I have three people "in line" so to speak. One wanted to pick it up today but then tried to lowball (I'm already offering this thing below half of what I paid for it, no thanks) so that will probably not happen. The other two I have on notified standby to see if the first one ponies up. If none of them work out by the end of the day I'll take the ad down, wait a few days while I get it cleaned and presentable, and see if I can't get a little more out of the thing than what I paid and try to turn this whole mess around.
And yeah I kind of automatically figured bleach was too strong by default, absorption or otherwise.