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2 Clocks not working, from the locker, 1, I like the case, although the dial could use a repaint, which - in my mind, improves it - the possibilities are infinitely more than the sum of it's parts. The other, boring old mantle clock, chimes but doesn't run.
Get rid of them, both, and I list them both on Kijiji - and, within the hour I have 2 responses - one from Manitoba, clock repairman or hobbyist, he wants both. Great. Deal done.
The other, he starts by asking me about 1, then lowballs me with an offer $10.00 less..."Sorry, Sold" I reply. Funny when people try and lowball you on stuff, especially when it's only been listed an hour...and satisfying in the extreme to tell them "too late" or "sold".
Pack the clocks - a nightmare, their odd sizes mean I have to custom make a box. Think Homer Simpsons Spice rack, only with duct-tape and cardboard.
But it's done, in the mail, onto other things. Another responder on one of the clocks, I had told them their on hold, he counters with an offer of double what I was asking. Now I'm curious, I look up the clock online, sure enough, a Canadian Classic, but - no crying over spilt milk, just glad that it's gone, but it makes me pissed at the other one - the one that was lowballing me, nice try asshole...
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Sunday, a couple more pickers through, one, a younger couple that pick up a couple of cheap vintage cameras and a typewriter, and again help me out by taking some bones and crystals.
The other, a low rent picker, handsy, touches everything, asks prices of things that aren't for sale, fortunately he doesn't have much of an eye....
He notes the bronze bell - "From the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" I said in my ad, and he believed it...wants to trade for cheap reproduction sword, various junktiques in his car boot, I'm explaining, I'm downsizing, letting shit go, don't want more, want less, ...end up getting a couple of mint condition $2.00 Bills, $20, on items that I'd valued at around $60, but really, they're low-end and so - as much to get rid of him as to get rid of junk, I make the deal and send him off.
Most of the people, they've been likable, relateable, him, not-so, and finally he's gone and I can get back to whatever it was I was doing. The $2.00 bills will end up in some Barista's jar as a tip.
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Candlesticks, taking a big hit and nobody's swinging...wrong product, wrong town...
This is beautiful, I mean, German, Arts and Crafts, see another one for sale here: https://www.decorativecollective.com/dealers/antiques-and-decorative/p/goberg-candle-holder-aad012
I've easily got a dozen boxes full of antique candlesticks and I don't think I want to let them go at Calgary prices. I might have to set up some sort of online shop for the higher end items...
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Dive Depth Meter and Watch. I'm selling them because:
A) I don't dive and I'm generally above sea level and so it's not too exciting
B) I can't figure out the watch. It only shows me "N-S-E-W" like some sort of cryptic Magic 8 Ball and spins around every time I move.
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I mean, at the end of the day, Craigslist is filled with perverts...
My ad, after a month, is still on page one.
I'm going to sell my Banana Pump without the perverts. There's clearly not enough of them.
So I go to Kijiji.
And, most of my visits are via people checking "See other items for sale from this user...", so the banana-pump views, they're climbing...
And it keeps me posting ads, different ads in all categories, because a surprising amount of sales come from people browsing your other ads.
So I gotta get a lot more ads out there. Drive a lot more visits. But - so far, Kijiji V Craigslist, Kijiji is winning.