I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…

The high highs and low lows of craigslisting

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a quick little nothing ad on craigslist to sell my daughter’s outgrown clothes.  Literally, all it said was “I have TONS of great condition mostly name brand 0-9 month baby girl and gender neutral clothes at yard sale prices.  Email if you want to see them.”  Well, that ad has so far been my biggest moneymaker.  I had two people come see them, and one of those people spent over $60 on clothes, and the other person spent another $8.  So it has been good for 15 seconds worth of typing.

Today I got another inquiry (yes, I still have a ton left… my daughter is very loved by family and friends in the clothes department) who wanted to know if I would sell all of them in a lot.  I said $50 for everything, and that is where it got interesting.  Or annoying.  You take your pick.

I tried several times to convince the woman to just come see the clothes and pick what she wanted, but she just kept emailing more and more specific questions about brands and sizes and ugh, it was so not worth it to me.  But it was worth it, too.  It is a sale and I can’t resist a sale.  So I got out all the clothes and went through them and took notes and sent her a basic summary of what I have.  At least I can reuse the summary to write a new craigslist ad if this sale doesn’t happen.  Heh.  Always a silver lining.

So after going through all the clothes, sending a semi-detailed list, and a few more conversations about things in general (including a picture of the preemie grandbaby she’s buying the clothes for… very cute) she claims she’ll come see everything sometime this week and she’ll let me know tomorrow when would be good for her.

I’ll believe it when it happens.  I’ve had too many sales almost happen and fall through.  But it would be nice.  Oh so nice.  I’m trying to not daydream about it too much.

And I had an inquiry about a pair of my son’s outgrown shoes so maybe that’ll pan out.  I relisted all the shoes on Sunday at a reduced price hoping to get some interest.  If not there is always ebay… must conquer the ebay phobia I have.  Must.  I’ll get right on that.

The woman who wanted the Bath and Body works stuff totally flaked on me so back to the drawing board on that stuff.  I hate when I get so so close to a sale and then for no reason I can see it just falls through.  Bah.  And I still need to find 4 more new things to list this month to meet my goal.  And I should relist a few other things that have been up a while with no action.  There’s always something.

~J