Ebay v Vinted - you'll be surprised what sells

JW77

An eBay update from MSE

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/selling-on-ebay/?utm_source=MSE_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=01-Oct-24-939fd8e25984eeb9c72-66fc2ad8b8706072fe60abac3f95cc7a&source=CRM-MSETIP-939fd8e25984eeb9c72&utm_campaign=nt-oneliners-one&utm_content=20#n2k-3

I think the oddest thing I sold a while back was a collection of old toy catalogues. I kind of wish I'd kept my Star Trek books now. But hey, things change.

But the article states people are selling corks & the cardboard tube of loo rolls so who knows!

I do tend to think before selling tho, how much of my time is it worth to photograph, list etc. Some stuff I've sold on FB, just be aware people tend to haggle at the door and there's one or 2 'possible' transaction scams.

poppy123456

With Vinted no one comes to your door, you post the items you sell to them. I've never used it myself but know people that do use it a lot. My elder daughter sold a lot of my grandchildren's clothes and made over £1,500. It went towards Christmas that year for the children.

chiarieds

With ebay we sold thousands of books online over a period of about 10 years; admittedly this was last 6 years ago. With all the items we sold, I'd say it's (still) worth researching to see what anyone else may be selling a similar item for, take good photographs, as they really help, & describe the item(s) well.

We only posted items out, but always said we'd accept returns for any reason. This was of course as we were running a business. We only ever had one customer wanting to return a book, a first edition, as they were disconcerted that the pages were cream (as it actually was published). We also only had 3 people saying they hadn't received their books, & as these happened to be just some new paperbacks that we'd bought in, we replaced them. They were the only 'problems' we encountered.

Oh, the things I regret selling, mainly from our shop, thinking we'd buy in another copy one day! In general I'd say ebay is a safe platform, but perhaps avoid local collection, just post it.

The oddest thing I ever sold was the Duke of Albany's pilch knickers, but not on ebay. We also had an enormous petticoat that had belonged to Queen Victoria (oh did that take me a long time to starch & iron). It had been bequeathed by Queen Victoria to one of her ladies-in-waiting. I used to deal in linen & lace before venturing into the world of antiquarian & secondhand books.

Autism_at_40

Toilet rolls and corks are for those crafters out there..

You don't have to choose the collect in person service if you don't want to.

I got banned from Vinted, they said it was only for 30 days, but they wouldn't even tell me why, I ended up deleting it. Plus, I didn't like the fact that you couldn't choose the courier service - my sister used it a lot though.

I think Ebay was good when it first started out (I've been using it for almost 20 years), but then the fees and rules got so bad that I stopped using it.

When they made it free to list clothes, I found it a lot easier to use and sold some things.

Now it's free to sell everything, I think I might use it more. I think it's good if you aren't in a hurry to sell stuff, just leave it and see what happens.

But there are other things out there, if you have a bunch of books you can sell them to ziffit.

I must admit though, I do tend to give more to charity shops (I gave a ton of crafting stuff to Age UK for their craft sessions), as I do believe that giving is good karma or whatever, especially if you wouldn't get much for something on Ebay.