Craigslist, ebay, etc.

We had an old bandsaw. Couple of easily fixable mechanical problems, but we just wanted it gone. Put up a listing for it for free on a couple of local classified sites including craigslist, and within half an hour we were swamped with e-mails. Guy came over with a pickup truck, took it away, and we were pleased as heck.

I've ordered a lot of stuff online; most of it has gone fine. The few troublesome packages were:

* Grado RS-1 (~800 headphones I paid 500 for) shipped from Canada, took 7 weeks to get here. That was stressful and a pain dealing back and forth with the seller when neither one of us was entirely sure what was going on

* CD I ordered a month ago from Amazon for $3 shipped that USPS marked as "delivered" a full 9 days before it got to my door. Still haven't figured out how the heck that happened.

* Flash Drive I ordered a few weeks ago: After 6 shipping days, I PM the seller, ask what's up. No reply. Wait a day, start paypal claim. No reply. Wait 2 days, escalate Paypal claim. NO REPLY. Wait 2 more days, item shows up. STILL no reply. I was tempted to leave the claim and get my money back too but I cancelled it.

That's the thing about selling online - tell my my offer's crap, fine. Tell me you just don't like me, fine. Tell me you don't know what happened, OK. But tell me SOMETHING. People who don't respond piss me off.

Jam it back in, in the dark.