Selling Stuff

 Have you used a website like Craigslist or EBay to buy or sell something? What was the experience like? Would you use such a service again? If you haven’t, detail how you have sold or bought something outside the environment of a retailer.

I have gone on both Craigslist and EBay looking to buy something but have yet to actually purchase something through these websites. A couple years ago I sold my guitar that I didn’t need any more through a trader newspaper. I put an ad in the newspaper, which was free, and it ran in there for three weeks. Someone called in response to the ad and my dad talked to them and had them come to our house to look at the guitar. We eventually negotiated a price and the customer bought my guitar. I don’t know if I would use this method again but I did like the fact that the person could see the item in person and not just on a screen, or at least I would like to be able to do that. I have used Craigslist to look up stuff online to possibly buy and I like the fact that you can contact the person not just through the website and that many of the sellers have the option of meeting them to look at the product in person. But again, I think websites like EBay are good as well because you don’t have to go out of your way to go to another person’s house but rather you do everything online and from what I hear they have a pretty good guarantee policy that the products sold through this website are legitimate and not scams or anything. It’s nice to actually see and hold what you are going to buy in person but then again it’s also nice to just order something online without having any other hassles of going somewhere or dealing with other people in person, etc.