Best way to trade in old appliances

RockTheShack

Hi,

I'm getting a new kitchen and would like to swap my existing free standing appliances for integrated ones. The old appliances are all in good working order and are decent models although I don't know how old they are as they came with the property. We're getting the kitchen through an independent fitter so we're sourcing the appliances direct.

Does anyone have any advice on the best way to maximise money back for them based on experience? My first thoughts were to advertise on gumtree / facebook although I can imagine that being a hassle with people potentially messing us around etc, are there any appliance suppliers that offer a decent trade-in?

thanks!

Davesnave

One of the disadvantages of having an independent fitter may be that you don't get the discount from the kitchen company, who can typically beat the likes of AO because of their buying power and the ability to offset the cost of deals against profit on the units.

You could talk to appliance suppliers locally, but if you think it's a hassle selling-on old ones, what makes you think they will have a ready market and be able to offer you a cracking deal? Chances are, if they offer part-exchange at all, they'll offload stuff to a local secondhand shop who'll not pay a good price for items that may well need parts, PAT testing etc.

I've bought/sold appliances and similar things on eBay etc. You may get the odd nutter, true, but I've had only one in something like 30 transactions and he was just unable to find a way to carry a steel girder 200miles legally in his small van!

RockTheShack

thanks, thats a good point on the local appliance dealers, I was thinking more if any of the larger appliance suppliers have trade in deals. The AO website says they offer trade-in on appliances but it isn't clear if this is on all models or just deals on specific products.

Davesnave

I would ring and ask. Sometimes it's easier to get a deal using a personal approach. Then see what local independents can do.

I was going to use AO until our chosen kitchen company said they would comfortably beat whatever price AO gave us. We had to use the company's fitter to get any deal with them at all, though, as they wouldn't do supply-only.