Clean Out Your House With These 5 Fun Alternatives To Craigslist
Maybe you have too much stuff, or maybe it’s just that the stuff you do have isn’t working for you anymore. No matter what your reason to start cleaning out your home, you want to do it the right way.
While in years past this might have meant going to Craigslist and listing all of your items, today there are many more options out there that cater to sellers who are looking to sell a specific type of item, or those who want the added safety and security of knowing who they are dealing with. Here are 5 great options that make selling your extra ‘stuff’ online even easier and more enjoyable.
The interesting thing about 5Miles is that it was grown out of the CEO’s own negative experience with websites like Craigslist. 5Miles takes many of the common complaints about selling online today and does away with them. They offer verification for both buyers are sellers, which makes the entire process much more transparent from both sides.
On top of this transparent approach, they eliminate the standard list of links that Craigslist is so well known for and instead opt for a more image-heavy list of items. This makes it much easier to see exactly what it is you’re buying without clicking on the listing itself.
If you’re looking to buy or sell anything online today, especially if you want to eliminate the hassle of shipping your item to a faraway place, then 5Miles should be your first stop.
While 5Miles took a service that was already available online and made it much better, Pawngo takes a primarily offline service and brings it online for the very first time. Their goal is to allow you to get quick cash in exchange for something that you already own (the traditional pawn shop model), but give you plenty of ways to easily pay back what you owe over a longer time period from 6-24 months.
If you are trying to sell things online primarily to make money fast, Pawngo offers a much better way to do it. When you sell something to them, you will get an immediate quote, and once you agree to the terms and ship your item in to them, they will give you an easy way to repay the loan over your desired timeframe to get your collateral back. You can even have the money withdrawn from your account every month as you pay down the loan, a much better option than the 30 day window that most pawn shops give you.
Poshmark is one of a few different services that is designed around selling high end designer clothes online. Selling designer clothes online has long been a major hassle, especially when most websites like eBay and Craigslist have just as many knockoffs as real items, making it extremely difficult to actually know whether you are buying the real deal or a cleverly disguised fake.
When you sell through Poshmark however, buyers know that they are protected from knockoffs, because if something doesn’t come as described for any reason, if you notify Poshmark within 3 days of receiving it, they’ll refund you your money back. When selling online through Poshmark, they try and make it as simple as possible. After a sale is made, Poshmark will send you a pre-paid, pre-addressed box for your item, all you need to do is drop it off at a USPS mailbox, or have the mailperson pick it up for you, on their daily routes.
If you have brand name clothing and need a place that has an audience that loves the higher end things and is willing to pay for luxury. Then Poshmark is the place you’re looking for.
Sometimes you just want to declutter your home fast, and if that clutter is at all made up of electronics, phones and accessories, then head on over to Gone to get rid of it quick. Gone takes the hassle of posting and listing items out of your hands. After you sign up with Gone, almost anything that you want to sell, you can request a pre-paid and pre-addressed box for, which will then be shipped back to Gone, via UPS,, where they’ll do all the listing, descriptions, photo taking and more for various sites (like eBay, Amazon, etc) for you. However, while Gone does take these items off your hands right away, you don’t receive payment until they sell them for you. So while it is a great way to clean house quickly it isn’t always the fastest way to get money from your clutter.
If you are interested in great design, then you probably spend plenty of time searching through flea markets on the weekend, or on Craigslist during the week, but now you have another option – Chairish.
Their service is built for any design lover looking to buy or sell unique and vintage furniture, decor, accessories, jewelry and more online, to fellow design centric enthusiasts, like yourself. Chairish is a well designed, image focused website and app that are a step above what’s traditionally found on online classified sites like Craigslist. They add an additional filter by setting a minimum list price of $75, so you you can be sure that your listings will be in good company when they appear on the site.
When you’re ready clean out your home of all the household items that have been piling up, and want make a lot more money than you would a yard sale. But you don’t want to deal with the sketchiness of Craigslist or the hassle of eBay, give these fun and easy services a try.
