How do you sell a reef tank?

[owenz]

http://www.craigslist.org

Free, easy to post, and targetted to your region.

 

[magicman76]

Ebay does prohibit it and if you get caught you may be kicked off of Ebay.
But Pitpat is right, they have options to end the auction for several different reasons and....they wont catch you :lol:

Here is a little something from Ebay... http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe ... -sale.html

Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay


eBay prohibits email offers to buy or sell listed items outside of the eBay Web site. Offers of this nature circumvent eBay's fee structure and are a potential fraud risk for both buyers and sellers.

Some examples of outside of eBay offers include:

Using information obtained through eBay to offer to buy or sell a listed item outside of eBay.
Canceling a listing to sell to a buyer who became aware of the item through eBay.
Ending a listing early to sell the item at a higher price to the winning bidder.
Offering to sell an item to a bidder in a Reserve Not Met listing.
Offering to sell duplicate or additional merchandise to underbidders.
It is acceptable for sellers to end a listing early in order to sell an item at the current bid price to the high bidder. Bidders are permitted to contact sellers with requests to end a listing early; however, sellers are under no obligation to do so.

Although outside of eBay offers are not permitted, sellers may be able to sell items to underbidders by sending a Second Chance Offer.

I understand that to mean that if you andvertise the item like in your local paper (or in otherwords anywere else) and recive a higher offer from the other listing that you can cansel your e-bay auction.. and I dont see how they could know (or even expect you to know) if your local buyer saw your e-bay aution for the item.. so.. the only way I could see this could be a problem is it is a risk for the buyer to send such an offer though e-bay's messaging system because they can be reported by a seller for making such an offer and subsiquintly get kicked off e-bay.. (I would worry more about being the buyer in that situation... in fact I wouldn't personaly make such an offer to a seller)

 

[Anonymous]

When I down sized from 3 tanks to 1 tank, I listed the other two here at RDO and also at Reef Central. I sold both tanks and occupants within 3 days. No shipping- local pick up.

 

[Anonymous]

I sold my 110 here and at reefcentral. I think it took a week or so to sell every thing. Tank was locak pick up. Some of the other stuff I shipped.

 

[magicman76]

LOL.. there might be 20 people within 100 miles of me that would be intrested in a frag much less a reef tank.. I would suspect local pickup sales would depend on were you live.. JMHO though.