Selling to raise extra money

Azzablags

Hi everyone, long time lurker first time poster. After moving house, then being suspended from work and losing my bonus I'm finding money very tight at the moment. Was thinking of having a bit of a clearance to raise some money. What I wanted to ask about is peoples opinions on the best way to sell stuff. Do You use ebay to hopefully sell for a higher price, places like Facebook selling sites so you get to name a price and have local pick up etc or do you use places lie music magpie which give you a price that you can either accepy or not.

Tixy

What type of things are you wanting to sell?

People generally recommend different mediums for different items.

Azzablags

Mainly old computer games/books/trading cards for now

retropanda

i use facebook to sell now more than ebay, using facebook, try typing in your town/area and buy sell it might come up with a few pages, it buysellyorkshire, facebay south lanarkshire, lincoln buy sell page

rockm87

I would avoid music magpie like the plague. They may be ok for cds, but hubby recently got rid of his xbox using them. After months of them changing their price, they eventually gave him £13 for his xbox 360 and games. Absolutely appalling!!!

poppasmurf_bewdley

I've sold various caravan accessories and a shower screen which I no longer require over the past few months.

I've had no success whatsever on five Facebook selling sites in my area. I've had some success with Gumtree, but everything I've put on eBay has sold.

The only problem with eBay is the high cost, and they rip you off even more if your buyer pays by Paypal, so I always do a cash on collection for larger items.