third January 2023
The quickest technique to increase some money and assist the atmosphere is to promote that pile of stuff you’ve been which 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 ideas:
Put apart an hour to promote/add (Sundays are good for listings, as statistically it’s when most individuals are casually looking on the couch – or if utilizing eBay, you may schedule your itemizing on eBay to complete on a Sunday) and add a number of gadgets directly. Pure daylight is usually higher for images and displaying flaws.
Contemplate seasonality. It pays to consider what persons are enthusiastic about – coats promote higher in Autumn/winter than they do in summer time, as an example.
You’d be shocked 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 I as soon as offered an outdated (working) Gameboy from the 90s for £25 to a collector on eBay. It was outdated, not the cleanest and didn’t have any use to us any extra – win win!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 must be declared as further revenue to HMRC (there’s, nonetheless, a person tax free ‘buying and selling allowance’ of £1,000).
The place to promote:
GOOD FOR: Excessive road vogue
You’ll be able to promote designer garments as effectively nevertheless it undoubtedly appears to excel at promoting decrease priced excessive road items – you may promote bundles and mix delivery if somebody buys multiple merchandise, too. The very best bit? No itemizing or promoting charges.
GOOD FOR: Designer vogue
It has been some time since I’ve offered something right here, however the benefit of designer vogue is that if it’s a well-liked model, it should maintain its worth. Vestiaire is utilized by the style group, so that you’re extra prone to promote much less well-known names (i.e., manufacturers I like like Manu Atelier) than you’re at a automobile boot or eBay. BUT they do take round 14% fee.
GOOD FOR: Objects 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 patrons are a bit extra pernickety in regards to 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 variety of children 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 straightforward – you simply scan the barcode and when you will have 10 gadgets or extra (that appears to be the minimal they settle for – 10 gadgets or £10 worth) you may both arrnage a set (belief me, books get heavy!) or drop off at a parcel level.
GOOD FOR: Furnishings
We promote quite a bit on Gumtree, usually outdated furnishings and gadgets that should be collected. Chris offered some digicam lenses too lately, nevertheless it’s essential to recollect to fulfill somebody in daylight and never at your house handle, particularly if you’re promoting dearer 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 your complete sequence of Recreation Of Thrones by shopping for sequence one on DVD, then saved exchanging it for the following sequence till we’d caught up – cheaper than a Sky subscription!
Automotive boot gross sales
GOOD FOR: Every little thing else. All of your bric-a-brac, lonely mugs, that photograph body you by chance ordered within the incorrect measurement, and the sneakers you suppose are in too dangerous a state to promote. Guide a date upfront, so you will have a spotlight, in any other case you’ll have hordes of stuff simply ready indefinitely (and belief me, when you begin gathering, you may 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:
In the event you’d reasonably donate listed here are a number of locations I like to recommend which might be doing superb issues (primarily London based mostly):
Child gadgets: @pramdepot or @littlevillagehq
Interiors: @furnishingfutures
Garments: @smartworkscharity @shelterkingscross
Mixture of the whole lot: @oxfamgb @northlondonhospice
Or you may click on the charity possibility on Vinted and eBay so the cash you make goes straight to assist others (I’ve a charity led eBay store).
