Selling stuff - how

purplevamp

Bank_buster wrote: »

If using PayPal they charge you to withdraw your own money if the balance is below £50!!

marliepanda wrote: »

Is this with new accounts? I don't get charged to withdraw my money, regardless of how much I have. I only have a personal account.

Paypal don't charge anymore for under £50 and the money is usually in your bank a/c within 2 hours.

Forward_thinking

Thanks so much everyone. I think I have decided to give gumtree and Facebook a go first. I did start putting stuff on ebay but was getting charged 20p an item. So I've lost money already.

Just spent the last half hour trying to find my local facebook page. I only found one but it seems pretty inactive. Am I doing something wrong! How does facebook work? Thanks!

pickle_me

LannieDuck wrote: »

With the toys you could take a table at an NCT sale.

Not just toys. I've sold at three NCT sales, mostly clothes but books and toys too. Each time I made between £90-145 profit (so that's after paying for the table). I can't recommend them highly enough. It's a great way to get rid of a lot of stuff in one morning, plus it's fun and I always liked chatting to the buyers. I sold a mountain of baby clothes. The sales are well-publicised and always attract lots of customers, and certainly the ones I went to were very well-organised. They will also sell large items such as prams and cots for a small additional fee.

Have a look here and see if there's one local to you:

https://www.nct.org.uk/branches/events/nearly-new-sales

too_much_debt

Netmums have a selling page, you need to register for your area and you can list items.

solvencyseeker

NCT sales were great for me when the children were younger. Takes a bit of time to prepare and label things but really well worth the effort (wish I had bought more things at them but found out about them too late). Car boots too - if you can find a friend to help and OH will look after the children.

I'm doing well selling on eBay now but we have some good higher value things to sell, and my children are adults! It does take up quite a lot of time. Have learned from experience that you need to be really carefull about postage and packaging costs. I could do with some decent scales to weigh things.

Definitely sort through things before you give them away. We Freecycle anything that doesn't sell. There are a lot of folks out there very grateful for clothing etc.

hettiecarro

Bit thick - but what is NCT?

solvencyseeker

There's no such thing as a daft question!

NCT is National Childbirth Trust - they support mums and families. In our area they have drop in play group sessions and have a support network for new mums.

They also do monthly(?) sales of equipment, clothing and toys. If you want to sell you need to register, prepare and label you items (with a seller number and price). In our area you just drop off all your items in the morning and then collect any unsold items later in the day. The NCT group do all the rest.

I sold loads of things this way and wish I had known about them when I was buying baby stuff.

pickle_me

solvencyseeker wrote: »

NCT is National Childbirth Trust - they support mums and families. In our area they have drop in play group sessions and have a support network for new mums.

They also do monthly(?) sales of equipment, clothing and toys. If you want to sell you need to register, prepare and label you items (with a seller number and price). In our area you just drop off all your items in the morning and then collect any unsold items later in the day. The NCT group do all the rest.

Not all NCT sales run this way. At the ones I went to you simply hire a table and the rest is up to you. I sorted my stuff into different boxes, big enough for people to rummage in, labelled according to age (0-6 months, 6-12 months etc). I didn't price up anything in advance - just gave people a price when they asked to buy something. Much less work than doing it all in advance! I wouldn't want anyone put off by thinking they had to spend hours preparing what they had to sell