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Things You Never Thought You Could Sell
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As to packaging, admittedly I only sell on ebay occasionally but I reuse bubble wrap and jiffy envelopes from stuff that has been sent to me and if it is a bigger parcel I reuse a box from somewhere like Amazon, or just bubble wrap it and then wrap it in a black bin liner with plenty of parcel tape. I never pay for packaging other than the parcel tape (and a bin bag!)gemma_louise wrote: »hi this as really interested me has i have lots of old clothing and items no longer use, however i get confused with the postage? how do i do postage and find out cost, and how much do you charge for packaging? and where to buy packaging cheap?0 -
My late husband was a compulsive hoarder.and since he died I have sold quite a few bits of 'junk' that I didnt really know what to do with. A box of old,broken car radios. Assorted electrical gadgets,that I couldnt identify . A Sat Nav without the map card. A vile faux leather jacket from the '80s. The item that made the most was an 'Arsenal' watch.I've sold several watches that needed a new battery.
I've got tons of this stuff still to get rid of.The garage and outhouse are still full of mysterious boxes of junk!
I know there are people who collect old car tax discs, but I thought that it was the very old discs. I'd be wary of selling 'modern' discs.
As to packaging,I always reuse things like Jiffy bags .0 -
A short while ago, I sold a part-used receipt book on E-Bay. The first few pages had been used and were missing. I put it on for 99p, and it sold for 1.49 - plus 50p postage!!!
The buyer could have bought a new one for that price!
Strange, eh?0 -
When I first discovered you could get rid of your old tat on eBay AND get money for it, I had a huge clear out and sold masses of stuff, including a sauna, which I never thought anyone would want to have the hassle of taking away – what a surprise when I got a good price and they turned up with a huge van and took it away! The strangest item was something I sold for a friend of mine. She had moved into a house in a village and the seller had 5 full-length telegraph poles in the garden. He offered to take them away, but my friend’s husband said “no, don’t do that – we will find a use for them....”. Anyway, TEN years later, my friend decided the time had come to get rid of these so she could re-claim her garden, and was quoted £400 to have them removed! I suggested we tried eBay, because if someone would just take them away then she had saved £400. Well, to our surprise, they actually went for £50 – 3 large guys turned up the next day with a large van and a chain saw, and took them away in smaller lengths. They wanted them to build a tree house. :cool:
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Surprised that a MS Windows 95 operating system on floppy discs sold, and even more surprised that a floppy disc set fetches more than cdrom.0
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When we moved into our house 5 years ago; i sold 2 mature shrubs from the garden for £80!! the guy came all the way down to Sussex from London, dug them up himself and took them home. Since then, i always try selling on eBay first before free-cycling anything.0
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Back in the old days of eBay I used to pick up postcards at the cinema and sell those, mostly to the US as they didn't get the same ones there. I sold several full sets of 6 postcards with the individual characters from The Man in the Iron Mask and people were paying £17 - £25 for each one!
Also around the time of the Gladiator movie, there was a CD Rom floating about in some shops with a trailer and some other bits on and these also were selling to the US for between £20 and £30 each!
Sadly these days too many people are selling these items, so you can't got such good money for them. Most recently I listed a 1950s department store used powder compact for 99p and it sold for £35!! My nan was going to chuck it away before I snaffled it!I'm so sexy it's a wonder my underpants don't explode.0 -
I'm really bad at getting around to putting things on eBay, I have a bag of things to put on eBay but never get around to it, I tend to find it takes so much time to list them only to make 50p
However I did once sell some coat hangers (Asia ones!)Best wins in 2013 £200 and Mini iPad. 2014 no wins. 2015 2 nights 5* hotel with £300 vouchers plus £1150 Harrods gift card
Rehome an unwanted prize or gift with a seriously ill child through Postpals.co.uk0 -
These all just go to show that value is completely subjective!!! One man's...0
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I sold my knob on ebay - got a fiver for it
It came off an old washing machine - other than the door, it was the only thing of value... I sold the door, as well!You've never seen me, but I've been here all along - watching and learning...:cool:0
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