What second hand items have you found sell well on ebay?

libra10

My husband did well selling an old Belstaff motor-cycle jacket.

It had been kept in the garage for years - he cleaned in up and sold on Ebay for around £50. There was a lot of interest.

Also an old black telephone from around the 1950s or 60s sold for a similar price. There were no workings inside the phone, but again, lots of interest.

Taranaman

A wetsuit did well for me. Got more than I paid for it new three years ago. Paid £90 something and got over £100. I think prices have gone up lots as has demand due to triathlons becoming popular.

johnwilliam_2

used car, mobiles and bikes are mostly sold on ebay. recently one of my friend brought a second hand car.

vacheron

Child travel system components do well too. I bought a Janè carseat and carrycot attachment from eBay and resold them both a year later after the little man had outgrown of them for slightly more than I bought them for.

catmiaow

The Open Uni books sell well!

enya_ntfc

Got over £100 for a load of my Nans DVDs and CDs, only 4 or 5 were left unsold out of a big box load. Got £13 for a DVD I had never heard of! Did sell these in the run up to Christmas though.

Clothes bundles sell well - usually get 20 odd quid.

Used ink cartridges also - can get £6/£7 for a few.

Make up samples/travel sizes sell well too, I guess people buy them for holidays. I get a good load, like 50 or so. Can get a good £5-£6 for something that cost me nothing.

Soap and Glory stuff sells well too, used to buy them big boxes at Christmas and sell the few things I didn't want - which then paid for the box itself. Got a tenner for the nice bag it came in as well.

CERTAIN books sell well, my Dad bought 3 fishing books for 50p each then when he'd read them I sold them for £10 each...and got comments about the cheap price... haha.

Weirdly I have noticed supermarket money off and mcdonalds vouchers seem to sell well, never sold any myself though.

Strapped

Amazed no-one's mentioned underwear or well-trashed shoes yet

(No I've never sold any but it appears to sell well judging by some previous threads on this board :eek:)

vacheron

Strapped wrote: »

Amazed no-one's mentioned underwear or well-trashed shoes yet

(No I've never sold any but it appears to sell well judging by some previous threads on this board :eek:)

I'll second that and it's something I've just noticed. I bought some Merrell trainers about a year ago and was looking for a new pair as mine were well worn (used almost every day for about a year) while searching I saw a pair identical to mine but if anything slightly more worn up with a £30 BIN. I added it to my watch list to show people this delusional idiot seller only to notice the day after that they had sold!

£30 for some £80 trainers that have had someone else's sweaty feet in them for a year! _pale_

vacheron

enya_ntfc wrote: »

Weirdly I have noticed supermarket money off and mcdonalds vouchers seem to sell well, never sold any myself though.

This is another good trick for anyone with Tesco clubcard points who trades them in at face value. I have friends who have done this for £20 off petrol etc. Better idea is to use the £20 worth of points to buy the restaurant vouchers for 4x points value (£80) and then sell them on eBay for 50-60% of their value which effectively gives you £50-60 off your petrol instead.

Edwardia

I don't eBay myself but my uncle comes over from France regularly on Eurostar, to drive back secondhand cars he has bought on eBay. He does them up and sells them in France even though thy are RHD. Some are classics and some are just popular cars which French people like and don't get many of.