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| cathy jane |
Posted - Jan 09 2007 : 2:20:31 PM
Dear Farmgirls Sisters,
I need your help/advice! I have decided to sell my Country Living grain mill. I bought it several years ago after saving up gift money for it for a long time, and just have never used it! I have a really bad right shoulder from some back problems, and I've banged up my right hand so many times in the past few years that it is always stiff and sore. I thought when I got it that my daughter would do the work for me with it, but she is married with little ones and a farm of her own to care for now. So there it sits, taking up shelf space. I'll just have to continue baking my bread with the store-bought stuff - I let the bread machine do the kneading for me - saves my sore parts some agony!
It is really a wonderful piece with an etched pottery/crockery bowl to catch the flour in. I would love to know that someone is using it, and enjoying it. I looked up the website for the company, and new today they are $375 (if I recall correctly I gave almost that much for mine a few years ago!)
I have never sold anything online before. Is anyone here interested in it? Can y'all help me decide where else to list it please? Is E-bay difficult to get set up on? It will be quite heavy to ship. How do I figure that in with the price? If I get $250 for it I will be very happy! (I could sure use the money right now - why do all the insurance and tax bills come due at the same time?!?!?)
Thanks for your help!
Cathy Jane
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| cathy jane |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 12:21:52 PM
I SOLD IT! Thanks so much to those of you who took the time to offer your advice. It went to Wildedibles in CA for my asking price plus postage. I am thrilled that it is out of my closet and being used by a man who already owned 2 grain mills, but wasunhappy with both - he loves the Country Living mill.
cathy jane
"Treat everyone you meet today as if they are wearing a sign that says MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL!" Mary Kay Ash
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| wildedibles |
Posted - Jan 17 2007 : 1:49:53 PM
I will buy your grain mill, let me know if you still have it.....quote:
Originally posted by cathy jane
Dear Farmgirls Sisters,
I need your help/advice! I have decided to sell my Country Living grain mill. I bought it several years ago after saving up gift money for it for a long time, and just have never used it! I have a really bad right shoulder from some back problems, and I've banged up my right hand so many times in the past few years that it is always stiff and sore. I thought when I got it that my daughter would do the work for me with it, but she is married with little ones and a farm of her own to care for now. So there it sits, taking up shelf space. I'll just have to continue baking my bread with the store-bought stuff - I let the bread machine do the kneading for me - saves my sore parts some agony!
It is really a wonderful piece with an etched pottery/crockery bowl to catch the flour in. I would love to know that someone is using it, and enjoying it. I looked up the website for the company, and new today they are $375 (if I recall correctly I gave almost that much for mine a few years ago!)
I have never sold anything online before. Is anyone here interested in it? Can y'all help me decide where else to list it please? Is E-bay difficult to get set up on? It will be quite heavy to ship. How do I figure that in with the price? If I get $250 for it I will be very happy! (I could sure use the money right now - why do all the insurance and tax bills come due at the same time?!?!?)
Thanks for your help!
Cathy Jane
"Treat everyone you meet today as if they are wearing a sign that says MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL!" Mary Kay Ash
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| Ronna |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 9:22:48 PM
Craig's List is cool, but I forget to check it everyday. The 10# (1800 she says) of buttons I just bought were listed there. No one else had contacted her about them. As it turned out, she used to work for the Dentist I go to and remembered me...that's what happens sometimes when you have a weird name :) She even lowered the price, though I would have paid what she originally asked before we met.
Most areas also have Freecycle for posting things you want or have to give away and ones for items you'd like to sell. All are neat and keep stuff out of the landfills.
Ronna |
| cathy jane |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 5:05:05 PM
More fabulous suggestions from my farmgirl sisters! I would never have thought of the Farmers Market idea. Although that would have to wait until Spring, and hopefully I will have it sold by then. But if not, then I will surely follow up on that idea.
Ronna, I went to Craigslist, as you recommended, and WOW - what a cool site - didn't even know such a site was available for my area (well, actually, for Lexington, which is an hour away, but we are very rural where we live, and used to traveling "to do" stuff) It was very, very simple to list my item for sale and it was FREE! Also, it seems that the Craigslist guy/people?? make every effort to keep the entire site safe, and make lots of suggestions about dealing with customers so as not to get taken in by a scam of some sort. I really appreciate that, as I tend to naive and trusting.
Thanks again, ladies, for your wonderful input!
cathy jane
"Treat everyone you meet today as if they are wearing a sign that says MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL!" Mary Kay Ash
contact me at www.marykay.com/cathyjrichie |
| Rosemary |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 09:12:13 AM
What a fabulous idea! True community living. Where I live, in rural Virginia, it's bad form to buy major farm equipment new without checking with neighboring farmers to see and would be willing to go halves and share the equipment. Some people have better storage facilities, so sometimes the deal is just if I can park it in your barn, you can use it when I'm done. But this is even more practical, and such a friendly thing to do. I hope you'll try this and report on the results -- although a couple of hundred bucks in hand for selling it outright wouldn't suck, either.  |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 06:14:48 AM
That's a wonderful suggestion, Jenn! My neighbor has a grain mill and says she never uses it anymore although she did in the past... I was thinking about getting one, maybe I should ask her to borrow it or demonstrate it for me....
Cathy, maybe a good place to find someone interested in the grain mill would be at your local farmer's market. Just find someone who sells whole-grain bread and ask if they would mind displaying a card with the basic information about your grain mill.
I got interested in grinding my own grain through the lady at our local farmer's market who makes bread - she makes 50 loaves every week in her own kitchen and sells them. She grinds the organic wheat herself. Sometimes she sells out in an hour.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 7:24:29 PM
Cathy,
I just wanted to give you a different suggestion. Do you know of someone who would like to grind their own flour that does not have a grain mill. Maybe the two of you could work out an arrangment where they would operate the mill and the two of you would split the flour. That way they don't have to buy a mill and you would have someone to grind it. Also, I think a younger woman would appreciate learning from you.
Just a thought.
Jenn |
| Ronna |
Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 3:44:50 PM
Cathy, I just checked on eBay and the one listed is starting at $50 but has a reserve and no bidders yet. It's listes as Country Living grain mill, but does not have the container to hold the ground wheat, says it sells for $375. I thought I'd grind wheat in my VitaMix, but have only done it a couple of times. I got it for $24.50 at Salvation Army, one of the older all metal ones, so I don't have a big investment like you do.
My Cheese slicer/scale was for a wheel of cheese and would cut the wedge according to the weight a customer asked to buy. I can put it in a friends booth at the antique mall in Reno, it's just so heavy I can barely move it myself. Haven't asked my daughter, she might want it anyway. I know I fell in love with it, as I collect scales and it was so unusual and paid on it weekly for what seemed like forever. Good luck on selling your mill. If your son is familiar with selling on eBay, it will make it easier. Be sure to put a reserve, even though it costs a bit more, so you don't end up having to sell it for nearly nothing. I got two Wedgwood blue Jasper ashtrays to go with what my cousin sent me for 99 cents, being the only bidder. Even with $5.95 shipping, it's way less than what they are worth. She sent the lighter and cigarette urn, so figured I needed the ashtrays too, even though no one smokes inside the house. Ronna |
| cathy jane |
Posted - Jan 14 2007 : 3:25:40 PM
Dear Faith and Ronna,
You gals are so AWESOME to take time to share your words of wisdom with me. I didn't know that E-bay took a % - duh?!?!, or that I could just use the bathroom scales for an approximate weight. Also, I have never heard of Craigslist, I will check it out.
My oldest son, Josh, has said that he will help me list it on e-bay, or whatever, if that's the route I take. He's a computer guru - actually owns this computer that I'm using. He just came in and set it up so that I am listening to Chris Ledoux while typing! How fun!
Ronna, do you have an antique store in your area that would take your wonderful old meat slicer on consignment? I know there are lots of people (with money) who would buy it as they are rather rare anymore. Might be worth checking into. Thanks again girls!
cathy jane
"Treat everyone you meet today as if they are wearing a sign that says MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL!" Mary Kay Ash |
| Ronna |
Posted - Jan 09 2007 : 8:48:33 PM
I'd try Craigslist for selling also...doesn't cost anything and it's all over the USA. Is there a online recycling list in your area? Reno has several, some for free stuff and some for selling. eBay is good, but if you list it there, be sure to list that it's very heavy and will be pricey to ship...not that a bidder shouldn't already know it, but some people aren't too smart. I have a country store cheese slicer/scale I'd love to sell; paid $350 for it more than 25 years ago, but it's so heavy would have to go by freight and that's a fortune. Only one I've seen on eBay was listed as to be picked up at the sellers place..and someone bought it for about $500.
Good luck, I know only too well about pricey things we thought we needed that collect dust. How about a Vitamix for grinding wheat, or does that make too much heat while grinding?
Ronna |
| faithymom |
Posted - Jan 09 2007 : 3:35:01 PM
e-bay is easy to set up a seller's account, but they do take a percentage of the sale price as their fee.
The shipping charges can be added on and calculated from your zip to the buyer's zip, but I think you need to have a weight estimate in order to do that part...I'd put it on the bathroom scale and use that number...
I set up a seller account, but haven't used it. If I remember, it pretty much walks you through step by step on e-bay's site...I know I set mine up by myself and I'm not the most computer savvy folks around.
Please post when/if you do get it listed.
Faith
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