I was in a situation where I had to move unexpectedly.

The embarrassing thing is that I have to go to a much narrower house than I live in now.

You have to throw away a lot of unidentifiable objects that will be buried here and there.

Sometimes, every time I face this situation, I get a fresh feel for how many things I don't need.

Most of them have no place to use right away, but they are a waste to throw away.



"Mom, the carrot market! You can sell it there!"



The wife is interested in her daughter's suggestion with a ferocious expression.



"Isn't that dangerous?"


"No. How hot these days are."



I have heard of it.

The mother and daughter immediately start marketing carrots.

The daughter brings the bedspread, spreads it vertically on the living room bookshelf, puts flower pots, clothes, health supplies, decorative baskets, and bowls, and puts them nicely.

It's a crappy studio.



After half a day, marketing began to take effect.

But this is also a definite market.

Of course there are nasty consumers.

What is the height and width, ask for a mark on the scratch, sell something else, send it by half-price courier, and there are all kinds of requests.



At first, his wife, who was disgusted by the immediate reaction, gets annoyed as she moves back and forth with a tape measure.



"I decided to meet you at the back door of the apartment, so you can follow me with that."



Finally, the first sale.

My wife was anxious, so I took a large flower pot and followed her towards the vacant lot at the back door of the apartment.

There is an SUV beside us on the side of the vacant lot.

A man in his thirties opens the window from the driver's seat and looks closely at us.



Is that that person?


It looks like it's not as soon as he turns away.

Seeing that a large shopping bag was placed on the passenger seat, what did that person have to sell at the carrot market?

The appointment time has passed 5 minutes, but the person who came to buy does not appear.



"Aren't you cheating?"


"Let's wait a little more."



As it became more and more uncomfortable to stand on the side of the street, a middle-aged woman got off the car that had stopped on the other side of the street and walked toward us and said.



"You came out to sell potted plants?"



Perhaps he was watching our dynamics.

I understand.

Just as his wife was anxious about selling carrots for the first time, other women seemed to be cautious and anxious about their face-to-face transactions with strangers.



Since then, the sales of carrots have been surprisingly booming.

Of course, it was ridiculously cheap, but it was still paying some cost, so it was unlikely that the buyer would be willing to buy the goods.



The second time I helped sell carrots was when I sold Jangdok.

He followed his wife who was walking in front of him with a whimper, and a grandmother in front of him smiled brightly and spoke to him.



"carrot?"



I was embarrassed.

My grandmother suddenly saw me and said it was a carrot.

Aha!

This grandmother is a buyer.



After seeing me and my grandmother talking, I return to the way my wife went and say hello to her.

This floor is where the seller and the buyer see and notice things because they don't know each other's faces.

Subsequently, a strong young man jumped from the other side and was handed a long poison.

It was grandmother's grandson.



The carrot deal seemed to be more often accompanied by men than women coming alone.

It may be because of heavy objects, but it seems that there is a big reason for safety.



The carrot deal wasn't just as strange or full of joy.

It wasn't a nuisance when I tried to sell the bicycle that had been left unattended in the apartment basement.

After tens of minutes of washing, I was scratched and loaded in the trunk of the car, punctured at the repair shop, and even taking pictures outside, I was annoyed at the idea that it would be better to just burn it.

What about electronics?

It takes too much time and effort to check if it works and look for a connector or accessory that you don't know where it is.



“It’s good if the new owner feels good about the things that I’ve cherished!”



I agreed with my wife.

It was an object that once gave me joy, so I thought it would be nice to be loved by others.

Anyway, after going through such hard work, a lot of things were sold, and while the house was organized neatly, the sales skills of my wife and daughter, who were new to carrots, also increased.



I was personally surprised to see the carrot deal between my wife and daughter for nearly a month.

In the midst of numerous cutting-edge transaction methods and strange apps, how exquisitely could there have been a means to effectively penetrate the living economy of citizens?




A system that benefits each other by distributing products that are of no use to the person, but that are useful to others at unprecedented prices.

It is also good for the goods being traded.

If you give it for free, it would be careless, but since you paid a small amount of money and bought it, the buyer will save that price.



As always, if it is popular, shades are also made.

A system that filters out the precedents of losing trust in the farming of scammers, who have emerged with a plausible distribution method, seemed to be essential.



And more importantly, trust and courtesy between the seller and the buyer.

While selling things, I sometimes complained of my wife and daughter.



"Ah! You say you're going to buy 5,000 won and pack it carefully and send it to a convenience store. You can't pay for the delivery."



The daughter said, confronting the complaint.



"Don't tell me. The person who even sent a text message asking you to keep the appointment time did not come to the meeting place, so I contacted you, and said that I couldn't buy it at that time.



In fact, when I check several internet cafes to see if there is a lot of this happening, I am complaining that the purchasing manners are discouraging the willingness to trade.

Not only are they complaining about the so-called'no show', but they tried to share for free, but they brought them to the front of the house, asked for personal information only because they thought they were women, or they were throwing money to say they weren't shaving, or they were dealing with a department store employee or a courier. There were all kinds of complaints, such as demanding excessive packaging and after-sale service for inexpensive used goods.



In particular, some of the users who gave free sharing in good faith sometimes stuck their tongue out at the other's absurd rudeness.

It was said that some people treated it in a way that they should be grateful for the things that should be given away.



It is said that the size of the domestic used market has grown fivefold over the past five years, reaching 20 trillion won.

Used trading is a very desirable phenomenon not only from the standpoint of sellers and buyers, but also from the viewpoint of improving the efficiency of resource use and reducing environmental pollution.



As the market grows, the likelihood of problems increases proportionally.

Criminal activities such as fraudulent transactions are to be suppressed by law or technology.

In addition, rudeness and non- manners can greatly shrink the market, so carrots will taste even more if they trade with mutual consideration. 



(Photo = provided by carrot market)