car boot or t'internet?

EB69

that's awful! I must have been lucky so far - never had a problem yet. But then I dont sell terribly expensive stuff so perhaps they dont think its worth robbing me!

KingElvis

EB69 wrote: »

that's awful! I must have been lucky so far - never had a problem yet. But then I dont sell terribly expensive stuff so perhaps they dont think its worth robbing me!

I use Gumtree to be honest, it costs nowt, cash in hand and very little chance of being ripped off if you insist on cash and meet in a neautral area.......

EB69

I think that's great for larger purchases, but I dont think i could be bothered with bits and pieces - so much hassle going out to meet etc. I think I will borrow BF's car and head onto one of them there boot sales!

Thanks for all the advice!

annibee

ebay is free listing this weekend if theres nothing wrong with them may as well put them on there its not going to cost you anything!!!

YumYum

I would check prices on Amazon's marketplace first. I went through a load of DVDs, CDs and books that I wanted to get rid of and anything that had a chance of making a decent profit I stuck on Amazon and took the rest to a car boot sale. Managed to make a couple of hundred pounds on Amazon on things that I didn't really expect to sell (e.g.:5 year old textbooks) whilst I hardly sold any books at the carboot. Might be the area I was booting in though!

Good luck!

redpete

Meadows wrote: »

...Look at Amazon most are on sale for 1p.

plus P&P

... at 1p a book you are going to make nothing.

They price it like this because they don't pay commission on what they claim for P&P. The actual cost to them to pack and post the book is less than you pay, so overall they make sufficient profit to make it worthwhile.

Meadows

redpete wrote: »

plus P&P They price it like this because they don't pay commission on what they claim for P&P. The actual cost to them to pack and post the book is less than you pay, so overall they make sufficient profit to make it worthwhile.

As I quoted earlier "paid 45p plus postage. The book actually cost as much as I had paid to post" so in this particular case hardly any money was made on that sale.

redpete

Meadows wrote: »

As I quoted earlier "paid 45p plus postage. The book actually cost as much as I had paid to post" so in this particular case hardly any money was made on that sale.

They would have made 45p on the book then, obviously sufficient to be worth their effort. Most (all?) of the 1p books have £2.75 P&P giving plenty of scope for the seller to make money.

Snowy_Owl

I've listed on ebay only twice - free listong time and maybe half a dozen items each time and nothing sold. Have sold stuff at car boots and had my first sale on gumtree this week - result!!!:beer:

Not a huge fan of selling on ebay.......gumtree just seems easier to set up for selling.

Snowy

DebtFreedom_2

I would do the other way round - Amazon first, then have a look at how much it's going on e-bay, and then carboot. There's a far greater market out there on t'internet, especially if there's anything specialist, newish, or electronic.