I sold our car in one day.  
After it sat in front of our house for about three weeks with "For Sale" signs in it, I listed it on KSL.com.  I had three calls on it, and one offer.  All in the first day.
I think the trick is listing it at a reasonable price.  When I browsed for other cars of this type, I was finding prices as high as three times what I was asking for what looked to me to be comparable vehicles.  
I also learned that if you severely underprice baby items, people will practically beat down your door to get to them.  We had a nice double side by side jogging-type stroller that I listed for $50.  I probably should have listed it for $150, because I swear about five seconds after I hit the "Submit" button on the add, I started getting calls.  The first lady really wanted it but wanted to talk to her husband.  No sooner did I hang up with her when an Asian lady called and badgered me to take her offer, to the point paying me there and then with paypal.  I said okay.  Then I found out she lives about an hour and a half away and wants me to meet her in the middle.  I should have backed out of the deal, or told her that I'm charging 50 cents a mile delivery.  But I'm way too sweet for that.
Oh, and she works until 4:00 pm so we can't do it before that.  Which had me driving in rush hour traffic to meet this person so I can deliver something I should have gotten at least twice as much as I asked for... if only I'd have done my homework o pricing that one.
I had to quickly go to the website to mark the stroller as sold because my phone was ringing off the hook about it.
I also sold the girl's old tiny bicycle, and just now sold their train table with all the train stuff that went with it.   I am feeling like quite the salesman!  
I have a couple more things to list, but they're seasonal and I think I'll wait untl the season is right.
On a different note.
  I was watching Hulu – streaming television.  Thing 2 caught me.  She wants to watch.  So I switch from the death and violence crime show I'm watching to a show I think she might possibly like.  There is a series about Merlin I’ve seen a few episodes of, so I brought up that page and asked, “Do you know who Merlin is?”
“Yeah,” she says.  “My Grandma.”
So we’re watching Merlin. There is a Fast and Furious commercial.  Thing 2 puts on her best announcer voice and says “It’s Fast, and Serious!”
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