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Selling on Leboncoin in Paris
Over €1,000 made
A popular website to sell things on in France is leboncoin.fr. If you’re from the US think of it as the Craigslist of France. It’s super easy to use, just post items you want to sell, get messages, and then see how things go.
The other day I sold a large check-in luggage for €50. And the transaction was super smooth. I met the customer in person at a chosen public location, showed him the luggage, it was briefly inspected, payment was made in cash, and once I got home I added that €50 to the “Leboncoin cash stash”.
Over the last few months this “cash stash” has been growing, so one day I semi-jokingly mentioned to my wife that maybe we could pay for our summer vacation with Leboncoin money. She was like..
“Yeah, maybe, we have like €600 or something.” I wasn’t sure, so I went on to count, “Hm, we have like €870..” Shocked she said, “What!? We have that much, even after spending some of it!?”
Note, as we were selling items on Leboncoin we weren’t fully counting the total money coming in, nor really spending it. We just made sales from time to time and put the money we’d get into a can, without any specific plans on what to do with it.
But one day in the not so distant past some of the money was spent. My wife and I randomly stumbled upon a…
