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Alternative auction sites to Ebay Discussion Thread (Merged)

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  • Sammz
    Sammz Posts: 3,406 Forumite
    Or there is https://www.ibootsale.co.uk. Quite a few choices it seems but nothing like ebay.
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  • essexhoney
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    Trying to sell my sons bicycle he is far too big for it now, its only been used twice :rolleyes: want to do it on collection only but i thought id give free listing sites a try first - in no rush to get it gone!

    does anyone know of any free ad sites that they would reccommend?

    If it dont work i think ebay will be the way to go however!
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  • nightswimmer
    nightswimmer Posts: 1,015 Forumite
    essexhoney wrote:
    does anyone know of any free ad sites that they would reccommend?

    Don't know of any sites, but have you tried your local paper? many of them have free classified adds, and many allow you to submit the advert on-line.
  • essexhoney
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    its been in there for the past couple of days and no such luck yet. do you think it would be better to hang on to it til just before the summer :confused:
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  • nightswimmer
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    essexhoney wrote:
    its been in there for the past couple of days and no such luck yet. do you think it would be better to hang on to it til just before the summer :confused:

    It might be worth waiting until just before the Easter Holidays. Not only is it better weather but I would imagine most people who wanted a kids bike at this time of year would have bought it for Christmas - I know several of my family did. :o

    Then again, if the listings are free, there's no harm in keeping on trying. :)

    There are some free listing sites out there - hopefully someone can recommend some.
  • essexhoney
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    Thanks for that.
    I have found britlist and onlinecarboot (i think?) and have just put it on them found another called bitsandbobs and waiting for a confirmation email from them for my registration before i can list.
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  • Not sure if this is the one you mean?

    http://www.ibootsale.co.uk/main/index.php
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  • essexhoney
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    no thats a different one but thanks for that one :)
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  • soolin
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    If you live somewhere that is busy you could always put it out the front and put a note on it saying 'for sale £20' (or whatever).

    My sons did that a few years back, put a whole lot of garden type toys and bikes out on the drive witha note saying how much each was. They kept watch of course as my toen isn't the safest place in the country!, but within a few hours virtually everything had been sold.
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