Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

debranamelia

I sold a broken Sony Cybershot digital camera on ebay for £12. I'd checked with our local camera repairer, and it wasn't cost effective for me to fix it.

People buy all sorts of broken things to take apart and use for spare parts!

Happy ebaying!

eadieb

My mum had box's of my old 1970's dollies (pippa + sindy an barbie) and various clothes, furniture and accessories. They all sold on ebay and went all over the world. One of the pippas (who was naked and had tatty hair) sold for £80. Then months later I sold more dresses and one of them was a little ice skater dress for a doll a bit smaller than a barbie. I managed to identify it as a mary quant doll outfit and it sold for £160 to someone in new zealand. It took a lot of time identifying the dolls and their clothes etc. but there are collectors of mary quant and pippa 1970's dolls on the internet and they have websites cataloguing all the outfits with the dolls modelling them.

in amongst the dolls was a tiny colouring pencil set (about 1 inch x 2inches) in a little plastic wallet, and it had a japanese company name on it. This tiny set sold for £30.

The dolls were the first things I sold on ebay and I was surprised as I had assumed old toys had to be immaculate and in boxs. I think the key was taking good close up photos in natural light and researching the exact name of the item and putting lots of info in the listings.

Corsa_driver

I found this 1970s catalogue at the back of a cupboard and was about to throw it in the dustbin, when I decided to list it on ebay. (much laughter from husband.) He wasn't laughing a week later when it fetched £37.50. It also cost the buyer £7.50 in postage. I asked the buyer why he wanted it and he said he collected everything he could from the seventies. So, this proved that you can sell anything.

Tuesday

I bought my daughter a dress from a Monsoon outlet store, she wore it for two winters and I sold it on ebay for more than I'd paid for it!

gmmklly

I work for a well known optical company as a lab manager and I hate havin to throw/recycle jiffy bags and small cardboard boxes. There are only do many I can store or bring home! Might be worth speaking to your local store as the 6 deliveries a week add up to a lot of jiffy bags and boxes! I'm in a small/med store and there are more than enough in my deliveries!

Jim_Todd

I recently sold my old laptop- Acer Aspire with a faulty screen and I had removed the hard drive for use as a separate drive (just bought a new outer case and it works as external drive). I expected to give it away for 99p plus postage. I got a bidding war and received £36 pounds (less £7.40 postage). One mans junk is an others treasure.

missskinnypinny

during a declutter i came across some irish punt banknotes a 20 note and a ten note listed on ebay and the total return was £46 still baffles me

tiptoes27

I moved into a modern house a few years ago and the kitchen has a dark green/brass large cooker and hood. I hated the cooker and the hood and decided to buy a new modern style one.

My husband was worried how he would dump the cooker as it was very large (like a range style cooker) and he thought he would have to pay someone to take it away. One of the brass handles had been ruined with oven cleaner, but apart from that it was in good condition and working order and was only 3/4 years old so I decided to put it on e-bay for 99p in the hope that someone would buy it and take it away. I also listed the matching hood for 99p.

I had loads of bidders and I was amazed when the hood sold for £70 and the cooker for £640! I was convinced the buyer would not turn up but they did, paid in cash, and loaded the cooked into a van. Had a follow up e-mail saying how delighted they were with the cooker and how they had been looking for a green one for ages. Just goes to show its true what they say 'one mans junk is another mans treasure (or something like that).

elsdonp

My first ever attempt to sell anything on eBay was my conservatory. It was relatively cheap as it was 100% UPVC & glass, but it was perfectly sound in itself, just lacking good foundations causing it to start to sink in one corner.
I was advised to put it on eBay and was very surprised to get a buyer who drove up in a rented white van a few days later and took away the whole thing, that I had dismantled by then. In exchange I got half the original price back in cash.
I'd love to know if the new owners ever re-erected it

pennypinchUK

I never thought I'd sell old printer cartridges, but after I'd put them on eBay I found out there's a whole industry filling them up with cheap ink and flogging them back on. And I used to chuck them away before....