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Yes it does eliminate people showing up to your house and giving your address out to God-Knows-Who. But this service certainly doesn't eliminate the reposting p
by pappyo 12y ago
Yes it does eliminate people showing up to your house and giving your address out to God-Knows-Who. But this service certainly doesn't eliminate the reposting problem. You can only sell your stuff in a 90 minute window. In fact, using this service more cumbersome because you have to physically be where the merchandise is for the pickup. CL you can do at work and deal with the masses on your schedule. Plus, the truck problem isn't the sellers. Sure, YOU might not have a truck, but SOMEONE does.
My concern is, this product seems to be more valuable to the buyers than the sellers. Yet the buyers don't pay anything for the service.
- pyoung 12y ago"Yet the buyers don't pay anything for the service." Well, it is a bidding process. So if buyers believe there is enough added value in this service, they will overbid the 'CL price'. So if a couch would sell for $300 on craigslist, presumably it could sell for that plus whatever the value of having the item delivered, let's say $400. I think the bigger issue with this service, is that the cost of delivery of a large piece of furniture is relatively constant regardless of the value. So if I want to sell a $1000+ dollar couch, I have no incentive to use this service, it would make much more sense to sell it on craigslist and offer to cover the costs of a professional moving service instead ($500 vs $100-200). It seems to me that this service is most valuable for lower priced items. So if I can sell my crappy $100 couch hassle free, but only get $50 back, I would be pretty happy with that. However I doubt that would be profitable for the company.
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