Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Selling our furniture

Chrysla's is starting her very first day of her summer holidays. We did not do much today. But she went over to our neighbor nextdoor. The gals helped her to straighten her hair using the hair straightener. Haha! No much change though.

I'd put up our couch (with hide-a-bed), coffee table and the dining table up for sale in Craigslist. The responses were quite fast. So far, I had responses for all of them. Two of them requested for the furniture to be shipped to them through mover company, and they would pay via bank cashier check. However, I did not abide with them as there're a lot of scams involving faked money order, bank cashier check and so on. The Craigslist site actually advise all sellers to sell to locals only, meaning cash transaction with the buyers coming to your home for collection. They also advise all sellers not to disclose their social security number (quite similar to CPF) and bank account numbers. If not, the buyers are the ones who will be in financial problems.

The couch was sold at $125 but the buyer is a single mom with 3 kids. She will only be able to pay $60. We agree to it. However, till date, I still have not heard from her friend since her friend is the one who correspond with me. As for the coffee table, the heavy and sturdy "fellow" is sold for $40. Now, it should be having a relaxing time in its new owner's home.
The selling price for the dining table is $60 and someone will take a look at it tomorrow. She may or may not want it.

I think Craigslist is rather useful. There's craigslist for singapore too....maybe i should check it out and see if the furniture in sister's shop can be put in there.

1 comment:

PepperPell said...

i think the furnitures are selling too cheap!
the Dinning Rosewood table and chairs and the coffee table (teak) can fetch a very good price.
infact u can sell the dinning table plus chairs at a few hundreds and the coffee table can sell at around 200 in US$ i mean.
b'cos even in sin i can sell the coffee table around $480 and for the dinning and chairs can sell at $1200.(SIN $).
is a waste to sell so low.
not enough to cover the shipping cost at all.
Just only comments, don't feel bad anyway.
sis