[Hitman]

Good advice here so far. It will be tremendous work to sell things individually, and in the end, you'll be left with the stuff that people don't want that you still have to deal with. Selling as a lot will be much easier and get your money quicker.

I don't know why people fear eBay so much. Yeah, they take a portion of your sales, but they're also giving you a national platform that you can't get on your own. Yeah, if you sell enough you'll pay taxes on the sales, but if you're being taxed, it means you're making money too. The retail parts people that contribute to this forum have overhead costs and pay taxes too. They have to sell enough parts each month just to breakeven! It doesn't sound like you have overhead costs to cover.

The Irontrap Garage guys someone posted about even have an eBay store, and I think do most of their sales through that.

I sell my extra parts on eBay, it helps recover my costs a little and fund my hobby. I don't do the auction, I just use the buy it now function, and it operates like a store. The listings stay up until I cancel them, and things sell. Best part is, I don't have to manage it weekly like an auction. Sure they take a percentage, but I'm selling all over the country, and I don't have to meet people in parking lots, or get a dozen flakey emails like you get with craigslist or marketplace.