Today’s #WCW is South Bay resident, Christen Webb.
Webb created a private, Facebook group called “South Bay Trash And Treasure Resale & Bargain Hunters.” The group was designed to serve as a virtual yard sale for bargain hunters which Webb describes as, “A spin off of Craigslist, Ebay, Etsy, Threadflip, and flea markets.”
Webb is a wife and mother who hates to pay full price for items sold in stores that she can find elsewhere. After years of selling her items on Ebay or Craigslist and spending lots of hours running around flea markets and garage sales, she decided that with all the groups on Facebook, she had nothing to lose.
She wanted to venture out and do something new with her own rules and guidelines. So, she created a group where locals can buy and sell their belongings. Her goal is to save the community time and money finding items they need and to help reconnect society.
One can simply join the group by searching for the group’s name in the search engine by typing, “Torrance Trash and Treasure.” Once found, you can simply click JOIN group and Webb will approve those residing in the south bay cities.
If multiple people are interested in the item, it is preferred that that seller starts at the top of the list and works their way down the line of comments out of fairness. If for some reason you would not like to sell to a particular person, Webb asks that you block them in your settings. Any type or bulling or unfairness should be reported to Webb as she wants this site to be about coming together and helping each other out, not creating enemies.
The page is not designed as a bidding game, rather first-come, first- served. The seller creates a set price and once someone is interested in the item, it is up to the buyer and seller to set up a pick-up time. It depends on people’s schedule and availability for pick-ups. If schedules do not coincide, then seller can move on to next person, but it is preferred it be agreed upon between buyer and seller.
The Facebook page is a Public Group and anyone can search through it. You will need approval, however, in order to see the newsfeed with the community information. Any member can add or approve members to the group.
Webb believes that, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Something that my neighbor would throw out and think nothing of I could find great use for. Why are we just dumping are old used items in the trash or leaving them on the curbside when someone else, or friends could be in need of it. The great thing about the group is that anytime one of your friends post something you get notified, leaving your friends with first dibs if they respond with interested in a timely manner.”
Webb also would like the pages newsfeed to be for free items, curb alerts, coupons that you won’t be using and anything that may help another person. Webb explains, “Just remember it is for us to all come together as a community and maybe even make a few new friends.”
In addition, Webb hopes that it will be a community board for fundraisers, local events, small businesses and bargain shopping.
Besides the exclusivity of the group, there are some fun terms one should know when joining the group.
Such as:
Interested: If you like what someone is selling comment with interested.
Possibly Interested: if you aren’t sure and need a few hours to think about it.
Sold: When items sells comment with sold
PPU: Possible Pick Up once a pick up time is arranged.
Skip: If you were interested, but then changed your mind and seller can move to next person.
Bump: If your item(s) has not received an interested comment and you would like to have your post pushed to the top of the newsfeed you can comment with Bump.
Porch Pick Up: Seller can leave item on porch and give buyer instructions on where to leave $.
ISO: in search of, if u are in search of an item put ISO and then the item you are in search of and maybe someone in the group has one lying around they can sell you cheaper than a department store would.
You can find Webb’s page here.
