{"id":2515,"date":"2006-11-17T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2006-11-17T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T09:31:19","slug":"buying_and_sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/buying_and_sell\/","title":{"rendered":"buying and selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hessiebell\/285273552\/\" title=\"turkeylurkey!\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/119\/285273552_d20c745b2a.jpg\"  alt=\"turkeylurkey!\" class=\"photo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so, as a commenter so kindly suggested, i posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.craigslist.org\/fur\/236029100.html\">ad for my futon<\/a> on craigslist last night.  as of this moment, i have received six replies. two of which have offered to pick it up today (but one of them asked if i&#8217;d be willing to knock $25 off the price &#8211; uh, no).  i&#8217;m not sure what the etiquette for this type of selling is.  do i give the first responder first crack, then if it falls through, the second, third, etc?   what i&#8217;ve done is emailed all the interested parties with a &#8220;yes, it&#8217;s still available&#8221; and i think whoever shows up first with cash in hand will be the lucky winner.<br \/>\nholy crap, while writing that paragraph, i&#8217;ve gotten a reply and some guy is coming by tonight to pick it up.  wow!<br \/>\nhm&#8230;  i wonder if i can get the couch delivered sooner.   i was so worried it would be a big hassle to get the futon gone i got the very nice people at sears to hold off delivery for two weeks.  i don&#8217;t want to be couchless for that long, though.  maybe i&#8217;ll call nice norma the saleslady and see what she can do for me.  but, i won&#8217;t do that until there&#8217;s actually an empty space in my livingroom.  just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, as a commenter so kindly suggested, i posted an ad for my futon on craigslist last night. as of this moment, i have received six replies. two of which have offered to pick it up today (but one of them asked if i&#8217;d be willing to knock $25 off the price &#8211; uh, no). <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/buying_and_sell\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}