How to Prepare Household Appliances for Shipping

Prepare your Household Appliances for Shipping in six easy steps Sold a large household item and need to prepare it for shipment? We always procrastinate shipping large household items. The main reason is how to prepare those items for pickup. Make sure your items such as furniture, stoves, washing machines or refrigerators are packed and
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Why I never use U-Haul

A Phlatbed customer, Lisa, explains why she doesn’t subscribe to U-Hauls deceptive pricing and inconsistencies. She uses Phlatbed and it’s network of drivers, right from her phone.
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On Demand moving and Furniture item Delivery

We all dread the issue of moving an item across town. Whether it’s the item on sale at the store, or from  tag sale, or the item you bought on the Facebook Marketplace. In some cases you miss out on a good deal simply because you had no way to get the item home. Everyone
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Three Pillars of the Collaborative Economy

While in Amsterdam a while ago I spent some time with Pieter Van De Glind – Dutch Global Curator for Collaborative Consumption at ShareNL. We got to discussing the Sharing economy, global acceptance, trends, scalability, permanence, and the fundamentals upon which it’s success is built upon. Collaborative consumption, also known as the Sharing Economy is indeed the new economy. No 24
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Hello from Amsterdam – Sharing Economy at Scale

THIS IS FROM AN OLD POST. 500,000 bookings per night on Airbnb, we spend most holiday seasons into the New Year in Amsterdam. Of course, we tend to use airbnb as one of those bookings. Fascinating direction the world is taking thanks to technology, and a vision that the world can indeed benefit from a democratization
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What Wikipedia won’t tell you about moving IKEA furniture

If you’ve ever been to IKEA then you have experienced the best in showroom furniture assembly display. However, the way it looks on the shelves and how it looks in your living room are two very different things, especially how you get it to it’s final destination after shelling out money! Here are a few points to
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Why transporting IKEA furniture is a *ITCH!

First it comes in a million pieces! Departing from the staged prototypes you see in the catalog or while walking through the store. Then deciding which combinations, measurements, color, and layout suit you. Welcome to IKEA! You grapple with lugging it on the cart across the strategically laid out store designed to ensure you walk
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5 idle capital assets you have and don’t even know you had!

Idle capital, assets you own that you didn’t know were revenue centers until the sharing economy took hold. Here are 5 idle capital assets you own that could be making you money! Don’t let them idle away, your financial advisor should be telling you this! Capital assets you have Extra Bedroom This can be in
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5 ways to Boost your Local Economy

Collaborative consumption has a direct correlation to your local economy, the sharing economy. Though technology has increased access and reduced geographic limitations, collaborative consumption at it’s very core is directly tied to supporting your immediate local economy….everything from food, clothing, services, moving, car sharing, couch surfing, among other things. Here are five simple ways to
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Exercising Caution within the Collaborative Consumption Ecosystem

The Sharing economy provides opportunities across all parties involved in each exchange. However, exercising common sense beyond cost, convenience, and accessibility is equally important. This goes both ways between consumers and service providers, hence the Sharing Economy is a shared responsibility based on mutual desired outcomes. Cultural immersion, personal service, collaboratively contributing tangibly to your
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