Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Selling stuff in Dubai.....

At the moment we are trying to sell some things before we move.  Five and a half years is a long time in which you can collect a lot of rubbish!  Amazing what people will do and ask....

  • I sold 2 IKEA stair-gates to someone for 40 dirhams (about 8 euros).  The next morning she calls back and asks if she can return them as they didn't fit!!! (the answer was: 'no')
  • 20 year old Harman Kardon amplifiers sell within 3 minutes of putting the add online, as do old B&W speakers (maybe we should have asked more...)
  • No, we cannot take 150 of the price and we certainly cannot deliver to Al Ain (1,5 hour drive) if the item is a sofa and a chair and I only want to get a few hundred dirhams for it!
  • Korean lady takes 30 minutes to find our house (she was in a 1-mile radius), views my table and 3 chairs and wonders for 10 minutes how she can make that into a table and 4 chairs.
  • Our old garden swing will have a new life in Turkey!
to be continued.....

by the way, let me know if you are interested in anything, we might be selling it :)

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