Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

MinniMe_2

wow this thread has given me so many ideas! will have a good old clear out at the weekend and then get listing!

Has anyone found used make up selling - I have a couple of bottles of foundation that are no longer the right colour for me.

Gina_of_course!

Well that was a fantastic read!
Annoyingly I burnt old tax discs last week - live and learn eh
Just dug my old phone box inners out of the recycling as I had already sold the phones via one of those sites that Martin has on his front page. ( I had kept the other bit for packaging)

I'm presently decluttering big style as I am going to sell my house and buy a park home or similar, I did think about putting it all on a car boot sale but reading through this thread has made me see that I should try Ebaying it first...

Bikinis??? do you reckon it would be better to sell a few together or list invidually, I have 15, 11 of them have not been worn, I did take the tags off tho (could kick myself now) I am unable to wear them as I had a mastectomy so they are surplus to requirements!! The same for a lot of strappy dresses and tops that I have... do you think I should put the reason behind why I am selling them... For those items (not the household stuff... btw.. I have a magic eye ball to list ) I am going to donate 10% of whatever is made to the local macmillan support centre.

I must have text about 5 people saying things like... omg perfume bottles, ballet shoes..... throughout the time I have read this thread !!!

oopalah

GirlRacer wrote: »

I've just dug out 7 old tax discs and placed them on E-Bay. Currently got 20 items listed (even sea shells). Will let you know how I get on.

Just curious, what do people do with old tax discs??

nichart20

I sell vouchers I get like £2 off and 2 for 1 entry for places like alton towers they only sell for small amounts but when they are free it all adds up.
I notice people are selling the walkers crisps packets with brit trip points on, multi pack codes would sell well

angeldiva

oopalah wrote: »

Just curious, what do people do with old tax discs??

They collect them, a bit like trainspotting I suppose. (sorry train spotters)

Scarlett.1974

I've just sat and read this whole thread, very interesting reading!

I've been ebaying our old junk for about 8 months now and I can confirm that people will literally buy anything. Some of my best sells have been:

My old clothes, mostly used.... some tops have gone for more than I paid for them new!
Mobile phones... even broken ones. A broken motorola v3i went for £45.00 last year.
A set of 4 candles in a gift box. These were a freebie from a cosmetics website for spending over so much. They went for £35.00 :eek:

I'm waiting for my son to grow out of his thomas wooden railway stuff (he had LOADS of it), that sells very well.

GirlRacer_2

I've got about 31 items listed at the moment including some sea shells, old T-shirts and shoes!!!!

Have got 11 items ending today so I'll let you know how much I make.

JesaRose

My kinder toys are doing ok - £6 bids so far

Oh how I wish I kept them all - I had hundreds of them and the Disney ones seem to sell very well. One lot of about 30 sold for over £50 for some lucky person

barshamhillbilly

I sold a half used reel of cotton thread (for mending sails and splicing ropes) last year for £4.50 + postage. I found it in my boat. I looked on a site and they only cost £2.50 new ????

Also bought an electric use monitor from Scottish Power, and sold it after we had used it for much more than we paid for it.

Bought a new tiny LCD TV from Maplin and sold it for nearly twice what I paid for it three months later .... and the aerial was missing??

People are bananas to say the least!

BHB

Nala

Oh I feel the need to start selling after reading this!

Can you tell me how you package things though? I'm assuming clothing can just go some bubble wrap and brown paper. What about breakables like china and cameras?

Thanks for any help