If deb will make customer pay for shipping and insurance, I doubt the buyer will proceed buying UNLESS they have canvassed prices for the item and find it still reasonably priced with s/I. However, if deb wants top $ for her item, it boils down to whether she really wants to sell or keep hoarding items she thinks she wants to get rid of.
If someone on her Facebook account wanted an item she was selling and she had her price listed, surely the guy is smart enough to realize that shipping will cost more and she won’t know how much more until she has his address.
Most people don’t want to drive to someone’s house to pick something up. The less interaction, the better the sale.
Most hoarders place far more value on their stuff than is logical. That’s why they end up with a house full of stuff. Add on the fact that Deb’s also obsessed with money, I’d say right now she’s going to desperately try and make up the money she’s losing from her house by trying to sell and salvage anything and everything that ‘might’ have value.
My parents had the same hoarding mentality and money issues. They were actually very easy to figure out since everything revolved around money and ‘stuff.’ It’s an illness which they don’t recognize since they can justify their actions through their bank account. Their self worth is always tied to materialistic value and since they’ve thought this way their entire life and feel it’s served them well, they see no reason to change.
What I worry about is that if her priority is constantly on selling her valuable treasures for the most money and her health is on the back burner then this will take its toll and when she can no longer walk or get to the bank, how is she even going to spend all this money she’s been saving her entire life? Stashing money in her house is a horrible idea.
I actually worry for her. If she’s not going to move until she sells her house and all her stuff, she will never leave and she’ll end up a millionaire who never gets to spend her money and it will all go to the government. Meanwhile she’ll have lived in an unhealthy environment when she had a perfect opportunity to leave which is a tragedy.
For most people selling their house first would be the logical thing to do. Then move. In Deb’s case, it isn’t.
She’s got the finances and resources to do move now and be healthy and happy. She’ll forfeit that for money and stuff. It’s permanently embedded. My heart breaks for her.
