Try to avoid HEAVY items

First, a big shout-out to all our Canadian Veterans today past and present... thanks for making this country and planet the way it is today.

So the next "lesson" is... try to avoid buying really heavy and hard-to-move items.  This will

1. make it hard for YOU to retrieve the item 
2. make it hard for your buyer to get it from you

I suppose if I was doing this professionally - I would have a pickup truck and offer delivery service.. but, I'm not and.. I don't.

Anyway - this very wealthy gentleman was selling his EQ3 dining table (imagine, condo overlooking the Rideau canal wealthy... okay, so if you're not from Ottawa - here is the view that this guy was waking up to in the morning)

He was originally asking $40 for his modern dining table (retails for $499) because it had a bubble in the wood on one of the legs.  Honestly, this guy was just thinking about turfing it into the garbage.. insane.

So, I took advantage of the situation - offered him $30 to pick it up within the hour and he said.... YES.

Poor Geordie went to go pick this up.. the ordeal lasted about 2 hours total.. trying to get this HUGE heavy piece of furniture from his condo, down the stairs, in and on top of our van and back home.

I would totally have kept this table - it was gorgeous - except it didn't fit in the space where I'd hoped to use it.  I didn't realize how MASSIVE 42 inches was? (no jokes please) :)  Anyway, I listed it up for $180 and had multiple buyers right away..  Now, here is where the lesson comes in.. the hardest part of this sale was not the marketing or finding the buyer - it was the moving of the item, in/out of the house AND finding someone with a truck to pick it up.  It took a couple of days to figure out the logistics with the buyer - they had a friend who had a truck, yadda yadda..  Anyway - finally - happy ending, they picked up the table, were thrilled with it..  Enjoy!

Summary


Purchased: $30
Modifications: $0
Sold: $180

Profit: $150