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llworking
Well, I would not report the sale of the appliances as that would be a casual sale of used merchandise. I would possibly consider the moving expenses to be a gift as there is a friendship between the buyer and the seller. I would have to ask a lot more questions to be certain. However, even if the moving expenses could or should have been considered to be part of the sale, unless the seller realized a capital gain of greater than 250k (highly unlikely in today's market and highly unlikely based on the information presented in this thread) its a relatively moot point. If I decided that the moving expenses were part of the sale, then I would simply include the moving expenses in the gross proceeds of the sale when reporting the home sale...which would result in no tax anyway.
I am a tax professional so perhaps my perspective would be different than yours. I also used the same link and disagree that there is any more information there than is here. In fact, the last poster on that thread agreed more with my stance than yours.