Smartselling

'This listing is getting a lot of activity'

Wickerman basket for sale (bees not included)

Here's an excellent example of how to attract interest in your listing on Facebook Markeplace or eBay or indeed Craigs List.

One of my friends in California buys and sells vintage wares and antiques. She often comes across bizarre listings (after all, it is Facebook and it is California). Well, this listing certainly caught the eye...and is rather clever.
I will add some more classics here when I have collated them all...watch this space.

Eames Chair for Sale

Divorce causes sale
It all started with the purses, She would come home with some new Prada bag. Maybe it was Burberry, Coach or Louis Vuitton. It was certainly not Dooney and Bourke, she thought those to be tacky.

I asked her, why did you need a new purse. Was it a collectible item? Would it gain in value over time? Did it hold more-or-less than the 50 other purses you own? Is there more room for the shit-ton of Sephora products you have spilling out of your purses, not to mention the bathroom?

That is when she started on me with the chairs.

I explained, "these chairs are prime examples of 20th century design, and that many of my chairs are a part of the permanent exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Never seen a purse exhibit there." She bellowed, "nobody gives a crap when they sit down whether its a Starck chair from the Driade or Kartell era."

Then she called me a "chairfag."

That is when our "marriage” counseling really became "divorce" counseling.

Two years ago I bought 2 chairs and an ottoman from DWR (design within reach) for $4,679.00 for each chair.

They were placed facing each other so we could read our periodicals while playing footsie with furtive glances.

I read Dwell, Architectural Digest, the newest catalogs from Wright20 and DWR.

She read Cosmopolitan ("New Ways to Please Your Man" - forget pleasing, how about no more purses -), Lucky (really...a magazine about shopping???) Good Housekeeping (shocking, since she never cleaned) and I'm sure if there was a purse magazine, she read those too.

Now, only $2,500. This for her chair. Walnut and "tobacco" leather. No scratches, no pets and never even "vaped" in. It does not include the ottoman, which I am keeping. With the money you are saving, you can buy your own ottoman. In seattle, I will deliver for free as well as help carry it in.

Same for Tacoma.

PS, there are a lot of fakes out there. This has the proper Herman Miller medallion and I am happy to meet you at a DWR so they can confim it is authentic.

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