Who would have thought selling items would be so difficult? I'm pretty sure I've told you in previous posts that people in Japan tend to not like used items. This obviously makes selling your stuff in Japan extremely difficult! So we were pretty limited to the small expat and foreigner community. Dealing with such a small community of people left us not having much room to negotiate on the price, or the timing of getting rid of our stuff. Joe complained about selling our couch too early, but at least we didn't have to
pay someone to come and take it at the last minute.
You can't exactly set your junk out on the curb here - you
literally have to pay someone to come and pick up your garbage. This
generally costs more than what the item is even worth. Plus, who wants
to pay to get rid of garbage? We were left with a lot of random odds and ends, so we were scrounging at the last minute
trying to demolish everything and anything we could to fit inside
regular tiny Japanese garbage bags. If there's ever a next time, I think we'll just ship everything. ;)
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