Make quick cash off your castoffs
March 26, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under odds and ends
If you’re looking to make some quick cash, you can go though all your stuff, find the stuff you never use, and sell it. You could technically hold a garage sale, but that’s a whole other huge event. I mean, you just sorted your closets, save the garage sale for warmer days and try the following places for selling your gear…
Consignment shops: The key to making quick cash at a consignment store is to ask them how they pay. There are plenty of consignment shops, but not all pay right away, and not all pay in cash. Possible scenarios include …read more
Ebay and Craigslist Scammers
July 30, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under financial matters
If you sell anything online, then you need to be aware that you may be contacted by scammers. They will claim to have interest in your product and they may even offer to send you a cashier’s check for a large sum above what you are asking. They’ll say the extra amount is for your troubles, the shipping to another country, or some might even ask you to cash the check and send them the excess. AS IF!!!!
Unfortunately, many have fallen for these schemes and lost large sums of money. Here is an example of a scammer email. Actually, this is …read more
Frugal Friday 17: Using Free Classifieds
August 3, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under frugal friday
We all have things in our house that we need to get rid of. Instead of having a yard sale and underpricing your stuff, or paying to sell it on Ebay, try placing a free online classified ad.
Craigslist has become a very popular classified website. Several years ago Ebay bought 25% of Craigslist. For a while, they didn’t do anything with it and just let it sit there as an investment. But now, Ebay is going into competition with a company they partially own by launching Kijiji.com.
Now we have two free online sources for selling things. Looks like the two companies will …read more
