silly things you've given a try selling

Angie74

I'm going to put my broken GHDs on there because apparently people pay £20+ for them. They don't work at all. They've been in the box under the bed for 7 years, I might as well see if someone else wants to buy them. If not, I've not lost anything. Also a broken LCD tv/monitor, it may or may not sell, but it's worth a try as I've seen some others sell. I'm not bothered how much that goes for, as it's mainly to get it out of the way Otherwise it's going in the back yard with the other broken tv :P

Mindless_Clone

forgotmyname wrote: »

Maybe some sexy stockings next time, Shaving the legs 1st may have helped :rotfl:

Sorry but if i were a woman i would be scared in case the buyer was a nut job.
Although its quite possible the buyer was some rich company director, Happily married with several kids.

Its the thought though...

I certainly wouldn't be putting a return address on them!

Angie74 wrote: »

I'm going to put my broken GHDs on there because apparently people pay £20+ for them. They don't work at all. They've been in the box under the bed for 7 years, I might as well see if someone else wants to buy them. If not, I've not lost anything. Also a broken LCD tv/monitor, it may or may not sell, but it's worth a try as I've seen some others sell. I'm not bothered how much that goes for, as it's mainly to get it out of the way Otherwise it's going in the back yard with the other broken tv :P

Speaking of broken things, my brother recently bought a broken fridge freezer off ebay - big American style one - for about £60. Got it home, pressed the appropriate buttons and took it out of demo mode, which was the only thing that was wrong with it. Works beautifully and a total bargain! I've told him to list his old one on ebay for spares or repair and see what he gets for it.

Angie74

Mindless_Clone wrote: »

Speaking of broken things, my brother recently bought a broken fridge freezer off ebay - big American style one - for about £60. Got it home, pressed the appropriate buttons and took it out of demo mode, which was the only thing that was wrong with it. Works beautifully and a total bargain! I've told him to list his old one on ebay for spares or repair and see what he gets for it.

If you know what you're doing, I bet you can pick up some right bargains on ebay. On the other hand, if you don't know what you're doing, it's a good way of getting a bit of money for something you're never going to use again. Would cost me more to get them fixed than it would to buy new ones I would imagine.

Pollyp

I once sold an old magazine on ebay. It's amazing the things people will buy.

Mindless_Clone

Angie74 wrote: »

If you know what you're doing, I bet you can pick up some right bargains on ebay. On the other hand, if you don't know what you're doing, it's a good way of getting a bit of money for something you're never going to use again. Would cost me more to get them fixed than it would to buy new ones I would imagine.

Yep, probably would. I was actually discussing this with my brother and we sort of hatched a pipe dream to buy up broken electrical items, fix them and sell them on as used but working. He's an electrician (the small electrical component type) so would have no trouble fixing stuff. He even mended my dishwasher and my washing machine in the past so all in all saved us all a fortune.
Maybe one day.

HelenDaveKids

Had an extension and flogged the empty sand bags. All sold! Bloke had a personal courier to collect too (as i did buyer to collect)

One bloke came for a broken washing machine, had broken ariel next to bin (ready for skip) and he bought it off me too.

Saying that I brought a camera as I had exactly the same and just wanted it for screen. So whats rubbish for one was a brill buy for someone else.