I have recently cleaned out some sails from my garage, and thought I would make some money consigning them to a sail house. I found Atlantic Sail traders online, and they said if I mailed them to their store, then they would evaluate them, call me with their value, and hopefully a check for their discounted value so I could just sell them outright to thier store, rather then trying to consign them myself. This sounded easy enough to me, and would put some money in my pocket quicker then waiting for them to sell. SO, I sent three sails, called three times over the next 5 weeks, never got an answer more than 'we're evaluating them now' 'we'll call you back' and finally had to call again last week for the fourth time. This time, I held on the line as they 'finished evaluating' the sails. The value of the three sails was $550, according to the guy on the phone, and the owner was happy to send my $80 for the sails since I had chosen to sell them outright, or I could pay to have them shipped back to me. (I had already paid to ship them to FL).
Granted, I should have been more leary from the beginning. I would hope to be offered more than 20% for my sails. Take away from this story what you will. I hate to throw things out that someone could use, and I should have just given them away rather than be mislead and not given a fair cut of the value of the sails. (After all it was almost free inventory for them.) I kind of felt over a barrell.
Next time I'll use this site to give away things or give my stuff to chairity.
Granted, I should have been more leary from the beginning. I would hope to be offered more than 20% for my sails. Take away from this story what you will. I hate to throw things out that someone could use, and I should have just given them away rather than be mislead and not given a fair cut of the value of the sails. (After all it was almost free inventory for them.) I kind of felt over a barrell.
Next time I'll use this site to give away things or give my stuff to chairity.
