It's closing time for my Tokyo apartment and I've got stuff...that I no longer need. I've put a rather lame sayonara sale ad in Metropolis and get some un-moving replies. I'd like to sell the stuff - which all merits the description, 'excellent condition' - but if not I'd just like someone to take it away, or give it to charity. Worst case I am going to hire movers to take it to my other abode in Izu which will cost, and as the place there already has pretty much everything in the way of appliances, be pretty redundant. Do any of you gaijin emeritus know a better way than Metropolis to get my sayonara groove on? Or know of a man with a van who will make the moving process less soul destroying. Or indeed the ins and outs of renting a truck? Calculating the number of boxes and having to put stuff like clothes that belong in plastic bags in boxes...the Japanese art of moving...me no-likey. My timeline is the end of May.
Try craigs list, gaijin pot, tokyo tell and sell, tokyo freecycle. Google them.
On Facebook there is a garage sale area too.
There are also some Sayonara sale sites but I don't know their names - again Google is your friend.
If all else fails, takkyubin to the Salvation army. Or rent a car and drive it to the Salvation army - their charity shop is in Wada Suginami-ku near Nakano.
You can also list stuff here on FG in the sale area.
A word of advice - have photos of everything and good information in your ads. Place the ads on all the sites similtaneously.
Don't put up with losers who waste your time and try to bargain you down. Don't hang around all day for some loser to show up - give a specific window of time for them to be there - especially if you are giving things away for free.
Thanks all, especially GomiGirl, for taking the time and for your practical info. Google is indeed my pal. A seemingly nice gentleman from TokyoMove has offered 25K for my washer/dryer, TV and fridge along with disposing the rest - bed, sofa, table, bookshelves - for tada. That's not a bad outcome compared with the prospect of lugging stuff to Izu that I don't need. Still it is a waste that 3 year old lightly used furniture should end up at the knackers yard.... My plan is to keep looking at options for another week or two. I have a decent bike, btw, bought in Shibuya Tokyu Hands 7/8 years ago. I went there with its higher prices looking for a bigger frame to match my bigger frame. That was back in the day before the cycling boom and classic Italian racing bike dealing shops in every neighborhood. It is a sturdy mountain bike type. As I cycled it to work on this beautiful day I will take a pic and post it after lunch. I'll sell it because I'll need something lighter with narrower tires if I am going to attempt the hills of Izu.
Bike brand is Jamis and model is Durango...echoes don't you think of Django...all those years of ownership I thought was it French but a quick google and I find out it is American. And I thought it was French because Jamis sounds like jam or nothing or something and Django, the gypsy guitarist was French...except he was not, he was a Belgium man I just found. It is a little distressing how much we find how little we know about our stuff just as we set to part... It cost somewhere around 45,000, yours for 8,000
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