Are ebay and the like worth it?

Amatheya81

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Profit or revenue?


You will certainly be able to sell items on eBay for more than the cost of listing and postage. Now if it is worth selling items you paid £100 for got some use out of and can now sell on for £30 is up to you to decide.

If you are thinking of doing it as a business rather than just to get rid of some possessions, ie you'll buy thing explicitly to sell on ebay, they again you can make a profit but you need to do your research on average sale prices, demand and your own sourcing abilities.

When I said I'd sold around 40 items and made £160 profit I meant it. I'm self emplayed and know how to work out profit and revenue. Just becouse you list a item free for 99p doesn't mean it will sell for 99p. In fact I find that listing small items for 99p often earns more profit that listing for the price you think its worth when you conssider fees etc. But it does depend what your selling. If you're going to buy to sell you need to know your market.

HENDRYBERG

I always fail on eBay.

Recently got my mum a kindle so must have at least 300 books I could flog. But that Market seems to be dead.

Same as DVDs.

You can still make a few extra pennies.

But I want big cash ha ha

InsideInsurance

Amatheya81 wrote: »

When I said I'd sold around 40 items and made £160 profit I meant it. I'm self emplayed and know how to work out profit and revenue. Just becouse you list a item free for 99p doesn't mean it will sell for 99p.

Never said or thought to the contrary

A lot will sell their personal items and claim a "profit" was made but really just mean they got revenue as they bought the CD new 10 years ago for £8 and have sold it today for £3 - so say its £3 profit.

It is fairly different to use ebay to flog your old stuff you dont want and going out to buy stock of items to sell via it.

thegirlintheattic

Well I've put some of my textbooks on Amazon and will promote them on student sites so hopefully get some interest. If not most will get about half their used value on the Amazon Trade-In, whilst I would prefer cash if they have not sold by X-mas I'll just trade them in for vouchers.

Made a find of a signed book on my bookshelf so have my fingers crossed some fans will buy that.

I originally was thinking of selling some of my electronics but when I realised I would get less than £50 for a computer, gave up that idea! At least for books, if they sell, I will be getting back about half their retail value.

Thanks for all the advice, hope I have some luck.

80schild

I'm skint at the moment so am ebaying everything I no longer need; like books or kids clothes which I would normally just give away. Selling for about 50p-£2.00 each but there is that many of them I have made about £50 so far-its taking ages in terms of listing and posting but I am hoping to sell enough to pay for the MOT on the car! I do it every summer as the last quarter of the year is really expensive for us. Last year I sold enough to pay for the MOT and one child's xmas presents!

kayandy_2

try musicmagpie for cds dvds i recently sold all my old ons on there nd got 150 there were bout 200 altogether though so its not much but better than i wouldhave gotten anywere else as tried ebay first.. you get your money in your bank within 4 weeks hope this helps

lincroft1710

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Made a find of a signed book on my bookshelf so have my fingers crossed some fans will buy that.

I've got several, all bought from eBay/charity/2nd hand bookshops for no extra money than an unsigned copies.

soolin

lincroft1710 wrote: »

I've got several, all bought from eBay/charity/2nd hand bookshops for no extra money than an unsigned copies.

On the same topic Terry Pratchett always says his unsigned books are more vaulable than his signed ones as there are less of them!