Most Popular Site to Sell Your Stuff: Craigslist

Decluttering and making money go hand in hand, as long as you find the right place to sell your stuff. Last week we asked you for your favorite sites to make a profit off of your used belongings, then looked at the five best sites to sell your stuff. Now it's time to crown the community favorite.

Predictably, you guys preferred the site that gave you the most control over who you sold to, when, where, and how much you made from the sale—even if it also came with issues ad drawbacks like the potential for scams, lowball offers, or less-than-normal people showing up to try and buy your stuff from you. That's right, Craigslist took the top spot with close to 42% of the overall vote.

Hot on its heels though was eBay , still riding high and bringing in just shy of 32% of the votes cast. Desite its issues with payment processor PayPal, its buyer-centric policies (that led many of you to call it out for rampant abuse and scam buyers that can leave sellers without both item and money), it's still a wildly popular place to sell you stuff, with a global reach and tons of users and potential buyers for all sorts of things. In third place with close to 14% of the vote was Amazon , which offers a great seller program that makes it easy to get rid of your stuff—from direct buybacks to easy listings next to new versions of the stuff you're selling, but many of you hit them for their fees. In fourth place with close to 6% of the votes cast was Facebook , with many of you noting that your local Facebook buy and sell groups are a great—and underrated way to sell things in your community. Bringing up the rear is tablet-and-smartphone-centric service Swappa , which brought in over 3% of the overall vote.

For more on each of these and the honorable mentions not listed here, make sure to head back to the full hive five feature to read more.

The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email attips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!

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