third January 2023
The quickest option to increase some money and assist the setting is to promote that pile of stuff you’ve been that means to for ages. Schedule a night the place you add these pics you took in your cellphone and upcycle your issues on the similar time.
Promoting suggestions:
Put apart an hour to promote/add (Sundays are good for listings, as statistically it’s when most individuals are casually searching on the couch – or if utilizing eBay, you possibly can schedule your itemizing on eBay to complete on a Sunday) and add a number of gadgets directly. Pure daylight is usually higher for pictures and exhibiting flaws.
Take into account seasonality. It pays to consider what persons are serious about – coats promote higher in Autumn/winter than they do in summer time, as an illustration.
You’d be stunned what sells. I as soon as offered an outdated (working) Gameboy from the 90s for £25 to a collector on eBay. It was outdated, not the cleanest and didn’t have any use to us any extra – win win!
Clearly, it goes with out saying all of this ought to be declared as additional revenue to HMRC (there’s, nonetheless, a person tax free ‘buying and selling allowance’ of £1,000).
The place to promote:
GOOD FOR: Excessive avenue trend
You’ll be able to promote designer garments as nicely however it undoubtedly appears to excel at promoting decrease priced excessive avenue items – you possibly can promote bundles and mix delivery if somebody buys a couple of merchandise, too. The very best bit? No itemizing or promoting charges.
GOOD FOR: Designer trend
It has been some time since I’ve offered something right here, however the advantage of designer trend is that if it’s a well-liked model, it is going to maintain its worth. Vestiaire is utilized by the style group, so that you’re extra more likely to promote much less well-known names (i.e., manufacturers I really like like Manu Atelier) than you’re at a automotive boot or eBay. BUT they do take round 14% fee.
GOOD FOR: Gadgets in good to wonderful situation
It’s nice for promoting garments that don’t match/you now not put on however primarily when there isn’t an excessive amount of put on and tear to them (I personally discover that eBay consumers are a bit extra pernickety concerning the situation).
GOOD FOR: Books
A bit like Music Magpie however for all these piles of books you’ve learn however have a necessity to carry onto (it does occur!). It’s a bit hit and miss and we discovered a number of youngsters books don’t maintain a lot worth (so ours go to charity) however often a shock £5.70 might be supplied! The app is tremendous simple – you simply scan the barcode and when you could have 10 gadgets or extra (that appears to be the minimal they settle for – 10 gadgets or £10 worth) you possibly can both arrnage a set (belief me, books get heavy!) or drop off at a parcel level.
GOOD FOR: Furnishings
We promote so much on Gumtree, typically outdated furnishings and gadgets that must be collected. Chris offered some digicam lenses too just lately, however it’s vital to recollect to satisfy somebody in daylight and never at your own home tackle, particularly while you’re promoting costlier gadgets.
CeX (UK.webuy.com)
GOOD FOR: Electricals and DVDs.
I offered my Apple Mac laptop computer right here (ensure you wipe it earlier than taking it in!), and it’s additionally good for promoting outdated iPhones. Enjoyable truth: we watched all the collection of Recreation Of Thrones by shopping for collection one on DVD, then saved exchanging it for the following collection till we’d caught up – cheaper than a Sky subscription!
Automotive boot gross sales
GOOD FOR: Every part else. All of your bric-a-brac, lonely mugs, that picture body you by accident ordered within the fallacious dimension, and the sneakers you suppose are in too unhealthy a state to promote. Guide a date prematurely, so you could have a spotlight, in any other case you’ll have hordes of stuff simply ready indefinitely (and belief me, when you begin gathering, you would possibly flip a bit Marie Kondo and the promote pile will simply continue to grow). Try Carbootsales.org to discover a sale close to you.
The place to donate:
If you happen to’d moderately donate listed below are a number of locations I like to recommend which are doing wonderful issues (primarily London primarily based):
Child gadgets: @pramdepot or @littlevillagehq
Interiors: @furnishingfutures
Garments: @smartworkscharity @shelterkingscross
Mixture of all the pieces: @oxfamgb @northlondonhospice
Or you possibly can click on the charity possibility on Vinted and eBay so the cash you make goes immediately to assist others (I’ve a charity led eBay store).