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Teeniepops

Just wondering what people have the most success with on eBay?

I ask because some things I list which I imagine to be popular don't sell, whilst things I'm not sure would sell, I could sell time and time again.

tigercubx

Vintage games eg Pokemon game boy games - I got about £40 for four games lol. I tried selling bundles of my little boys old clothes and got 99p most times, but his Adidas stuff sold for almost as much as I paid for it

lvm

Depends on lots and lots and lots of things!!

What's your feedback like?
Are you selling your old stuff?
Are you buying stuff to sell?
How good are your listing designs? Post some here...
How do your prices compare to others?
How many of the product are available to buy?
Do you research items before listing?
What are your postage costs/how do they compare?

No-one is going to come here and tell you "I make a £1k a month profit selling x, y and z" (no-one in their right mind anyway!)

Teeniepops

lvm wrote: »

Depends on lots and lots and lots of things!!

What's your feedback like?
Are you selling your old stuff?
Are you buying stuff to sell?
How good are your listing designs? Post some here...
How do your prices compare to others?
How many of the product are available to buy?
Do you research items before listing?
What are your postage costs/how do they compare?

No-one is going to come here and tell you "I make a £1k a month profit selling x, y and z" (no-one in their right mind anyway!)

100% feedback. Free P&P and always research items and sell for less than average and in the right categories. I don't do it as a business - just somewhere to sell items I don't need and only things in good nick.

I wasn't looking for a recipe to make £1000s. I was just curious as to what others find sell well for them simply because sometimes my listing success is opposite to what I expected.

An example, I recently listed a brand new silver bracelet for 60% RRP and it didn't sell (a very popular type of bracelet too), but a freebie purse I got with a handbag that wasn't much cop sold with loads of bids.

Was just curious really.

quinechinoise

Radiohead CDs, a snowglobe, magazines, old tights, an OOP perfume in a battered box. Really random stuff, basically.

Ebayers seems to crave second-hand novelties over brand new or premium brand items. I think the perfume went for more than an iPod (that I sold, second-hand). And brand new clothing apparently isn't as desirable as old magazines.

There truly is a buyer for almost everything - except the stuff you think could be re-gifted or returned to store. Really do re-gift or return to store instead of listing on Ebay because it'll get it out your home faster and be more worthwhile!

PhoenixDF

Information tends to sell pretty well in ebay in my experience. For example, about 4 years ago I wrote an Ebook of about 40 pages long with diagrams etc about people starting to learn how to use a computer and the internet.

I wrote it in very basic english so anyone from 6+ could understand it and I was selling it for £3.99 and it was very popular for a while but i couldn't be bothered to keep it updated etc so stopped selling it in the end as it only made an extra £20 or so a week

googler

Not sold enough of any one type of item to judge which sells better than others, but agree that old curiosity-type items seem to go well.

Sellotape used to be marketed in a two-part metal tin, in the 1950s and 1960s - one had been in my parents' house for many years, and was the repository for buttons, pins and other odds n ends. With over 20 bids, sold to someone in New Zealand for almost a tenner......

foxgloves

I've sold vintage stuff, costume jewelley, books, CDs, dvds, empty perfume bottles, music books, lots of different random things, but the best-selling stuff has been clothes. We've lost a lot of weight over the last couple of years so I listed lots of clothes....nothing particularly designer-y, mostly decent high street stuff i.e M&S, Monsoon, Evans, Debenhams, Elvi, etc, & we must have made around £300+. Not bad when it's for stuff we can no longer wear. Some of the items attracted 10+ watchers & most were bid up from my original listing prices, some things by a surprisingly decent amount.

CWSmith

I had my best and most astonishing success with a pile of jigsaws! Couldn't believe how popular they were.

Other than that, my second best successes were with M&S clothing, sizes 14 and 16 (stuff that had belonged to my mother and was in perfect condition - some of it unworn).

jarthurs

Old board games can be quite sought after, I picked up an original 1974 'Planet of the Apes' board game for 25p at a boot sale (in pristine condition). It sold for £37 on eBay.

Regards,
Jason.

MikeR71

Kids items have been great for me.

But a lot depends on who wants what at the time you flog yours. You may auction something for weeks without luck, but then sell the same item after a day on another auction occasion.