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What high demand item to buy to resell for Christmas

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  • GlasgowTech
    GlasgowTech Posts: 62 Forumite
    I would recommend iphone/ipad covers and screen protectors.. Very cheap to buy wholesale & also very good mark-up. Done it last year with the screen protectors. Bought 500 worked out at 8p each sold 4 for a £1.
  • soolin
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    GlasgowTech wrote: »
    I would recommend iphone/ipad covers and screen protectors.. Very cheap to buy wholesale & also very good mark-up. Done it last year with the screen protectors. Bought 500 worked out at 8p each sold 4 for a £1.

    Do you consider that a good mark up? Pay 4x 8p = 32p and sell for £1 and then have to pay FBFs and PayPal fees?
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  • This_Year
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    GlasgowTech wrote: »
    I would recommend iphone/ipad covers and screen protectors.. Very cheap to buy wholesale & also very good mark-up. Done it last year with the screen protectors. Bought 500 worked out at 8p each sold 4 for a £1.

    By my calculations you probably took a loss on each 4 you sold. Unless you charged postage of course - but still a lot of work for peanuts.
  • campdave
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    The poster didnt say he sold them on ebay, maybe he sold them at a market or in a shop.
  • This_Year
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    campdave wrote: »
    The poster didnt say he sold them on ebay, maybe he sold them at a market or in a shop.

    True. I do tend to have my eBay head on when I'm posting on here :)
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    Lucy the dog.

    Retails at £30, but unavailable everywhere, selling for around £80 on ebay.

    Don't ask me how I know.
  • RFW
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    ilikethesimpsons wrote: »
    Lucy the dog.

    Retails at £30, but unavailable everywhere, selling for around £80 on ebay.

    Don't ask me how I know.
    Presumably OP wants items that may be available somewhere.

    I've heard Brussel sprouts are going to be in high demand come Christmas, there were loads in Morrison's earlier.
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  • soolin
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    RFW wrote: »
    Presumably OP wants items that may be available somewhere.

    I've heard Brussel sprouts are going to be in high demand come Christmas, there were loads in Morrison's earlier.

    I remember the great Brussell sprout disaster- Christmas Eve 2009 where there was not one to be had and people were complaining it had completely ruined their Christmas and their children were 'gutted' :rotfl:
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  • This_Year
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    RFW wrote: »
    Presumably OP wants items that may be available somewhere.

    I've heard Brussel sprouts are going to be in high demand come Christmas, there were loads in Morrison's earlier.

    yum! actually one of my favourite veg. :D
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