From Arcade to Money Made!

I love to haul away vintage arcade machines.  They’re popular among collectors as long as they work.

More than that, I love to make money for our clients when we sell their good stuff and give them money back.  That’s popular among everybody, as long as they work.

The Popeye Arcade Machine Job

A nice lady in Great Falls, Virginia contacted us to haul away some of her stuff.  Among that stuff was a vintage Popeye Nintendo arcade machine.  She paid us $250 to haul away two pickup truck loads of stuff, using our Speedpass link on our website.  The normal price for this amount of hauling is $350…

So on the first visit we hauled away some junk, including some carpet, a chair, and some miscellaneous stuff.  We left the arcade machine to haul away on the next visit but we did take some photos of it so we could put it up for sale.

Thank You Facebook Marketplace!

I checked online and found this same machine selling for about $400.  One guy was asking $2,450, but no one went after it.  So I listed her machine on Facebook Marketplace for $795 after plugging the machine in and verifying that it worked.  Within 48 hours I had sold it for my asking price.

Cash Back for the Customer on the Arcade Machine

Women with cash back from arcade sale

She got $280 back within 48 hours after only spending $250 on her junk removal job!

Whenever we sell something that we’re hauling away for a customer, they get 35 percent of the sales price as long as we sell it for more than $20.  Our client’s share on this one sale was $280!  She was thrilled to get the money plus we still have other items to sell!

Welcome to the next generation of junk removal–cash back when we sell your good stuff!  (We must be eating our spinach…)

 

CHILE BIKE SILLY

Meet my new friend from Chile.  He came here two months ago with his family, but not on a bike.  He has four kids, ages six to 14.  He needs a bicycle for his wife.

A Bike for His Wife

Call it a bike or bicycle, this guy from Chile is happy!

A bike for his wife!

His wife needs a new bicycle.  He saw ours on Craigslist.  He buys it!

He is looking for another one for his 14-year-old.  Also, they want a set of outdoor furniture for their deck.

Furthermore, the customer who had us haul away the bicycle gets 35% of the sales price, or $28.  Hence, everybody wins!

This is a good example of how we work.  Instead of throwing the bicycle into a landfill, we sell it to someone who could use it.  So, it’s a win for the junk removal client, it’s also a win for the buyer, and it’s a win for our company.

We enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who had this hauled away.  We also enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who buy our items.  Finally, we enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who get a refund back.

The retail price of this bicycle is around $300.  His wife gets it for $80.  So, that’s one happy wife!

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Cash Refund for a Tennis Pro!

Cash refund for a tennis player?  Sure!

Meet Richard, a pro tennis player who recently sold his home in the Kentlands, then moved to New England.  He had us come and haul away 3 pieces of exercise equipment which we were happy to do.  Accordingly, he paid us $150 for hauling them away.

We then took them to our store and sold all 3 for about $500.  As a result, Richard got $250 back!

Ironically, we ended up hauling two of the items right back to the Kentlands area and placed them in the homes of other Kentlands residents!

Finally, Richard poses outside our retail store with his refund check.  Congratulations, Richard!  Game, set and match!

Cash refund from the sale of exercise equipment!

Richard pays $150, gets $250 cash refund back!

CASH BACK JUNK REMOVAL!

It’s amazing how fast some of these refunds happen, too!  In this case we drove only about 5 miles to get to his home.  Then, he showed us some exercise equipment he hadn’t used in a long time.  He was moving to New England, and he didn’t want to haul the equipment along for the trip.  Who could blame him?

So, we gave him a price to haul it off, which we believe was below what it would have cost him to go elsewhere.  Accordingly, he went with our offer and had us haul away the stuff.  We took it over to our store (we use storage units not instead…) and sold it within about a week.

Richard got a percentage of the sale, which was about 50 percent at the time.  (We now give 35 percent!)  After all was said and done, he made $100 more on the sale of the equipment than he paid to have it hauled away!  That’s a cash refund from the sale of his junk!

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MEET MY NEW FRIEND

Meet My New Friend

Meet my new friend!  Maybe it was her Pittsburgh Steelers sweatshirt, or just the cool electric car she rides around in every day, but I liked Carol Portis at Leisure World the moment I saw her.  She was kind enough to take over the responsibility to have her friend’s apartment cleaned out.

She heard about us and had us do the job.  It’s the Carol Portis’ of the world that make having good friends so special.My new friend

One of the many things I enjoy about the work that I do is meeting the people I meet.  We tend to get involved in their lives when something significant is happening, be it a job transfer, a move, a college student coming home to move in, a divorce, or whatever it may be.

People like Carol make it easier for others.  She stepped in and made life easier for her friend, when in fact, life may not be that easy on a day-to-day basis for Carol.

I applaud her for the unselfish way she helped out her friend.  As a result, the apartment got cleaned out and her friend’s life was made easier.

Way to go, Carol!  You’re awesome!

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