Ebay

We do a bit of antique selling, a couple of big fairs every year, so we trawl the unconsidered boxes under the tables at auction sales. Some things have more value being sold online than over the stall.

I bought a box of children's sewing machines for £50 and sold them individually for well over £200, including one that went for £115. DH had similar luck with a box of 50 pottery gingerbeer bottles.

However the winner is DD who bought a box of rusty bits of metal that were sold as a Victorian sock knitter. She paid £10. She then restored it and got it in working order, including buying new needles and other small bits and sold it online for £800.

DH has sold some collectibles that DS1 bought while living in Japan. When he came home they went in our roof, out of sight. When we asked him what he wanted to do with them, he said 'Take them to the dump'.

DH has been quietly ebaying them and has, so far, made £1500 for DS.

I used to buy a lot of books on e-bay but then had a falling out with them. Obviously losing my custom didn't bankrupt them.
I recently had another look at the books but there is no information given about the book 's content or did I miss something.

My best ever sale on eBay was a torch from the 1948 Olympics. My father had appropriated it after an ad campaign many years ago. When the 2012 Olympics were under way and interest was at it's height I tried putting it on eBay and sold it to a collector in Sweden for £700.

I always look on eBay for books. All sorts of obscure titles pop up, often for less than a fiver.

MerylStreep

BlueBelle
I was going to point that out but there’s only so many times you can repeat yourself on here, isn’t there.

Oh really?

BlueBelle
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Your bank details are out there every time you make an online purchase J52 unless you don’t shop online ever

Yes I know, but I only use my credit card for on line purchases, which has some protection and if hacked doesn’t give access to any other accounts.
I’m very aware that I may be being over cautious. I prefer to be.

Your bank details are out there every time you make an online purchase J52 unless you don’t shop online ever

I ve been E baying for years my most exciting moment was a teapot I bought for my Nan in HK in the late 60 s
It was quite plain a beige colour quite a thick pot it was hexangular with about 5 black Chinese characters going down on one side you really wouldn’t look twice at it Nan had been long long gone and it had been sitting in my cupboard unused and unloved for years one day as a whim I put it on eBay and thought no more about it then on the last day there was a flurry and up it went to £135 I was gob smacked it would have only cost me pence in HK market

I e bayed for some years after an antique dealer friend told me about it. Mostly to get rid of stuff that I had after clearing parents houses.
Recently they stopped using PayPal as an interim payment method. Now payment has to be make directly to a Bank current account. I’m not comfortable with my bank details being out there.

My latest bargain this week was a brand new Boden dress, complete with tags for less than half the price it retails on the Boden website.

However, I have never thought of selling. My neighbour the Ebay Queen trawls car boot sales and charity shops and makes a very good living reselling items on Ebay. She bought a pair of shoes in a charity shop for £4 and sold them for over £40.
I have been out shopping with her on a number of occasions, she is a master of her art!

I'm an avid reader and buy all my books on Ebay for anything between 99p and £2.00. They are pre-read, but are mostly in perfect condition and when I have finished with them I pass them on to my sister and then they go to charity shops.
I used to sell quite a lot on Ebay, but now mostly use FB Marketplace as it's free and the buyer collects. Ebay's fees were quite reasonable when I first started selling with them, but they have increased considerably and together with the Paypal fees, it now knocks quite a lot off your profits.

GagaJo
I’ve been watching Vinted since it came along. It’s getting some bad press now.
For someone who doesn’t mind trawling through tons of stuff, the Oxfam site can throw up some bargains.

Maw So pleased you are enjoying selling your items it certainly is addictive I have used E-Bay for years.
Just this week I have won a linen Monsoon dress/M&S linen pants & Chambray summer dress all for my holiday in June all have new labels and cost me £21 for everything I'm so pleased with myself
Good luck with your sales.

I like selling on FB now although go to Ebay if stuff doesn't sell within a month or so. FB is free AND people come to collect the stuff, so it's win win as far as I'm concerned.

I love selling stuff because it's recycling too.

There is a new site, Vinted, that is supposedly also free which I haven't checked out yet.

When I downsized I had such fun selling stuff on EBay. The excitement of those final bids!?

A friend of mine loved showing me the things she had “won” on EBay. ?

It’s all such a thrill!