Printing Presses Restaurant & Food Service > Food Trucks, Trailers & Carts
The fee is only 3%.
Alas, it is not. I wouldn’t do business with a company that charges ANY 15%+ fees on sales regardless.
Where are you seeing that percentage?
Those were from memory but it looks more like 13-15% plus the listing fees and anything else. Still a full grand off the sale so my position stands
It’s insane to me that people are defending eBay, has anyone sold anything there in the past few years?? I stopped using it after feeling completely ripped off with them taking $150 on a video card sale
I’m not a fan of ebay at all, used them once in the last decade. I’m just curious why you’re arguing about percentages without any screenshots. At this point it’s just heresay.
I mean, list it somewhere and see what bites you get. Bringatrailer, craigslist, etc. at least see if there is interest.
Because it’s irrelevant to the point that they’re a scummy company who takes an insane cut of the sale price?
But here you go. This is the category I’d be selling under.
Bruh I didn’t realize until after I got halfway through the body that you meant “sell” and not “steal.” I clicked on this hoping for some super wild Lemmy drama where some dumbass was publicly asking how to commit grand larceny.
Niche products usually have communities with buy/sell forums. Find one of those if you can.
Kijiji is a reasonable alternative to FB around here. Craigslist is not. Karrot may be an option, but it depends on where you are.
Contact a local makers group - they often have ties to all sorts of other groups.
You can trash eBay all you want, but 85% of a sale is more than 100% of an unsold item.
I think the first part of this is great advice. Find a related online community and post the listing on their boards.
Not only are you speaking directly to people who might be interested, but you can also have more of a back and forth before the sale to ensure that there are no misunderstandings.
I found a site for it but they don’t list their fees anywhere so I thought it was kind of shady. Maybe I should call up some local places and see if they know any good places, thanks for the tip
My problem with eBay is the return policy (as a seller). Depending on what you’re trying to sell you can get seriously screwed. Sell a $1,000+ laptop you sold being 100% honest, they have it for 28 days and their kid dumps a glass of milk on the keyboard and now it’s returned as “not as described”. So you’re out $1,000 and a broken laptop and maybe a negative review for doing nothing.
They need to make the return window like 5 days or something. If you don’t know it is 'as described" 5 days after receiving it then it’s yours. I get maybe 14 days for collector items, to get them verified or something. But yeah, electronics and such, no way.
Its usually less than 1000 to ship a pallet under 3000lbs from California to New York. Price it into what you are asking or offer to split the shipping.
You may be able to ship it, but not through the normal means.
My friend wanted to get a VERY large item across the country, and used a website to find a truck driver that was about to take a similar trip. I think it was about $50 to pick it up and drop it off on the way.
Also, I know apps like Venmo have buyer protection that will prevent the other person from cancelling the payment for no reason.
It can definitely be shipped (it arrived on a pallet) but packaging for transport is a headache I don’t want to deal with unless it’s my only option. The initial delivery cost $500 + $150 because they needed a truck with a lift
Yes, stick with cash for transactions with strangers.
I’m just wondering how people sell cars and whatnot, it can’t always be cash, can it? How are people safely selling things for 5 figures?
Cashiers check is perfectly safe
Cash is the only safe answer. Everything else can be reversed or manipulated. $6000 cash can fit in a letter envelope. I sold a car for $8000 and received cash.
If you can get the item back on a pallet, strapped down, it can likely be shipped for $400 or so by companies like Estes. They would need to be able to get a big truck with a liftgate near the item and roll a pallet jack on a smooth surfaxe like concrete. I would make the buyer arrange their own shipping though, let the liability be on them.
I don’t want to deal with the headache of shipping it so I was going to leave that as an option only if they specifically asked. It’s multiple pieces and I don’t have the original packaging
Private party sales of cars in the USA use cash, yes. A fairly safe way to do this for a car is to do the sale in the lobby of the seller’s bank or credit union. In specific detail, the buyer arrives and inspects the car to their satisfaction, they fill in most of the vehicle title transfer form but withhold the signature, then they go to the teller where the buyer produces the cash, the teller counts the funds and deposits it to the seller’s account, and finally the buyer and seller sign the title transfer.
In this way, the buyer’s risk is minimized (they’re meeting in a quasi public place with cameras, so gunpoint robbery would be unlikely) and the seller’s risk is minimized (they don’t even have to handle or count the cash, so a bad buyer can’t even rob them after the sale).
Not sure if this would be applicable to OP’s situation, but it might be adaptable if the seller’s bank is nearby and each party makes their own way to the bank to complete the sale, after inspecting the object.
Note: if instead of cash, the buyer pays with an official or cashier’s check, then this whole procedure is still valid because the seller doesn’t have to deal with the risk of a bad check: their bank has procedures to verify on-the-spot the funds on an official or cashier’s check issued by another institution. For a personal check though, such checks have a TOCTTOU problem, so sellers should not accept such checks for the sale.
Cash was how I bought my 5 figure car. 10k fits pretty well in an envelope. 6 will fit just fine.
Is there a shop near you that sells the same machine or services them? They might be willing to put it on consignment or buy it off you out right
I’m keeping it vague for privacy but it’s pretty niche, unfortunately. A makerspace or school would happily take it for free but I can’t justify the loss
I don’t know if it exists near you, but I use an app called Karrot which is a local used item marketplace. There is always Ebay as well, just make sure you list that it must be picked up locally.
Haven’t heard of it but it looks like it does. There are SO many of these apps, I have no idea what people are even really using!
This one is really nice. It makes you do periodic location checks, so it really cuts back on scammers and pro vendors. It also has an actually useful AI feature that estimates sale prices for items.
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New. I have the receipts with the manuals
