2nd Hand Value

Sym0n

Hi,
Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I've done a search and read through but can't find anything that helps.

Basically my fiancee and me broke up about three weeks ago. We purchased the house together and unfortunately neither of us can afford to keep it on ourselves so it's going up for sale, great time for it, and we will just have to swallow the negative equity when it finally sells.

Obviously the house is furnished and we are both in agreement that the contents are to be split 50/50. I'm trying to find a site or some way that ascertain the 2nd hand market value of the appliances so that if one of us does want to keep that item, for example the TV, then that person would pay the other person 50% of the 2nd hand market value. And the other wouldn't get a raw deal out of the process, basically so that both parties are happy, as can be in the situation, with the outcome.

I've looked on eBay and searched google, but it's difficult to narrow stuff down to the right model etc. Some stuff we have is still selling in the shops now, at a greatly reduced price to when we bought it :rolleyes:.

Does anyone have any ideas or advice? This whole mess is stressful enough for us, so I'd rather that we didn't end up arguing over something as stupid as the value of a washing machine.

Thanks for any help,

Sym0n

lovethymini

Hi SymOn

Sorry to hear of your woes

Two thing come to mind;-

1 - How about doing an Ebay search for completed listings (if that's not what you've already done)
2 - I've been there myself and the way we did it was have a conversation about things each of you knew you wanted to take. For instance, I knew my ex would never get round to buying another sofa so he kept that, but I took a chest of drawers which I liked and he wasn't bothered with. He had the stereo and I had the telly!

We didn't get into the value of things, it would have complicated it too much. I did hear once though, that a second hand item is usually worth only about a third of it's original shop price.

Trying to be too definitive about values of items may not be constructive, why not try to understand what items each of you particularly want and go from there.

Best of luck for the future

Obukit

Normally a much easier way to to each take half the items instead of the value, e.g. he has the sofa, you have the TV and DVD player or similar. That way you can each get any goods that have sentimental value without having to worry about valuing them, plus it's much easier to negotiate with stuff (e.g. "If you have x, I'll have y and z") then it is to haggle with money.

Once everything is split, you can then decide what to take and what to sell.

Hope that helps - splitting property is always a little emotional but try to look at it as a positive chance to declutter rather than "losing" things .

Sym0n

Hi,
Thank you both for your replies. We are meeting up tomorrow to discuss things and get some decorating done around the house before we get a valuation done. So I'll have a chat then and see what we can sort out.

Thanks again,

Sym0n