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rogan · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 416 Location: at home, in France

Is there a site or a forum where expats advertise stuff that they want to sell in Riyadh.

I'm thinking about something like the expat site in Moscow where people advertise what the can't/don't want to take home with them when they leave.

I have just arrived and need to equip my apartment and would be interested in any TV, DVD player, PC etc

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

You've got to look around the noticeboards of the supermarkets - hi-tech hasn't hit Riyadh expats yet.

On the other hand you can buy anything you need for your flat - including half-used razor blades, tubes of toothpaste, teatowels, old copies of 'Arab News' at twenty halalahs a throw and a lot more. La Fontaine's ant was a positive spendthrift compared to your average Riyadh expat.

One thing the western expat is unlikely to do is to grossly overcharge you. Sub-continentals and Arab expats on the other hand have been known to try and get double the new price for their old junk. Please don't take this as a racist comment - there are plenty of those nationalities who don't indulge in such shady practices - it's just that nobody's ever come across them :)

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

You must learn to live parsimoniously. Buy nothing. Otherwise you will never qualify for membership of the 500 Club.

rogan · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 416 Location: at home, in France

B*gger the 500 club - I need a TV, a DVD player, a computer
and a SW radio.

mo1 · Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

www.expatriates.com - Saudi Arabia - Items For Sale

Useful site, most of the ads are genuine.

Hope this helps.