A couple years ago, we outgrew our copier. It didn’t break… it worked fine. We just outgrew it. I couldn’t convince any of our employees to take it. None of our neighbors on the floor wanted it. It was too big to put in the dumpster, and, besides, it worked fine.

I asked an assistant to call some junk removal companies. $100 was the best quote she received.  Three days later, we paid $100 to have a perfectly good copier removed from our office. The whole concept bothered me.

So here I am a few years later thinking about how to make the best use of our online bidding platform. We built this system to allow absentee online bidding on our real estate inventory, but the reality is it can be used to sell just about anything. We’ve enjoyed watching it expand from real estate into related goods and services and more.

Just last week I had 2 sit downs with owners of real estate which we’ve since signed up for auction. Both of them had baby grand pianos in the house; and neither of them had a clue what they were going to do with the piano. “It’s a fixture. It stays with the house,” said one. “I don’t care what happens to this thing,” said the other.

Let’s say your prospective buyer doesn’t want a piano in his new family room. Are you prepared to spend the money to move it? Remember what it cost me to have an old copier removed? Thinking about pushing it outside on trash day? Good luck!  Or perhaps you’ll just plan to advertise it for a “quick” sale? I have a better idea….

Just Take It Away.  Post your large, heavy, unwanted yet (perhaps) valuable items in the Pick-Up Only section of our site, where retrieval/removal of the item is always the responsibility of the buyer. Save some money, make some money, feel good and be done with it!

–Tom Gimer, Principal, x111