Sell on Porch Pickups
Porch Pickups is the fastest way to sell stuff locally online — turn your garage, attic, estate, or thrift haul into cash without paying eBay's 15% cut or dealing with Facebook Marketplace flakes. Hundreds of sellers run weekly drops on Porch Pickups; here's why.
Why sellers move to Porch Pickups
- Transparent, low commission. No listing fees, no monthly subscription. You only pay Porch Pickups when an item actually sells, and the percentage is published up front.
- Live video sales. Run a live auction event from your phone. Buyers watch, bid, and check out in real time — the closest thing to a livestream resale show without paying Whatnot's 8%.
- Built-in follower base. Buyers on Porch Pickups can follow you, get push notifications when you go live, and binge-bid your drops. Your regulars become repeat customers automatically.
- Bundled shipping. When a buyer wins multiple items, Porch Pickups combines them into one Shippo-quoted multi-package shipment. Fewer trips for you, cheaper shipping for them.
- Batch listing. Photograph a pile of items, drop them in, and Porch Pickups handles the layout. AI-assisted title and description generation gets a 20-item batch from photos to live in under 10 minutes.
- Fast payouts. Porch Pickups pays out through Stripe direct deposit, usually within days of pickup completion. Cash also fine for local porch pickups.
How selling on Porch Pickups works
- Sign up free. No application, no waitlist — you can list within minutes of creating your Porch Pickups account.
- Take photos. Phone-camera quality is fine. Porch Pickups auto-uploads and optimizes them.
- Set your pickup window. Choose porch pickup, shipping, or both. Most Porch Pickups sellers offer both.
- Set a starting price. Auctions on Porch Pickups typically start at $1 — the live bidding drives the price up.
- Buyers bid. Real-time WebSocket bidding means the auction stays exciting right up to the close.
- Get paid. Porch Pickups handles the Stripe charge, generates the pickup code, and notifies the buyer.
- Hand off or ship. Buyer arrives, you verify the pickup code, they take the item. Or print the Shippo label and drop it at the post office.
Who sells on Porch Pickups?
Estate sale companies. Thrift store overstock channels. Garage cleanouts. Weekly resellers running live drops. Vintage clothing curators. Tool collectors downsizing. Anyone who has stuff to move and wants it gone fast without paying a 15-20% marketplace tax. Porch Pickups was built for sellers who know that local auctions move inventory faster than fixed-price listings — and that porch pickup is the cheapest, fastest fulfillment method ever invented for resale.
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