Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

tgroom57

kernalpop wrote: »

I did but didn't find it helpful in this instance. There were loads that hadn't sold and one off's that went for £1 or so.

Not sure if this was mentioned above...
Ebay may or may not charge you for listing the item, but ebay will always charge you if an item sells. (currently around 10% I believe)

I keep my ebay photos in a separate folder on the pc, and another folder for the ones that 'sold'.

kernalpop

tgroom57 wrote: »

Not sure if this was mentioned above...
Ebay may or may not charge you for listing the item, but ebay will always charge you if an item sells. (currently around 10% I believe)

I keep my ebay photos in a separate folder on the pc, and another folder for the ones that 'sold'.

Plus Pay pal take 20p per transaction and 3.5% of the sale.

kittyle

Fantastic thread, thanks to the person who suggested it. I've only sold 3 times on ebay, but my mind has been wondering all over my house this weekend making mental notes of all the 'come in handy one day' stuff I've been hording for AGES. Must admit to getting a little (understatement) upset when I had a look in completed listings for albums, and found a rare, early Black Sabbath autographed cover with album had sold for £295.00. I have one with not only the autographs of all four but the concert ticket from Fri 11 Sept 1970 is with it...and my ex loaned the album in just it's sleeve, years ago and never got it back, Grrrr!!!

anrutpea

Funny story - my fella used to work in the produce dept for a large supermarket chain. He was unpacking potatoes one day and noticed there was lots of soil in the empty crates. He must have been bored cos the next thing he did was put the soil into freezer bags and stuck reduced barcodes on for 15p and left them in the reduced aisle. People were actually buying these bags of soil and they all sold within a few hours. :rotfl:Where there's muck there's money!

KirstyO

I know its not really an strange one, but I sold a broken mobile phone for twice as much as a working one (and coincidentally for twice as much as Mazuma are offering for the same broken handset)...

An old clarinet case (I bought a new, more sturdy case for mine as I travel with it more now)

Clothes - even if they only went for 99p, all 12 or so listings sold.

Used cardboard magazine files...listed for 50p, expected 50p if anything....went for £1.20...they were donated to me years ago!

tallyhoh

I just sold 2 empty wood cotton reels for £2.95

pseeker_2

(...but then some people are buying rubbish in bulk...what's the website? we sell rubbish?)

anyway, my e-Bay picks:

* smashed nokia phone circuit board for spares (phone ran over by cars)
* Used, trimmed guitar strings
* faulty USB hub as spares
* faulty cooked HDD as spares
* phone stylus i found on the street
* an old phone's user manuals (XDA orbit) from office clearance
* a spare silicon wrist-support pad (from pack of two, i only need one hand right...) was bought by a guy in Italy(!)


and stuff i randomly found and thought it could be useful to someone, so i just put it up on gumtree (only costs me couple of minutes right?) like old working PC, boxing padding...
i gave away on gumtree for nothing or symbolic £1 - sometimes people were even generous!

shame these days the eBay percentages+postage are a bit forbidding...

pseeker_2

Monkeynut wrote: »

Do a Completed Listings search and have a look at what has sold.
It's a really useful tool, especially for items like that

search for "sold" in subject.

sorted.

it made for some interesting reading

kalsha

Thanks kernalpop. Great advice. Still reading about it before I take the plunge!

anrutpea

Today I sold an Aladdin mega drive game without box for £1 + £1.30 p&p. I also listed a jean paul gaultier 50ml perfume that is only 25% full and a burberry brit 100ml 30% full and they are both being bid on 99p and 89p so far without p&p. These have been lying around for ages and I don't really like them but wear them occasionally when I run out of what I like.

I am also sending a hand hygiene pack that the hospitals were giving away at the height of the bird flu epidemic. Was free so profit is profit.