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Old 04-12-2024, 07:44 PM
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If you use Facebook Marketplace make SURE you stick with a "cash and carry only" policy. If they offer to send you money, ignore them, just don't even respond to them at all. If they ask you something in Spanish - ignore them, don't respond (unless you post your ad in Spanish, of course).

An auction house would give you pennies on the dollar, significantly less than what you'd get if you had a tag sale. The only time I'd consider an auction house is if someone died, and I took the few things I actually wanted to keep for myself, and just wanted to get rid of everything else. Let an auction house handle it, if I'm lucky I'll get a couple hundred bucks out of the deal and they can make a few thousand.