I love scrapping. I love it. It is my blood. But sometimes loading all that broken junk into your truck just isn't the best way to go. Sometimes you need to refrain and set your scrapping urge aside.
People love to buy broken things. Broken Lawnmowers, broken TVs, broken anything.
As a scrap man, isn't it my duty to see the forest from the trees. To figure out what to sell and what to keep.
If you start that debate over weather or not you should sell your scrap as broken on craigslist or not, just ask yourself these simple questions: Do you want to risk it? Do you want to risk becoming a junk yard?
The difference between scrapping and selling on craigslist is time. It can take sometimes weeks to sell something on craigslist, and if you are willing to do it, great. But there is something about letting my space get filled to the brim with scrap, slowly drowning myself in large amounts of junk, that just is unsettling. I think most of you can agree with that.
When I find something I think is useful beyond scrap, I always have the urge to try to sell it. I managed to stockpile several lawnmowers and other parts, and I had the intention to put them on craigslist.
ReplyDeleteI made my first attempt by trying to sell a suspension seat for a mower. The thing probably weighed 50 lbs, so it would have brought four bucks or so in scrap. I ended up selling it for ten, but not before I had to send about 5 email to the buyer, talk to him on the phone a couple times, and haul the thing around in my truck for nearly a week before he finally met me somewhere to pick it up.
I decided right then and there that there was easier ways to earn six bucks. I loaded the other suspension seat on the trailer, along with all those mowers and hauled them to the shredder last week.