How much for a cooker

virgin_moneysaver

The buyers of our property have made it known that they may be interested in buying the cooker as we only have an electric point in the kitchen & it's gonna cause too much upheaval to run a gas fitting - the cooker is a Belling & cost £500 just under 3 years ago - what sort of price would you experienced house movers say would be a fair price - this is all a bit new to me as we have only moved once, 12 years ago - NEVER AGAIN!

theGrinch

well you could say that the cooker will last 10 years so thats £50 a year (on £500). 7 years left 7 x £50 = £350. Its a depreciation cal but something most companies use. the other option is to determine what you consider a fair price.

Debt_Free_Chick

At the end of the day, it's second hand. Look in your local paper and see how much they go for. Or do you have a shop locally that sells second hand, where you can price check.

I think you'll be very disappointed at how little they fetch, so don't get your hopes up for a good price. Personally, I think £350 is over the top.

nik-nik_2

We completed buying last Thursday, the vendors had a cooker, a dishwasher and washing machine all 3-4 years old. They said they would sell the very cheap as they had no room in their rented accomodation, we offered £350 and would have risen to £500 but they didn't want to budge from £1000. So we told them to stick it and bought our three new items for £909 including warranties and deliveries. I thought £100 per item was generous as I would have got similar from the Friday-Ad for £50ish. I may be cheap, but all my friends and family agreed my idea of cheap was a heck of a lot more realistic than theirs

dougk_2

Depending on the type of cooker you want , brand new ones can be bought for as little as £139. So maybe they would be better off buying a brand new cheaper basic cooker to start with knowing it will be under warranty etc.
Thats the way I would see it.

mrcow

The question you need to ask yourself is whether you actually want the cooker or not.

What are you going to cook on after you move? Is there any room in your new place for your old cooker?

If not, then personally I think that any more then £50 for someone elses old cooker is cheeky.

virgin_moneysaver

as the new place is going to be rewired before we get in I was going to have an electric point put in, & there's already gas there, so it makes no odds to me, I was just trying to be accomodating to the buyers & only want to charge them what's fair - I would have just bought a cheapo gas cooker, forgot the electric point, as next year the kitchen is being revamped as part of the new extension anyway

dougk_2

Remember if you are taking your cooker or connecting a gas one to have it installed by somebody corgi registered. I know its only a byonet fitting plug, however if something goes wrong your house insuarnce may not pay out (say if the house caught fire due to a gas leak) if you cannot prove it was connected by an approved fitter.

loanranger_4

check also on ebay. There is little demand for second hand goods these days.

Keep our eye on the bigger picture, tell the vendors what it cost and how old it is and ask them to make you an offer, you may be pleasantly suprised !

mrcow

loanranger wrote:

Keep our eye on the bigger picture, tell the vendors what it cost and how old it is and ask them to make you an offer, you may be pleasantly suprised !

Durr....I didn't even think of that. It's a much better idea than mine. It leaves the ball in their court, and you can always say "no" if they offer you a stupidly low price.

fitterastra

£100 sounds fair to me