Local Pickup Only = Too Lazy To Ship

[stewartit-sales]

You people do realize that you're really cutting your options doing this and your stuff will sit out there for a long time while the item decreases in value.....

Amirite?

[anthology-of-treasures]

And move it up a flight of stairs!

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@fern*wood wrote:

You people...

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He should have said y'all, it's much more friendly.

Bless his heart

But sort of in the OP's defense, I have come across a very very few sellers who did list everything LPO - individual books, glassware, clothing, etc.  If that's what they want to do and use Ebay like the local trading paper, it's their business. I'm sure they realize they won't get nearly the sales that shipping items would. Maybe they just don't want to ship, period. That's their prerogative and not one for a buyer to complain about.

[rustydalmatian]

I actually sold and shipped a grand piano once.  Boy, were those hacksaw blades expensive.

[buyselljack2016]

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@candiesduds wrote:
Some sellers list for local pick-up as the items are too much hassle to ship as many others have already pointed out, and some list items for local pick-up to prevent scammers from outright stealing their items had they been shipped and then losing both money and item because Ebay will most certainly facilitate the fraud.

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agree.  1 good reason for not shipping

[soh.maryl]

Love your post! 

Did you ship it just to prove you weren't a lazy seller?

Or just to prove you know your way around a hacksaw? (Which would look good on anyone's resume.) 

[soh.maryl]

Anyone notice the OP has not returned here? And we were having such fun!

[echo_and_zip]

Local Pickup SAVES a BUYER money... PACKING is WORK... Work adds to the cost.

[soh.maryl]

As you've stated, not only is packing work, but there are cases where packing is IMPOSSIBLE.

[buyselljack2016]

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

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@fern*wood wrote:

You people...

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He should have said y'all, it's much more friendly.

Bless his heart

But sort of in the OP's defense, I have come across a very very few sellers who did list everything LPO - individual books, glassware, clothing, etc.  If that's what they want to do and use Ebay like the local trading paper, it's their business. I'm sure they realize they won't get nearly the sales that shipping items would. Maybe they just don't want to ship, period. That's their prerogative and not one for a buyer to complain about.

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This ^^^^^^^^^     Some just do not know how to ship, or want to ship.  Sometimes packing things just isn't worth the effort.

If someone is in a more urban area local pick-up may be a doable thing.  For me, out in the sticks, it isn't like it would be right on the way for many buyers to pick up something. 

I presently have a "free" table set up out near the road, with bulky items, and some low value items. Some could be sold, but such a bother.  Passers by have already snagged 5 bowling balls, a chair, my rusted tailgate, some fishing tackle, a bait box, small portable tv/AM/FM radio, used AA batteries, a book, 6-8 bottles of O.P.I. nail polish, 5 new shirts (4 T's, and a short sleeve dress shirt) 2 small American flags, asper cream, a camper leveling jack, 2 digital travel alarm clocks, ornamental bed post toppers, beer pitcher from the 1960's, advertising shot glass from a now closed, local restaurant, other small, less than perfect crystal stemware, pitted pot metal hood trim from a 1948 Dodge, flashlights, firewood, stuffed animals, candles, plastic tissue box cover, coffee carafe.  They won't take the big analog TV  Town "dumpster day" is approaching, but just seems like a shame to send these things to the landfill.

[mg152]

You people? Do you have any idea what it costs to ship larger items? I’m going to be sticking to smaller lighter items because postage is prohibitive on large heavy items.

[mg152]

I put my big heavy items by the road too. Unbelievably we don’t have the trash trucks with the arms here so our trash pickup is limited to 50 lbs.

[buyselljack2016]

Garbage/recycling here is a private contractor, paid pick-up service.  At one time it was a pay-as-you-go deal where you would prepay by purchasing coded bags from the contractor. Now I think it is a pay by the month, with possibly a weekly limit of how many bags you can put out. Pick up day/time is hit-and-miss, and the birds, and small animals make a mess of it. Have never partaken of the service.

I haul my own garbage/recyclables to the transfer station about once a month when making a trip in that direction.    Much food stuffs goes back to nature rather than to the landfill.  They have bins at the transfer station for the garbage, recycles, used batteries, propane tanks, electronics, scrap metal, bulk plastics. Only have to pay for the garbage.

Town does 1 "dumpster day" a year for free. That's when the bulky stuff goes. Used tires, furniture, bags of clothes, appliances. I think they stopped taking construction debris.

No garbage, no recyclables. Limited to, I think, 2 pick-up truck size loads. Have not taken anything in 3-4 years.  Weight limited to whatever my hernia will withstand to load.  Do not have to unload. They have people to do that so it get sorted the way they want it.

Gets abused. Local carpet place hauls in loads of used carpet. The business is not located in the township, but the owner has other property within the township, so gets to register. 

When they first started it was 2 times during the year, and people were showing up from many nearby towns to cash in on the free no-limits disposal. The next year pre-registration was required with proof of residency.

[stumblebumble]

That is really funny. You should check Craig's list to see if any of your items appear there. You may find one of them and want to buy it back. Maybe some will even make it to eBay. Too funny.

[hunterboo3dprinting]

I am thinking you found something you wanted to buy and the seller would not ship it to you.

[joesoucie22012]

I am going to sell my mobile home and ship it Media Mail because I'm not lazy......