Sell Stuff For Cash

Do you need some money? You can sell stuff for cash. Learn the various strategies and benefits of selling stuff for cash right on this page. This is related to many other pages on this site that explain how to get free stuff and free money.

Selling stuff can be a great way to de-clutter your living space, reduce the original price that you pay for a particular item, and receive cash. This can help your budget and personal finances, which is one of the reasons this information is presented. AF.c is here to help people spend less and selling used items to pay for other expenses is one way to spend less. But there’s more to it than that.

When You Sell Stuff For Cash Is The Money Actually Free?

Arguably, if you paid for the item in the first place, then this cash is not actually free; it’s just a reduction of the original price.

If you could buy the item, use it and then sell it for the same price as you bought it, then you were able to use it for free. It was ultimately free for as long as you had it.

There are multiple ways to get free stuff and then profit by selling it. Since you got the items for free, the cash you get for selling the items is free money.

Here is a brief review of some of the ways to get free stuff:

You can get items for free or nearly free after rebate. These items are brand new. You simply have to disclose that the packaging is damaged since the bar code was removed to claim the rebate.

You can get multiple brand new items for free on Black Friday. If you can’t use the products that are free or give them away as appropriate Christmas gifts, then sell them for cash that you can use to buy any gifts you want.

You can offer marketing services or participate in market research for free stuff. See Blogging For Free Stuff and Product Testing. You might receive a product to review but then decide not to keep it. You can sell these items to avoid clutter.

Free items are given away on Craigslist and Freecycle. You can turn around and resell these items on Craigslist or other platforms.

You can trade and barter for freebies in a process called Arbitrage. A simple form of arbitrage is the game “bigger or better” which usually starts with a paperclip. A paperclip is about 5 cents, which is not actually free but close enough. See also eBay Lot Freebies.

You can dumpster dive or go curb shopping for free stuff. This is also called urban foraging. People actually throw away good stuff because value is relative. Yet, even garbage can have value. You can get paid for recycling, car batteries, unused blood glucose strips, scrap metal and a variety of other things that people throw away. More on that below. You can also find coupons and rewards codes by dumpster diving, which can lead to getting more free stuff.

If you’re very resourceful (very resourceful) you can get brand new items from retail leftovers. A more likely method of getting free stuff is by looking for Yard Sale leftovers. It would help to have a truck.

For other articles, see Free Stuff.

(Language advisory: he says “cr@p” in the video)

How To Sell Stuff For Cash

There are multiple ways to sell stuff online and offline. Here are a few ways to do that:

• Your own ecommerce web store
• Ebay
• Craigslist
• Etsy
• Amazon
• Yard Sale
• Swap Meets
• Pawn Shops
• Consignment Shops
• Trade & Barter

Obviously each market audience will have different expectations. It might be normal to sell used items with craigslist and swap meets. Amazon users might expect new items. Some audiences will go price shopping more than others. Pawn shops will only pay you rock bottom prices. If the item is large or costly to ship somewhere, then you’d use Craigslist instead of Amazon or eBay. So part of the art of selling stuff for cash is to know your options and what you can get out of each market. Consignment shops are like thrift stores, but you’re not donating the items to them. They’re selling your stuff to share a split of the “profit”.

Beyond the general resources listed above, there are also very specific niche markets. For example, recycling centers will take metals and plastics. You might find resources for unused blood glucose strips, human or animal hair, broken vehicles and scrap metal, gold, used clothing, old cell phones, refrigerators, textbooks, and variety of other items.

For a full list niche markets see the Cash For Stuff Directory.

At the very least, if you don’t feel like you can sell an item, then you can at least donate it to a non-profit for a tax-deduction. Thrift stores accept common household items. There are also specific places that accept donations like scrapped vehicles.