Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

Wantosave

Hi All

Revisiting this forum after finally finding the thread (was having a senile moment, although not that old!).

Well, I would be interested in getting my account up and running on ebay to see if I can rise to the ebay challenge. However, I really do not know the best way to go about this. Perhaps I could ask a friend who knows about ebay to get my account under way or ask my father when he has time, etc?????

I have tried unsuccessfully to get the account going on my own but got caught in a 'loop' so to speak and wasn't able to progress further with setting up the account. Please can those more experienced ebayers advise me on the best way forward. I am also slightly anxious about the fees charged on ebay for various things although appreciate this is how ebay make their money (and why they are so successfull!) - can you still make this a viable part-time business concern allowing for the charges?

Looking forward to your feedback

Best wishes

:A Money Angel

angelavdavis

Well dead chuffed that I have managed to sell an old mobile phone box for £4.99 plus postage - less than two days after listing! I would never have tried to sell this had I not read this thread.

SAV3R

Don't know if this will be of use to anyone, I discovered that beyblades are popular on e-bay. We have tried to sell them at carboots with no interest, sold 8 in abundle this week for £43, I thought we'd be lucky to get above fiver. We had 18 people watching the auction and it was only on for 5 days.

Horace

I managed to sell a part-used Christian Lacroix Noir after shave moisturiser for 20p at the carboot last week. I got rid because apparently it stings:eek:

Got rid of loads of horror DVDs for £1 each as well:j

silverelephant

My best ebay sell was a tin of metallic pencils that I bought from Poundland - they sold for £12 plus postage!!! Bought a few more next time but only got £6 each for them (still well worth it). Unfortunately Poundland have never had them in for over a year. It's amazing the things you can pick up in Poundland or Asda for next to nothing but then sell on for crafters, anything craft related tends to be horrendously over priced so crafters are normally fighting each other to win your items!

jaymonds

I did find this website, a mobile recycling and sold my benq mobile to it. the raised fund, I donated to a charity. I am happy with its service. has anyone tried it. would like to know your experience.. as I have got 3 more mobiles lying at my home.

any suggestions welcome.

if anyone knows a company paying more than this..

cobragirl

Thanks for the hint... I've actually been saving my perfume bottles hoping to sell them but as I've never seen empty ones on ebay I haven't bothered to try. Now I know it's possible maybe I can get rid of the dust collectors!!:j

x_raphael_xx

jenchin66 wrote: »

We have sold old car tax discs on ebay, had about 12 and they sold for just over £9 :T :T

Nooooooo! I just binned a load!! I think a rummage in the bin is in order!!:D

GirlRacer_2

jaymonds wrote: »

I did find this website, a mobile recycling and sold my benq mobile to it. the raised fund, I donated to a charity. I am happy with its service. has anyone tried it. would like to know your experience.. as I have got 3 more mobiles lying at my home.

any suggestions welcome.

if anyone knows a company paying more than this..

I've used Mazuma in the past. Go through Quidco and get cashback. I've found they pay more than envirofone and pay out really quickly

frosty

A friend was clearing out their loft and they came across a box of airfix planes,all the kits were complete but the boxes were a bit tatty and torn and very dusty.They were going to the tip:eek: so I asked if I could have them and they just laughed and said yes of course you can.I listed them on ebay in pairs and I raised £99.48p,:j my friends couldnt believe it.The I money raised has just been given to the Burma appeal.:D