Starting to see distress sellers of goods?

BettiePage

lynzpower wrote: »

Im about to start selling some stuff on ebay again as Ive just accumulated stuff I wont wear ( office clothes with the tags on) and a couple of impulse buys pair of shoes Ill never wear. Its not cos I need the money, more I need the space.

The tags are supposed to stop you nicking them.

dougs

amcluesent wrote: »

Just had my weekly e-mail of stuff for sale on ebay offering local pickup.

hope you don't mind me asking but how do you set that up?

amcluesent

>How do you set it up?<

You do an advanced search on ebay and copy this text as the 'keyword' -

"cash on collection" "buyer must collect" "collection only" "no postage" "pick up only" "unable to post" "needs to be collected" "Collection in Person only" "can't post"

and tick to search title and description. Tick 'items near me' and set the miles from your postcode depending on how far you want to travel to get stuff, I use 10 miles.

Adjust other search options as you like.

Tick save this search and then edit the e-mail options for how long you want to get informed of new stuff that matches the search. Stuff that sellers won't post usually goes pretty cheap...

mr.broderick

Heavens sounds complicated.

dougs

amcluesent wrote: »

You do an advanced search on ebay and copy this text as the 'keyword' -

"cash on collection" "buyer must collect" "collection only" "no postage" "pick up only" "unable to post" "needs to be collected" "Collection in Person only" "can't post"

ah, thanks very much. I've just done that in my area and it brings up.....


nowt :rotfl:

mr.broderick

dougs wrote: »

ah, thanks very much. I've just done that in my area and it brings up.....


nowt :rotfl:

Ditto......

Errata

Try this, but don't put a space in your postcode
http://www.localbargainfinder.co.uk/

pickles110564

deepintrouble wrote: »

We've recently been to a large independant jeweller to order our wedding rings (getting married in April). They seem to have loads of Omegas and Rolexes in the pre owned section at present. When we went in october to order the rings thay probably had about 8 of each. Last week there were about two dozen rolexes and a fair few other high end watches in the pre owned section! looks like people are beginning to struggle for cash if you ask me, I should know because I'm one of them!

If you are struggling why are you going ahead with one of the most expensive events? And the divorce in a few years will cost you even more.

Really2

amcluesent wrote: »

Just had my weekly e-mail of stuff for sale on ebay offering local pickup.

IMHO, it looks like distress sales are starting; a high-end hi-fi, a small yacht, fancy digital camera.

Looks like peeps are selling off stuff in the hope of keeping the bailiff away and selling it for them.

So you have never been on ebay before then!

Would you ship high end audio or a yacht.

There has always been stuff like that on ebay. I think yoy may have a slight problem if you think someone sellingsomthing on ebay is a sign of a distessed seller. As ebay as only just started up?:rolleyes:

NeilYoung

mr.broderick wrote: »

Ditto......

I had the same until I realised the default search is for 'All of these words', I changed it to 'Any of these words' and got 18000 results.