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Ladies - I cleaned out my shoe closet & I am embarassed to admit some of the not so great shoes that I still had in there: examples, black velvet pumps, denim open toe mules, taupe pumps (not cute), off white pumps - you get the idea - probably about 10 pair. I had them in a box to go in a future garage sale, but my FIL, who makes quite a good living on selling goods on ebay, told me that i'm crazy, to bust them into groups & list them as a few lots. His theory is that some unfashionable lady in Indiana or some remote area may be looking for exactly that pair of off white pumps. Better to get $10 for the lot than $0.50 at the garage sale. What would you do?


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I would follow your FIL's advice.  I plan on doing the same thing myself.  It's not only unfashionable people that buy out of style used shoes, but people who re-sell the stuff in other countries (Africa) and the occasional weirdo who wants some used ladies shoes... I would list them to start at .99 - you have nothing to lose and all the closet space to gain! 

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I agree as well. I pretty much got that same advice when asking people about some of the stuff I recently listed. Everyone I asked just said: "Why not? You never know what some people will want."


Mind you, none of that stuff is selling, but oh well.   I have high hopes that I might make $5.



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You would be shocked to know what sells on Ebay.  I am constantly amazed at what I alone have been able to sell on there.  For instance, I went through a phase a few years ago where I was sweating a hell of a lot under my arms (just one summer; weird, I know).  I stained and ruined all my clothes from that season.  But I spent a lot of money ($100 for silk twinsets) on those clothes and at the time hated to see it go to the trash so I took a risk and listed some of the stuff on ebay. I took photos of the sweat stains and all.  To my amazement EVERY SINGLE THING sold.  Everything also went for above asking (I don't do $.99 auctions, I start the bidding at the mininum I will accept).  I have done this again recently - listing stuff with stains or whatever - and it is still selling, no problem. 


The point is LIST IT ALL EVEN THE STUFF YOU THINK IS GARBAGE.



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hotcocoa


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i agree with the other girls. list it all. i have sold so many things that i thought no one would want, but someone always ends up buying it on ebay for a lot more than you'd get at a garage sale.

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