Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

Sui_Generis

property.advert wrote: »

you may get the shop to take them off your hands for £35/40. Easy money if you have the time.

They cost that much new in Ryman's in the local High St.

property.advert

Sui_Generis wrote: »

They cost that much new in Ryman's in the local High St.

We're not talking Ryman quality (or crap). People always want nice office computer chairs but they will never pay for them. They don't trust ebay or the internet as they cannot see the product. You take away that fear and solve their problem of delivery.

I spent some months looking at chairs and all the various scams and fraudulent ebay bidders jacking up their own prices and I sussed out the different quality of leathers and split leather etc. Most is plastic leather, real crap you would not want in your house but that is what people will pay, around £50. You give them retail £100-200 (sometimes more) chairs for £50. Some actually walk out of your store.

A good idea is to hunt down where people like Staples, who have some good mid range chairs (and some crap), pass on their returns to and their minor defects to. It isn't worth sending them back to the manufacturer so they just shift them out job lots and for very little money. I am not at the source yet but near and £20 a chair is about the inward price for a brand new £100/130 chair. £179/199 chairs a little more.

The returns market is a good one and if you can find somewhere to shift them on in bulk, then you can be in and out in no time. The footwork and slog is in getting the right product. Chairs at around £50 sell.

caela_2

Lol this is a great thread! I'm due to put a whole bunch of things on ebay now and hate the initial hassle, but do love the results! The best I did was selling my old size 22 clothes after I lost a couple stone, they went like crazy cos they're harder to get in the shops I guess. I also sold some shoes I bought for more than I bought them for... which was great lol. They were damn nice shoes though haha. Tried to sell a jar of Welsh air once, but that didn't work although it was quite fun writing the advert!

If you're selling broken psps and the like, I think people are buying them for parts- there's a lot you can do with the lazers as they're quite powerful. Also some mobile phones you may have with a cracked screen can be quite easily and cheaply repaired if you know how so they may sell quite well. I would advise before selling any broken mobile, to check exactly what the fault is. New casing can be bought on ebay for very cheap and it might be worth just fixing it yourself and selling it as working. If you've got a nice phone that's really scratched up, just buy a new case and check how easy it is to fit first. You might find you can do it up to looking like brand new and sell it for a lot more.

As for the tax discs, I have no idea why those sell lol it's always seemed strange to me! I always shred up my old discs though, just to be safe.

I think there are also good buying times on ebay, where things are popular for some reason. I have been sucessful selling clothes in the past and then advertised some more at a new time to have fairly little interest at all, which really surprised me seeing how the last lot went. It can be a bit hit or miss. Always make sure your item comes up in results as well, since sometimes people just can't find what you've advertised.

caela_2

Oooh just remember another weird thing I sold was my sony ericsson box with manuals and accessories but no phone cos it was stolen. It's great to sell to people who have the phone but no box, I got nearly £5 for it!

Hannah_10

A tip: The maternity wear is sizes 18 and 20 is hotly fought over. I keep getting outbid! :mad:

If you've got any lurking in the cupboard now is a great time to list it because demand's clearly higher than supply!

mandragora_2

BeckyLH01 wrote: »

I'm absolutely loving this thread and have been trawling through it for the past 2 days! It's definitely inspired me to declutter and I currently have 15 items for sale, these include:

2 x Radley bags

An empty bottle of perfume with a bid on it!

A pair of my OHs used Levi jeans

Some Radley sunglasses

3 pairs of shoes/boots

A Canon digital camera with a broken LCD

A broken iPod

A dog crate

A sealed bottle of perfume I don't like anymore

An audio book

A cat bed

The Radley bags are going for £74 each at the moment and a few of the other items have bids on them so going well so far! I'm hoping to get about £3-350

I once bought a tatty Radley bag in a charity shop for £6 - it was big enough to hold a laptop and looked like an old school satchel - complete with ink stains! It sold for £65 to a teacher - I threw in some freebie reward stickers I had kicking around, and she was delighted. I went on to buy a brand new, big and totally lovely Radley bag with the proceeds & £20 birthday money from my mum, as our local dept store was having a 25% off sale - everything in store reduced - so I was quite happy with that sequence of deals!!:rotfl:

Frijj

Don't know if this has been posted before but I removed a lot of my old washing machine parts and sold them on ebay after the engineer couldn't fix the broken drum.
Sold the door (two bolts to undo to take off) £10
timer unit £20
motor £20
and didn't sell some other bits but still made £50 of a broken washing machine fit for the tip. Still took the shell to the tip though, perhaps I should have taken that to the scrap man to weigh in

lornz23

Right after reading all these good ideas I am going to go through all my stuff that I have shoved under my bed and sell it on ebay via my iphone app which seems much quicker. I will let you know how I get on!

curlytop12

am now waiting for a bid on my Dale Winton autograph! well,you never know!????

Vampy

This thread made me realise I still have mobile phones that I haven't used in years and a broken ipod...I think I'll start putting stuff in one of my plastic crates and start ebaying again