Selling furniture in France....

April 2, 2006 7:21 PM

Selling-Furniture-in-France: Any suggestions for websites to post to to sell furniture in France (specifically in Lyon)? Craiglist, for instance, seems to have a rather small following in this town. Any other thoughts/secrets to selling stuff in France are appreciated....

We have a bunch of totally-like-new IKEA stuff we (a couple of poor students) are looking to part with by the beginning of July since we can't (affordably) bring it with us back to Canada....

posted by rumbles to Travel & Transportation around France (3 answers total)

I suggest that you put adverts in all faculties there or go put them on a some kind of a "depot-vente" like http://www.depot-vente-lyon.com

Ask people around you, they'll tell about those depot-vente
posted by zouhair at 3:44 AM on April 3, 2006

Do you have friends that would store it for you for a couple of months? I'm not offering to buy it from you (I probably can't afford it), but I'm going to be arriving in Lyon mid-august for their 1st semester, and I imagine that a large number of other students will also be moving in to new places for the beginning of the uni year then (or earlier, like you're advised to). It'd be a hassle for the friends, but you could offer them a cut of what it sells for.

As a side note, do you mind if I contact you for some kind of guidelines on what it's like over there? I couldn't see an email address, but mine is jacalata at hotmail dot com.
posted by jacalata at 4:42 AM on April 3, 2006

Best answer: Lyon Web is the site I used for all that kind of thing when I lived in Lyon three years ago...

Whatever you don't sell, I would consider donating to Emmaus - they'll pick it up for free.
posted by creeky at 5:14 AM on April 3, 2006