Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

raphanius

i can't believe this thread i have empty canon cartridges, bodyshop boxes and perfume/aftershave bottles just laying around. i have a nintendo ds with a broken hinge aswell. all capable of making me a few bob. :j

angelcakes_smw

Is much selling on eaby at the moment? Everytime OH and I list something it either doest sell or it goes for a fraction of the price all other sellers seem to get for the same item, smetimes in a worse condition than ours! I just dont get it!

Superdad

angelcakes_smw

Before I list anything I always check the completed listings for that type of item. You can get a lot of information from looking at the completed listings section.

You will sometimes find only some of the listings get sales and this is the time to go to the actual listing pages and compare the pages that sell against those that don't sell.

If you find a pattern, then follow it for your own listings. For example, you might find the listings that sell easier give a better description of the item. The description is something that you shouldn't skimp on, and remember people buy benefits NOT features.

You could put a link to the manufacturers web site where the buyer can go for more information. Make sure they cannot buy from that website though as you could find yourself on the wrong end of eBay's wrath.

Hope the above helps

regards

consultant31

Wings_of_Ambition wrote: »

I can't help but think that that's a bit.... fraudulent. It's an intentional deception for personal gain.

Glad you said this - I agree :T

ShaShaSha

Havnt had time to read the full 11 pages of this thread, but I sold my old laptop which was around 5 years old, had a broken screen, missing key, damaged casing & I had removed the harddrive for £80. People strip them down and re-sell parts, so if you are in the know you could do this yourself and make a few bob but otherwise you could sell it as it is!

Ive also sold a lot of game/dvd/cd cases!! I removed a lot of my games & dvds and kept them all in a big case wallet for space saving, so I had all the cases - which people buy to replace a lost case.

Hardback covers too! Games manuals! ill come back if I can think of more x

smiths84

stoocake wrote: »

I bought an XBox 360 for £75. It broke a few months later, and sold all the parts off individually for £75 after postage. Didn't cost me a thing to own that XBox for a few months. Glad I didn't buy one new!

I also bought a BMW 320 engine for 0.99p (probably because the seller didn't offer postage so nobody else bid), and I relisted it with postage. It sold for £160!

I've done the same with drum kits - search for large items offered near you without postage, and sell them on either with postage or at least delivery options to the buyer. I've made around £100 profit on 5 drum kits so far. Takes a bit of research so you know what you're buying, but it can pay off.

From my work in IT I've also accumulated a number of random cables (USB, IEC Power leads, KVM cables) and these sell pretty well.

CABLES!!! I have got hundreds of them accumulated by the kids over the years - big ones, small ones, long ones, short. No idea what any of them are...wondering whether I could take them all down Currys and get them to ID them for me so I can flog them on ebay....

lucystardust

I just sold a make-up item for just over £4, when its still available on the manufacturer's website for £3.50. I guess it was because my postage was about half of the postage on the original website, but it still works out that the buyer is only really saving about 50p. I was chuffed though as I got back the money which I had paid for it.

smiths84

I've found a couple of ebay sellers selling this month's lifestyle magazines like Country Living etc. They must get them on subscription, give them a quick careful read then place on ebay. These mags cost new about 3.60. If I list them for sale at, say, 2.50 -knock off 75p for postage (does anyone know a cheaper way?) and 20p for a buy it now listing) - and that's cashback for me of 1.50...AND I get to read the mag.

On the other hand I never buy mags from shops; I get all my mags delivered on 3 for a pound via quidco. So I'm actually in profit straightaway (the mag sites I use give around 4 quid cashback. I just cancel my DD with bank as soon as pound is taken. Never had any probs).

So add to that 1.50 ebay profit for each mag and its almost worth doing....

Good condition recent back issues for these sort of mags seem to fetch closer to 3 pounds...; in their plastic wrapping they fetch almost the original sale price. Perhaps I shouldn't even open them!

Anyway I've just listed 4 recent Country Lifes at 2.50. Will see what happens....

smiths84

woo-hoo - sold one Country Life already for £2.50! Just realised tho that the paypal fees are extortionate at this level. 30p odd for each sale..grrrr!

MrJuggles

Boxes. Old boxes from those gadgets and things you have.
I 95% of the time crush and throw the boxes, but it just so happened there were a few about the house that I hadn't done that with so on a whim I put them on Ebay. (they all still had the gumph and leaflets that went with it, just none of the wires and electronincs)
iPhone box - £5
Acer net book box - £7
DSI box - £5
Mobile phone box - £4

wahoo