Use Case

Moving Soon? Sell Everything Before the Truck Arrives

A moving sale is different from a garage sale in one critical way: there's a deadline. The closing date doesn't move. The truck is scheduled. Whatever you haven't sold by then is going with you — or to the curb. An online moving sale on Kurb is built for that pressure. You list as you pack, drop prices as the date approaches, and clear the house without spending the last weekend behind a folding table.

The Tight Timeline of a Moving Sale

Most moving sales fail not because the items aren't desirable, but because they're posted too late. The couch you tried to sell three days before move day will get one or two lowball offers. The same couch listed three weeks before move day, photographed properly, with an offer system attached, will sell at a fair price. Time is the most underrated variable in selling secondhand furniture.

The fix is to start listing the moment you know you're moving. Even if you're not ready to part with items yet, having them photographed and in your storefront — set to "not yet available" or "pickup after [date]" — lets buyers find them, save them, and submit offers ahead of time. By the time you're ready to hand over the keys, half the inventory is already spoken for.

A Realistic Moving Sale Timeline

Here's the cadence that works for most households selling furniture, appliances, and accumulated stuff before a move.

6 weeks out
Photograph and list the big-ticket items: couches, dining sets, mattresses, large appliances. Price 25–40% off retail in good condition. These take the longest to sell.
4 weeks out
Add mid-tier items: bookshelves, side tables, small appliances, decor. Share your link in neighborhood Facebook groups, Nextdoor, and your group chats.
2 weeks out
Drop prices 15–20% on anything that hasn't sold. Add the smaller items you uncovered while packing — kitchenware, lamps, plants. Encourage bundle offers.
1 week out
Drop again. Mark everything "make me an offer." Email blast through Kurb's subscriber alerts to your interested buyers. This is when the bargain-hunters move.
Move day -2
Whatever's left goes free to the first taker. Drop one final "everything free / make an offer" alert. The remainder goes to Goodwill or the curb.

What Won't Work When You're 3 Weeks Out

The standard "post a few Facebook Marketplace listings" approach falls apart at moving-sale scale. You have too many items, the timeline is too tight, and the platforms aren't built for a coordinated clearance.

What Goes Wrong With the Default Approach

Facebook Marketplace caps you out. One listing per item means thirty separate posts, each with its own messages, each requiring a "yes still available" response, each shuffling to the bottom of your inbox.
Craigslist is a coin flip. Posts get flagged at random. The platform's audience has thinned. Replies are mostly scams.
A Google Doc is unbrowsable. You can list everything in one place, but on a phone it's unreadable, and one accidental edit takes out three rows.
Friends-of-friends doesn't scale. Asking your network is great for a few items. It can't move a whole house.
You can't drop prices systematically. Updating prices across thirty separate listings on different platforms is its own part-time job.

How Kurb Helps You Clear the House Before Move Day

Kurb is designed for exactly this case: a lot of items, a fixed deadline, and one person doing the selling. Everything lives at a single URL. You update prices in one place. Buyers see the full inventory at once, which makes bundle offers (the most powerful tool for a moving sale) actually possible.

What an Online Moving Sale Gets You

  • A single link for the whole house: Share kurbsale.com/smiths-moving in your building's WhatsApp, your office Slack, your neighborhood group. Everyone sees everything.
  • Photograph from your phone as you pack: The same time you're sorting items into "keep" and "sell" piles, you're listing them. No separate photo session.
  • Bundle offers for whole rooms: A buyer who needs an entire bedroom can submit one bundle offer for the bed, dresser, nightstands, and lamp. One transaction, one pickup.
  • Coordinate pickups in one place: Buyers submit offers; you accept and message them about pickup. No more juggling threads on Facebook, Craigslist, and three group chats.
  • Email alerts when you drop prices: Subscribers get notified when something they were watching gets cheaper. The closer to move day, the more they bite.
  • Real-time visibility: See which items have offers, which have views, which are getting interest. Decide what to push and what to discount with actual data.

After Move Day: Pause or End the Sale Cleanly

When you're done, you're done. Mark remaining items as sold, archive the sale, and the URL gracefully retires. If you're moving across town and want to keep selling a few items from the new place, you can keep the sale live and just update the pickup location. Kurb doesn't auto-bill you while the sale is paused — your prepaid period stacks, so a pause doesn't waste days.

Move day is closer than you think.

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