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Things You Never Thought You Could Sell
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Just found this thread and am inspired to try selling some of the clutter I have!
Is Ebay any good for recent paperbacks(e.g The Other Queen, Philippa Gregory)?
I have a few older books that are more unusual and might do ok but I also have a pile of fiction that was going to go to the charity shop (clearing my £2,000 overdraft is now my challenge, then I can put the overdraft interest towards a better cause!)."Does it spark joy?" - Marie Kondo
"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." Napoleon Hill0 -
allybee101 wrote: »Just found this thread and am inspired to try selling some of the clutter I have!
Is Ebay any good for recent paperbacks(e.g The Other Queen, Philippa Gregory)?
I have a few older books that are more unusual and might do ok but I also have a pile of fiction that was going to go to the charity shop (clearing my £2,000 overdraft is now my challenge, then I can put the overdraft interest towards a better cause!).
Books are a difficult thing to sell. Personally, I wouldn't bother with eBay. Amazon Marketplace allows you to list your books to sell, but you often find that there are people selling them for 1p plus the standard postage of about £2, so it's a tough category. I work as cabin crew, and when I find discarded books (normally novels) onboard, I usually send them straight down the charity shop.0 -
Ok thanks,
I will have to investigate some of the other things I have lying around and see if any of them are likely to do well.
I have got one book that Amazon has listed for about £70 which I might hand on! And a fairly rare Bat book (not in print any more) which might do well. I'll do some investigating/
Looks like the cheap paperbacks will be off to the charity shop as originally planned!"Does it spark joy?" - Marie Kondo
"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." Napoleon Hill0 -
lyric_grace wrote: »The thing that I listed for a joke was 2 old copies of "Heat" magazine as I was just about to throw them away, I advertised them as "well read condition" and put celebrity names in the title. I sold them for double their cover value! Amazing what some people buy!!!!
This is amazing! i was just about to throw away my last 3 consecutive issues of More mag, might stick them on ebay first!!Paying it all off in 2017:
Finance 1- [STRIKE]115[/STRIKE] Paid Jan 2017
Finance 2- 335
CC - [STRIKE]2000[/STRIKE]1800
OD 1 - [STRIKE]2200[/STRIKE] 1850
OD 2 - 25000 -
allybee101 wrote: »Ok thanks,
I will have to investigate some of the other things I have lying around and see if any of them are likely to do well.
I have got one book that Amazon has listed for about £70 which I might hand on! And a fairly rare Bat book (not in print any more) which might do well. I'll do some investigating/
Looks like the cheap paperbacks will be off to the charity shop as originally planned!
Bundle the cheap paperbacks together and list them as a job lot. Someone will buy them to break up and sell seperately. And if you list something which doesn't sell, don't think it won't sell just relist it and try again.
I love ebay. Like some of you once sold a broken games console which really surprised me, but also gave me an idea. Last year when my HDTV broke I opened it up and stripped it down selling each individual part in total I made £350 if I'd sold it complete as a broken TV would have been lucky to get £1000 -
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Bundle the cheap paperbacks together and list them as a job lot. Someone will buy them to break up and sell seperately. And if you list something which doesn't sell, don't think it won't sell just relist it and try again.
I love ebay. Like some of you once sold a broken games console which really surprised me, but also gave me an idea. Last year when my HDTV broke I opened it up and stripped it down selling each individual part in total I made £350 if I'd sold it complete as a broken TV would have been lucky to get £100
That's good if you know what the parts are, I wouldn't have a clue!
We have two hd dvd recorders that don't work any more (Wharfedale), I think somebody could use the hard drives out of them so I suppose I could open them up and list those.0 -
I had a wardrobe amnesty....and found an old concert t-shirt from 2001 that hubby has never worn. Too small. I ebayed it and it sold for £4.90! I even had a guy from canada asking how much the postage would be. It must be classed as vintage its so old!
I've also sold a pair of shoes my mother in law bought in the sale, a pair of caravello?!? ones but they're not my size so i've never worn them. They sold for £10, I think she only paid £8 for them as they were the last pair.0
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