third January 2023
The quickest strategy 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 telephone 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 searching on the couch – or if utilizing eBay, you may schedule your itemizing on eBay to complete on a Sunday) and add a number of objects directly. Pure daylight is commonly higher for pictures and displaying flaws.
Take into account seasonality. It pays to consider what individuals are fascinated by – coats promote higher in Autumn/winter than they do in summer time, as an illustration.
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 I as soon as offered an outdated (working) Gameboy from the 90s for £25 to a collector on eBay. It was outdated, not the cleanest and didn’t have any use to us any extra – win win!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 needs to be declared as additional earnings to HMRC (there’s, nevertheless, a person tax free ‘buying and selling allowance’ of £1,000).
The place to promote:
GOOD FOR: Excessive road vogue
You possibly can promote designer garments as effectively however it undoubtedly appears to excel at promoting decrease priced excessive road items – you may promote bundles and mix delivery if somebody buys a couple of merchandise, too. The most effective 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 preferred model, it can maintain its value. Vestiaire is utilized by the style neighborhood, so that you’re extra prone to promote much less well-known names (i.e., manufacturers I really 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 glorious situation
It’s nice for promoting garments that don’t match/you 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 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 whole lot of children books don’t maintain a lot worth (so ours go to charity) however sometimes a shock £5.70 shall be supplied! The app is tremendous simple – you simply scan the barcode and when you’ve got 10 objects or extra (that appears to be the minimal they settle for – 10 objects 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 so much on Gumtree, usually outdated furnishings and objects that should be collected. Chris offered some digital camera lenses too just lately, however it’s essential to recollect to fulfill somebody in daylight and never at your property deal with, particularly while you’re promoting costlier objects.
CeX (UK.webuy.com)
GOOD FOR: Electricals and DVDs.
I offered my Apple Mac laptop computer right here (be sure you wipe it earlier than taking it in!), and it’s additionally good for promoting outdated iPhones. Enjoyable reality: we watched the whole collection of Recreation Of Thrones by shopping for collection one on DVD, then stored exchanging it for the following collection till we’d caught up – cheaper than a Sky subscription!
Automobile boot gross sales
GOOD FOR: Every part else. All of your bric-a-brac, lonely mugs, that photograph body you by chance ordered within the mistaken measurement, and the footwear you suppose are in too dangerous a state to promote. Ebook a date prematurely, so you’ve got 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 case you’d quite donate listed here are a number of locations I like to recommend which might be doing superb issues (primarily London primarily based):
Child objects: @pramdepot or @littlevillagehq
Interiors: @furnishingfutures
Garments: @smartworkscharity @shelterkingscross
Mixture of every thing: @oxfamgb @northlondonhospice
Or you may click on the charity choice on Vinted and eBay so the cash you make goes straight to assist others (I’ve a charity led eBay store).
