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Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

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  • Been having a big declutter over the past few months and have sold a fair bit. Some of the more unusual were:

    - Expired camera films. Sold two lots of these. All several years past their 'expiry' date. Sold two last week for £2 plus postage.
    - Spare bulbs for Christmas tree lights. When Woolworths closed down, I went to the last few hours of one of the closing sales. They were filling crates with random stuff and selling them for a couple of quid. One I bought had loads of spare bulbs. Have had them since (about 5 years), and sold the lot for £30 plus postage this evening. Didn't think they'd sell at all!

    As much as I hate eBay's horrendous fees, the exposure it gets often makes it worth paying for. I have very little success on Gumtree, but get a bidding war on eBay and you're quids in.
  • Max_b_2
    Max_b_2 Posts: 51 Forumite
    WOW thanks to this thread I have sold this week

    half a bottle of perfume (£5)
    a necklace I got free for spending over £10 last year (£4)
    a charger for an electrical item that I never thought would sell.... started at 99p it sold for over £18 :D
    total debt Nov 13 - £3080
    Make £10 a day Nov 13 £634.68/£300 (yeeha!)
    1% = £32.45 5% cleared
    Nov Roadkill 6p
  • tgroom57
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    I have an ebay MMD ! An item I sold this evening, I'd have been glad to get £7 for - it was used and a little worn. I put on high quality photos to show, and it went for over double. Which is more than a new one would cost. *embarrassed*
  • Max_b wrote: »
    WOW thanks to this thread I have sold this week

    half a bottle of perfume (£5)
    a necklace I got free for spending over £10 last year (£4)
    a charger for an electrical item that I never thought would sell.... started at 99p it sold for over £18 :D

    Out of curiosity, how did you manage to post the perfume? I've got a few bottles I'd like to try and sell but was told that you couldn't send perfume via royal mail anymore? :(
  • Out of curiosity, how did you manage to post the perfume? I've got a few bottles I'd like to try and sell but was told that you couldn't send perfume via royal mail anymore? :(

    I'm going to pretend I havent seen this and will reply after I post it via royal mail tomorrow *whoops*
    total debt Nov 13 - £3080
    Make £10 a day Nov 13 £634.68/£300 (yeeha!)
    1% = £32.45 5% cleared
    Nov Roadkill 6p
  • tgroom57 wrote: »
    I have an ebay MMD ! An item I sold this evening, I'd have been glad to get £7 for - it was used and a little worn. I put on high quality photos to show, and it went for over double. Which is more than a new one would cost. *embarrassed*

    An item is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. That's great that you managed to sell it for more than new. What are your tips!?
  • tgroom57
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    edited 18 November 2013 at 12:07PM
    An item is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. That's great that you managed to sell it for more than new. What are your tips!?

    It was a black item with lots of detail. I spent ages getting some good detailed photos - the other listings it just shows as a black box, but when you have it in hand it is quite a delightful item. I'm posting today and have a little something I can slip in the parcel.
    More useful is knowing you can (currently) host your photo on flickr and use the html link in the listing. Ebay waffled on something about hosting photos recently - I hope I'll still be able to use the flickr link in future.
  • tgroom57 wrote: »
    It was a black item with lots of detail. I spent ages getting some good detailed photos - the other listings it just shows as a black box, but when you have it in hand it is quite a delightful item. I'm posting today and have a little something I can slip in the parcel.
    More useful is knowing you can (currently) host your photo on flickr and use the html link in the listing. Ebay waffled on something about hosting photos recently - I hope I'll still be able to use the flickr link in future.

    Great - just goes to show how a little effort can pay off big.

    The Flickr thing is great - I use photobucket which is pretty much the same - and it means I can have 30 photos on a listing completely free, rather than 12 and having to pay for 11 of those! If you know a little bit of html, you can tweak the settings too, have them at a specific size, for example.
  • tgroom57 wrote: »
    I have an ebay MMD ! An item I sold this evening, I'd have been glad to get £7 for - it was used and a little worn. I put on high quality photos to show, and it went for over double. Which is more than a new one would cost. *embarrassed*


    Don't be embarrassed! I think ebay can get you like that, if you're not careful, depending on the item you want to buy and the timing of the sale.

    I wanted to buy a bike turbo trainer, and rationalised that there must be lots of these sitting in garages up and down the land unused, so went onto ebay to see what was on offer locally. I searched completed sales, got a rough idea of price, and kept an eye out over week or so, to see what was around. In short not much, really, that reflected the fact that these were used, unguaranteed items.

    I put in a couple of 'best offer' bids, and also asked one vendor if he had a B-I-N in mind. The final prices they were going for was around the £100 mark, for fairly basic models (I'm just beginner and didn't want anything fancy). In the end I went to an online 'branch' of a bike retailer and bought a brand new one, delivered for the total price of £119. It came in less than the week that the ebay sales were taking. For the saving of an extra tenner or so, I didn't think ebay was worth it this time round. What's been nice to know is that it looks as if I ever want to pass it on, as long as I get the timing right, I ought to be able to sell it on for not very much less than I bought it for AND get a couple of winters' worth of use out of it :o so I'll be storing the box in the loft!!
    Reason for edit? Can spell, can't type!
  • For those of you shipping slightly heavier stuff, where Royal Mail prices are absurd, I've sent two parcels over the last week, one via myHermes and the other via Collect Plus today. Both can be tracked online, myHermes seems to be a little slower with the updating. Plus, Quidco are currently offering £1 cashback on the Collect Plus bookings. So it can cost as little as £3.89 to send up to 2kg on their slower service. Royal mail wanted £6.20 to send my 700g parcel via 2nd class!
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