It’s amazing how people actually want to buy your old used stuffs. It’s even amazing that people actually want to buy useless stuffs such as a haunted box, a typhoon being caught in a bottle, a bat mobil (car), their own grandmas and many other useless items (or person – considering that grandma bit lol) But believe me, I’ve seen those item listings before for real on eBay!
Some even wanted to sell their soul to the devil! My goodness, how mad the world has become!
I always wanted to sell my second hand items, but having to pay eBay fees for listings, for the purchase, having to send the items, warranty, etc turned me off. Wish I can just sell it for any price and forget about it.
So while browsing some interesting opportunities on SocialSpark.com, I saw a service (or a store actually) called “iSOLD It” and decited to put up some words about it.
“iSOLD It” is an actual store (or stores, as they are quite a lot of them in U.S, Australia, and Canada). It works like this:
- You saw an item that you want to throw or sell away in your house.
- You bring it to one of “iSold It” shops nearest to you.
- They will work with you for a while about some points that you want to mention on your item listing on eBay.
- That’s it! They’ll do the photographing of your item, putting it on auction, packaging your item on a sale, and deliver the item!
- They don’t charge you for listing your item, but once the item is sold, they’ll take some commissions out of it (which is fair enough to me)
That’s really it. They will then send you the check or if you want to, donate it to a charity.
There’s nothing to lose, really. Rather than having useless items piling up in my house, I’d rather sell it away, even for some dollars. Don’t really care if they take a commission out of it as practically you are not doing anything besides bringing the item to the “iSOLD It” shop.
You’ll be surprised how many stuffs I want to sell in my house lol. I was able to sell my second hand Philips Shaver, the Philishave 8894 after using it for like 3-4 years 
(not on eBay, but on a second hand item listing).
Ebay has been good so far though. I’ve bought a few items from there. The latest one is a Yonex badminton racquet ARC-10. I’m quite sure that it’s fake though as the price was too good to be true (AUD$70, where as the genuine retail is around $250-300) lol, but let’s see when it arrives in a few days.
Selling your stuffs but don’t know how? Check your nearest “iSOLD It” shop and you can happily boast to your friends “Hey, I sold an item on eBay!” 
Watch the video on their site if you want to know more about how it works: iSold It
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Beware of doing business with the drop-off store chains like iSold It. They have caused hundreds of people to loose millions of dollars and have had numerous lawsuits filed against them. Check out http://www.amitheonlyone.org for the truth about the drop off stores.
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Hm interesting, Gene. However, looking at the numbers of shops and branches they already have, they seem to be doing quite well.
Well if we are the consumer, I guess we don’t really care, do we? Unless if you are planning to open a drop-off shop like this.
Thats so simple, basically you don’t need to do anything!
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Michael, iSold It sold over 900 franchises before they got “caught.” Where are they today? Only about 250 stores opened before they started closing. Now there are only about 100 still open and trying to survive. The corporate HQ closed in LA and moved to a “home-based office” in San Diego. Two of their competitors, NuMarkets and QuikDrop, went out of business and SnappyAuctions is slowly folding.
The stores are not doing well. They are struggling to stay open and putting money into them as long as they can. The concept doesn’t work. By using them you are costing them money and supporting the corrupt franchisers. What if the store closes after you drop off your items? Some people have gotten their stuff or money back and others haven’t.
Read this blog: http://www.franchisepick.com/isold-it-american-dream-or-franchise-nightmare/ and tell me you want to use a system like that!
Gene
Thanks for clearing that up, Gene. Sounds quite scary indeed