Cleaning out my mom’s house. I hate to trash things that may be useful to someone else and some of it’s probably worth some $$. I’ve used Facebook marketplace a couple of times. I’ve heard of OfferUp and LetGo but haven’t used them. Where will i get the best response and $? Should i just pile it all up and do an online estate sale instead? TIA. Also, if anyone has done this and has any general tips, please share.

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    5 months ago

    By the way, offer up and letgo have combined now. If you want to ditch stuff quick, do a yard sale and offer dirt cheap prices. If you want to maximize profit, eBay (but that’s a loooot of work, my work does that and it’s half my workload).

    If you want an in-between, you can go on fb marketplace and offer up. There are tons of annoying bots though.

    Some towns have their own local community platform/forum for you to post through.

    Ultimately though, a lot of stuff will probably be trashed. Even if something has a good shelf price, actually selling it is pretty hard. At work, something has to sell for greater than 20-40$ to break even on storing it, tracking it, packing it and shipping it.

    You can also donate much of it to thrift stores.

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      5 months ago

      Thank you. I wondered about offer up and let go - the website of one kept sending me to the other. I’ve donated and trashed quite a bit but there’s still so much more - lots of funny collectible items. I’ll check to see if there’s a local sale page. I’m not sure i have the energy for a yard sale. There is a company here that does online estate sales - people bid online and then there’s just one day for pickup. I haven’t researched it yet to see what percentage they take.