I would sell it on eBay and deal with shipping it. You have a wider audience and for the right price someone would pay a fair amount for shipping. What you should do though is pack it up carefully and take it to UPS and get it weighed and a specific estimate on shipping because people will ask shipping IN DETAIL.

(I once had someone email me several times about a fitted sheet and they would not buy it because I would not go to the post office and get a specific shipping price. I had it new in package for 99 cents.)

I'd try craigslist if I were you to start. Give it a week and if nothing crops up hit ebay. At least in my area there are a lot of people who cruise craigslist for this exact type of thing. Good luck!

Thanks. I'll start w/ craigslist and hopefully someone will want it. We don't want to have to ship this thing!

If I had 36 inches in my laundry room, I'd buy it from you and put it in mine. I think the Craiglist then ebay idea is probably the most practical way to approach it. If you have a grocery store bulletin board for things like that or a neighborhood newspaper, those might be worth a try too. They are a smaller audience, but the listings are usually low cost or free and you can try those close enough to come pick it up rather than dealing with shipping (on your end) or the expense on their end.

And no, I don't think a drainboard wuld be silly in a laundry room. The only counter I have currently is a couple of inches on either side of a bar size sink drop mounted in a 24" cabinet. I'd rather have a drainboard to put down a bleach bottle that could drip down the side or a hand washed item waiting for the other one to get rinsed before they are hung than to have them drip on me and the floor.

Wow! What a disaster! It makes you wonder how many people will want to take a chance on ANY Whitehaus sinks, after what you've gone through. They should at least send out a sample of the color, before you order it...$800 and you're just out...because it's purple, instead of sapphire blue???

That's ridiculous! :(

The nice thing about ebay is that you don't have to have people come to your house to look at it (and then not show up, etc). You can list it on ebay with a pick up only option or that the seller has to arrange shipping themselves. I bought furniture that was pick up only from Atlanta and just arranged to have a moving company pick it up and deliver it to me in Philadelphia. I also sold a faucet on ebay that the customer asked if she could save shipping charges by picking it up (we met at Whole Foods in Plymouth Mtg). I find Craigslist buyers to be way to cheap, umm, I mean, careful with their money.

I'd use it in the laundry room if there's space. I agree with lascatx. A drainboard isn't weird in a laundry room. It'd be weird in a bathroom, but a laundry room is a utilitarian space where things get washed and set to dry. Maybe this is because I have 2 boys, but I'm thinking specifically about cups, shoulder pads, disgusting leather padded gloves, and other things that shouldn't be put in the dryer.

If you do the e-bay route, be sure to get good insurance with the freight carrier if you have it shipped. I bought a Kohler Dickinson sink on e-bay and it arrived cracked and unusable. Apparently the shipping company dropped it! I had to file a complaint with e-bay because I panicked after the sellers didn't respond to me for a few days. It all turned out fine.....eventually. And, it was insured by the seller.

Oldhousegal- THAT is exactly what I am afraid of happening :(

I'd try craigslist first and if that doesnt work I'd donate to Habitat for Humanity. Shipping would be such a huge pain and eBay really is not set up in a way to benefit sellers anymore. For example if you did a local only sale, you wouldnt have any proof of delivery and the buyer could easily claim they never got it. Ebay requires proof that is verifiable online... basically online tracking by your shipper.

What about hooking it up in your garage? might be nice for washing hands, yard tools etc. Its a pricey utility sink, but better than letting it go to waste!

I thought about the garage too joyjoyjoy and using it as a utility sink. I really would feel bad b/c it is a pretty sink if you can deal w/ the purple-ish undertones. Donating might be an option. We'd get the tax deduction and the sink would hopefully find a home w/ someone who loves it.

I've been so upset since I saw this sink. I loved the whole style of this sink and I so badly wanted to put it in my kitchen. I'm just so upset about the color of it and the whole thing...

My other issue is, if we put it somewhere, like upstairs or the garage, since it is an apron front farmhouse, the cabinet and the countertops will have to be created for it (which of course costs $$)

Sigh...

It's $$$ enough that I'd go the CL way and require pickup. Just too risky to ship.

If I lived in Phila I'd sure help you out! So sorry for this snafu.

Could you put a photo of the actual sink here?

Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the actual sink at the moment. It is at the plumbers still right now b/c we haven't picked it up. We're going to get it and bring it to DFs house for potential buyers if we find one or if we find that's the route we want to go. I suppose I could send DF over to the plumbers to take a picture of the sink though if that would be helpful...

Absolutely try Craigslist! It's so,so easy and FREE--you have nothing to lose! Create an account before you post it, then you can easily re-post it every 10 days or so. If you don't end up finding a buyer, then you can put it in your laundry room--a drainborad will come in so handy in the laundry room, for newborn babies all the way up, there are MANY times I wish I had one!

CL and eBay. Absolutely both should work. eBay listing can just say no shipping, local pickup only. Or as others have said you can tell the buyer that if they want to arrange for shipping it is up to them but you will not be responsible for any damage done during shipping.

When listing it on CL, DO NOT put the price in the title of the listing. Include it in the body only. Otherwise every scammer out there will be emailing you. Just list it for $1 in the title, but clearly list the price in the body of the description.

Good Luck! (I'm about 45 minutes outside of Philly).

thanks everyone for the advice!

I think we are going to start w/ craigslist. I think we may list it in the philly craigslist too in addition to our local one and then hope people are willing to make the drive from philly to get it if they want it. If that doesn't work, then we may think about the ebay thing w/ the local pickup but joyjoy made a good point about allowing local pickup and then not having any proof for ebay, so I am thinking we'll probably keep it if we can't sell it on craigslist. leave the decision up to fate :)

At least this is a good cautionary tale- don't buy non-returnable items EVER unless you've seen them in person!

I'd do CL and ebay and whichever works faster wins. Just have them pay you at time of pickup for ebay, so you don't have to prove shipping, just as they can't prove paying. Or, make up a recipt that you both sign and/or take their picture with it at time of pickup. I just sold a steam shower on CL last night and it went smoothly.
I don't know why putting the price in the title makes any difference or not. When I look to buy on CL, I am put off by people who do that. YMMV
I don't think you want to waste $800 on a laundry sink that few will see.
One very important thing is to post a picture here. You never know what may come of that......

what a shame... however I think you will do well on CL. Last summer when i sold several items including a car I got close to the asking price for each item. I noticed that CL buyers are not hard to find and often show up promptly with cash. Get some good pics to show the sink and I am sure you will soon have a buyer.. good luck and let us know:) if you can post one here, you may find a gardenwebber may show up!!!!

Philly and it's surrounding area, is a very populated, sophisticated area. I'd do craig's list and say a prayer!

Well, there is a happy ending. The non-returnable sink became returnable when I told them I would buy subzero refrigerator/freezer drawers from them but only if they would take the sink back. They agreed. So, I cancelled my kitchenaid fridge/freeze drawers (different store) b/c they had an unattractive toe kick that couldn't be fully integrated and now I am getting the subzeros I wanted in the first place (but couldn't justify the added cost of) and they are taking the sink back which offsets (some) of the added cost of the sub zeros :)

Thanks for everyone's advice!