They finally show up to try on the jacket, and decide that–while they OMG LUV IT!!!–it is simply too tight in the shoulders and they have to pass. Maybe they are under some kind of jacketless distress that can only be relieved by this purchase? So you wait. Another 5 minutes.įinally, the day of pickup arrives! And you wait… and wait… and finally get a text like, “OMG! 😨 😨😨Totally forgot abt pickup today!! 😢😢 So sorry!!! 😣 OK to swing by in 1 hour? Pleez? 🥺🙏🥺” You’re annoyed, but all the excess punctuation and sad emoji faces in this message make you feel bad for this person. You arrange pickup, trying to finagle your busy schedule with the busy schedule of your potential buyer. Then you respond to several folks who are interested, including those who are NIL (“next in line,” for those of you not in the Buy/Sell/Trade know). You take an attractive, well-lighted picture of it, write a description, and post it online, which takes about 10 minutes. Let’s imagine you are selling a jacket for $5.
Almost always, the cost of your time spent selling outweighs the cost of the item itself. Why? Because … Selling things is a waste of your time. After posting and reposting on Buy/Sell/Trade groups and arranging pickups that never happened, my client had had enough. Why? Because every item on this couch was something she had been trying to sell… for months. Normally, a transformation like took several hours, as the client and I made hard decisions about each item.
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