Selling accessories?

Flapper wrote:
Well! I seem to have edged too close to the line and got edited in my original post, which specifically named some of the objects. So imagine, if you will, a pretty large, really heavy, metal thing that mounted in or on a truck, as an example.

Not the kind of thing a tent camper would be randomly looking for. Or something I can drop in either a collection box or unload at a drop off center. Had one of these undescribed things on craigslist for a long time, and only one offer that was far below scrap yard value. So looking to better target the local RV market.

Do RV dealers buy used/great condition items? I'd like some return, but it doesn't bother me that they would buy pretty low and resell higher.

Posting names of things here that you want to sell can give the looks that you are trying to get around the forum rules..

Most likely the items you posted on CL for a long time were priced way to high. Folks ARE looking for "deals" and what you deem as "scrap prices" that one contact offered most likely IS the value of the item.

Sorry, that just happens to be the way RV related items are.

Something you can do however is to list the items in a DIFFERENT SECTION of your local CL..

Instead of listing it in RVs section list in the GENERAL section, that sometimes works wonders in selling items since some sections like RVs gets polluted with RV dealers hogging the RV section with ads for new trailers.. Just not worth the effort of scrolling through several pages of hundreds of dealer ads (yeah, they are supposed to post in the dealer section, but they don't always follow the rules)..

I have done that with many things like tools and such.

CL also takes time, sometimes it may take a few months before someone responds to an ad so be patient and perhaps rethink your value you placed on your item, most likely it isn't worth as much as you wish..

Depending on what you are trying to sell, sometimes there just is not ANY "market" need for anyone wanting to buy it..

IE, say for example WD systems, most anyone that has bought a trailer AND needed one, bought it at the time of purchase.. In this case, you might be stuck with a piece of scrap.. The only way to sell that would be to sell it for dirt cheap (IE, new price was $600, used price say $75 or less)..

A real life example I can relate to is at one time I bought a Chinese knockoff small 2Kw portable non inverter gen on sale for $199, had it for 5 yrs, used it twice..

Decided to sell it, tried $125, no dice, tried $100 no dice, $75, SOLD. I got rid of a non used item, recovered a couple of bucks and the buyer got a great deal and something they could use.

As far as RV dealers buying it used, yeah, fat chance on that, if they did that they would look like a junk yard of other RV owners castoff junk. Doesn't hurt to ask but don't expect anything there..