We have an L-sofa that we're getting rid of. We purchased it new for roughly $1,000, around 6-8 years ago. I'm about to put it up on the local craigslist site, but I'm kind of clueless if that's a good way to sell it, or if there are better avenues.

Also, what about price? It's in very good condition, no stains or tears. Here's a pic:

http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/sofa/SectionalSofa.jpg


Any thoughts on pricing, and the best way to sell it within a month or so? Thanks in advance!

--Ben

As long as there aren't any pics floating around out there of you doing splits across the two sections, you shouldn't have any problem selling it... :)

As for selling/pricing, craigslist is a good option. Since the couch is a few years old, you'd be hard pressed to get more than half the original price, so $400-500 would be a good range to start the pricing.

I'll buy it for $200 if you'll deliver it to NC :) .

Just lie and say you bought it yesterday.

I'll buy it for $200 if you'll deliver it to NC :) .

We got it from High Point, actually. It pays handsomely to have contacts there. ;)

rule of thumb is don't ever charge something that, for a little extra money, people could buy new. you obviously need to give people a reason why your used couch is a better bargain than a new couch.

i would start the price at $500, and i honestly i would probably be looking only for $400. if i started it at $500 i would tell an interested party "listen, if you really want it i'll knock $50 off the price and you can use the $50 in savings to rent a truck to pick it up". food for thought.

We sold a bunch of stuff on Craig's List when we moved and we got a ton of calls immediately. If you find a reasonable price to list the couch at, Craig's List should do the trick.

we sold our co-op on Craigslist. screw real estate agents!

Unfreakingbelievable.

http://charleston.craigslist.org/fur/358595685.html

After debating it, and keeping in mind that we got the couch for a really good deal, we agreed to $500. Then, when I put the ad up, at 1:36pm, on a whim I pushed the price up to $550. At 6:32pm, we received a phone call from someone interested. She got directions, and about 20 minutes ago, a late-model Volvo sedan pulls up, and three just-out-of-college kids (two girls, on guy) get out. She walks in, takes one look at it, says, "I love it!" They sit on it. He measures it. It will fit. She then plunks down $400 cash of Daddy's money as a deposit, and she'll be back next Saturday to pay the rest and pick it up and take it to her downtown Charleston pad. (Daddy's money again, no doubt.) They were here for all of 10 minutes.

I wonder how much we *could* have asked for. ;)

We found the info on the couch this afternoon. We paid $1,044 for it in early 2000. I'm pretty pleased to get over half of that back, nearly seven years later. :D

I heart Craigslist. I'd never used it before today.

Wow.

I hope I am in before you list it ---- sell it for 800. I am sure some sap college kid will buy it.

Terry B. once sold a sofa that knocked up two chicks six years after he last looked at it. Crosseyed.

I got nothing

I can't tell y'all how many times my wife and I have looked at each other and chuckled in the last 24 hours and said, "I can't believe we sold that couch that fast for $550!"

Terry B. once sold a sofa that knocked up two chicks six years after he last looked at it. Crosseyed.

I got nothing

Wow, a sofa that knocked up two chicks.... is that vidoe on youtube? ;)


SD, just make sure you flip the cushion to hide the pee stain... :)