Selling Your Used Equipment at ASTOMART!

As a new user, I think it would be helpful for an experienced seller to walk us through the process of deciding upon a price, deciding whether to require pick-up or ship, deciding who pays for shipping ... and then posting a Classified AD in ASTROMART. As a new user, I found the registration process for $15 sensible, then got verified, and am able to log in and see that as a non-vendor, I have 20 ads I may post. I am eager for that next step ... to find the elusive "post a classified ad!" link or button and get going, entering my information. Searching for it has taken me on a virtual tour of the entire site, and I have found many comparable ads for 5" - 12" SCT telescopes for sale, some local, some far away, and I have seen what everyone else posted. I am just eager to create and enter my own post next, and it has not been easy. ASTROMART CHAT has been busy or off-line, and I have started waiting to hear back from them about this topic. When I get an answer, I will be sure to try and help the next newbie over this important sales threshold ... their first ad placement! Until then ... I will lurk and wait. Looking forward to any input from experienced sellers on this! scutcomb @juno dot com, in Mountain View, CA, lover of astronomy, nature, and birds in particular, and very fond of M11, which seems to bring it all together for me!

Hi Steven.....placing the actual ad is fairly simple.

Click on the "Classifieds" tab at the top of the page. Look on the left side of the screen and you will see about 4 boxes with options in them. One of those options says "Place a new ad"....click that and follow the prompts.

As for pricing your item(s) use the search function and find past examples of those items.....see what they sold for.....decide how much you need for yours. As for shipping....I usually include shipping in my price (within the US). Not a huge seller myself though, more of a packrat....

Decided whether to ship or require pickup would be too subjective IMO to offer advice on that....If I was selling a DOB it would be pickup only though.....

Steven D Cutcomb said:

As a new user, I think it would be helpful for an experienced seller to walk us through the process of deciding upon a price, deciding whether to require pick-up or ship, deciding who pays for shipping ... and then posting a Classified AD in ASTROMART. As a new user, I found the registration process for $15 sensible, then got verified, and am able to log in and see that as a non-vendor, I have 20 ads I may post. I am eager for that next step ... to find the elusive "post a classified ad!" link or button and get going, entering my information. Searching for it has taken me on a virtual tour of the entire site, and I have found many comparable ads for 5" - 12" SCT telescopes for sale, some local, some far away, and I have seen what everyone else posted. I am just eager to create and enter my own post next, and it has not been easy. ASTROMART CHAT has been busy or off-line, and I have started waiting to hear back from them about this topic. When I get an answer, I will be sure to try and help the next newbie over this important sales threshold ... their first ad placement! Until then ... I will lurk and wait. Looking forward to any input from experienced sellers on this! scutcomb @juno dot com, in Mountain View, CA, lover of astronomy, nature, and birds in particular, and very fond of M11, which seems to bring it all together for me!