Can I sell a nearly new kitchen?

warwick2001

I live in the northest of the North West (Penrith), and we drove to Maidstone (Kent) in a hired van for a kitchen we bought 2nd hand from eBay. Took about 16 hours round trip (plus loading), but totally worth it.

The kitchen cost us £500, was about 3 years old, and the lady we bought it from had the original reciepts for well over £15000. Turned out her hubby had been cheating on her with his PA (he ran his own business), she found out, dumped the loser and then decided to get a massive extension on the house, with new kitchen/utility etc. And she paid for it from the divorce awardings. Serves the schmuck right, should've kept it in his pants haha.

There is a pretty thriving market for 2nd hand kitchens, try eBay, FB Marketplace and other specialist companies. Only thing I've noticed is that although most 2nd hand kitchens include the worktops, I suspect these just get dumped and new ones are bought to fit the kitchen properly. That's what we had to do. However, the units/appliances etc were all fitted.

GDB2222

warwick2001 said:

I live in the northest of the North West (Penrith), and we drove to Maidstone (Kent) in a hired van for a kitchen we bought 2nd hand from eBay. Took about 16 hours round trip (plus loading), but totally worth it.

The kitchen cost us £500, was about 3 years old, and the lady we bought it from had the original reciepts for well over £15000. Turned out her hubby had been cheating on her with his PA (he ran his own business), she found out, dumped the loser and then decided to get a massive extension on the house, with new kitchen/utility etc. And she paid for it from the divorce awardings. Serves the schmuck right, should've kept it in his pants haha.

There is a pretty thriving market for 2nd hand kitchens, try eBay, FB Marketplace and other specialist companies. Only thing I've noticed is that although most 2nd hand kitchens include the worktops, I suspect these just get dumped and new ones are bought to fit the kitchen properly. That's what we had to do. However, the units/appliances etc were all fitted.

That’s really interesting. Especially that you were able to use all the units. Did you find that you needed to buy extra units? And how easy would that be? 

I can see that it would make sense for the sort of savings you outlined.

searchlight123

My daughter moved into a house recently in Essex. Wanted a new kitchen. Existing one was in decent condition but with dark wood doors, granite work tops and a gas hob and oven that she didn't want. Her kitchen fitter had quoted an extra £200 to uninstall and dispose of this. I told her to stick it on ebay. It sold within hours at £650. the buyers were from Birmingham and they agreed to turn up the weekend before her new kitchen was being started on to dismantle and remove. All went smoothly.

warwick2001

GDB2222 said:

warwick2001 said:

I live in the northest of the North West (Penrith), and we drove to Maidstone (Kent) in a hired van for a kitchen we bought 2nd hand from eBay. Took about 16 hours round trip (plus loading), but totally worth it.

The kitchen cost us £500, was about 3 years old, and the lady we bought it from had the original reciepts for well over £15000. Turned out her hubby had been cheating on her with his PA (he ran his own business), she found out, dumped the loser and then decided to get a massive extension on the house, with new kitchen/utility etc. And she paid for it from the divorce awardings. Serves the schmuck right, should've kept it in his pants haha.

There is a pretty thriving market for 2nd hand kitchens, try eBay, FB Marketplace and other specialist companies. Only thing I've noticed is that although most 2nd hand kitchens include the worktops, I suspect these just get dumped and new ones are bought to fit the kitchen properly. That's what we had to do. However, the units/appliances etc were all fitted.

That’s really interesting. Especially that you were able to use all the units. Did you find that you needed to buy extra units? And how easy would that be? 

I can see that it would make sense for the sort of savings you outlined.

We had a plan of which type of units we wanted i.e. 60cm full height, 100cm sink units etc. etc. and just kept searching eBay until we found a kitchen for sale that contained all the units we wanted in the style we wanted (colour wasn't as important as we knew we could've repainted them if necessary).

The kitchen we bought actually had all the units we needed, plus 2 x 100cm units that were surplus to the kitchen, so I use them in the cellar (along with a small run of the original worktop). 

As the kitchen was only approx. 3 years old I suspect you would still be able to get the same door style from Wickes, but thankfully we didn't need to. Failing that, I would have just replaced all the doors with a current style if the originals were unavailable. I'm fairly certain that the actual cabinet carcass's will be pretty universal, its only the doors that are different. So if absolutely necessary we could've bought another Wickes kitchen of a similar age off eBay and just replaced the doors. Given the money savings buying 2nd hand, I wouldn't have had a problem doing this.