Where to sell second hand items?

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I have a load of items to sell since my horse was pts.

Rugs (most barely used), trickle nets, bits, travel boots etc

The horsey Facebook pages in my area are deserted. EBay is expensive - are there any alternatives?

I'm donating a lot to a local equine rescue but there are some items I want to sell (and they've told me they don't need).

Any suggestions?
 
I’ve found ebay is best for things that aren’t cheap. I don’t think it’s expensive to list. FB seems to be full of people that don’t want to pay the going rate. Do you have a horsey car boot sale nearby? I’ve sold a lot through them in the last year.
 
meleeka said:
I’ve found ebay is best for things that aren’t cheap. I don’t think it’s expensive to list. FB seems to be full of people that don’t want to pay the going rate. Do you have a horsey car boot sale nearby? I’ve sold a lot through them in the last year.
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I sold lots of items on ebay last year and found bids were low and I was losing a lot of the low sales price to fees.

Horsey car boot is a good idea. Will see if any are planned.
 
I've got some top quality things to sell but I've viewed similar items on ebay & they didn't sell so I'm not listing them until prices pick up. It's probably down to peoples worries about the cost of living rise & electricity & gas prices going up violently.
 
Ebay have 80% off listing fees offers at times. We've currently got one for this weekend so will be listing some stuff, they're well worth waiting for in what you save in fees.

I think this time of year is a particularly bad time to sell stuff but ebay is strange, I've listed some things numerous times with no interest then suddenly it'll sell for a good price.
 
Join the horsey for sale pages for your local areas on FB. You can always leave once your items are sold. You can list on marketplace and share to those pages at the same time.







Gumtree and Preloved



Ebay, ideally when they have an offer on selling fees.

You can list stuff for sale on here but only in the regional area section.

Sorry for your loss
 
I have bought and sold on e bay. Sold climbing boots which were the wrong size. Bought a used but as new dress from a favourite brand and bought a 20 year old (but as new) pair of cord walking trousers identical to my old ones which were worn to a thread.
On winter evenings since lock down, I have built quite a lot of complex and expensive Lego. Much of it I bought used from ebay and will re sell on ebay in due course.
 
meleeka said:
I’ve found ebay is best for things that aren’t cheap. I don’t think it’s expensive to list. FB seems to be full of people that don’t want to pay the going rate. Do you have a horsey car boot sale nearby? I’ve sold a lot through them in the last year.
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eBay is really slow at the moment. I been trying to sell two bits bran new with label's for £ 10 normally £ 18 and nothing and rugs and other things. Giving up now going to a equine car boot
 
Thanks all. I've gone down the ebay route as I had that same 80% off listing fees offer.

I did post a few items on fb market place but honesty it wasn't worth the hassle of the time wasters and pointless questions.
 
I tend to look on Ebay or Facebook marketplace, but only buy locally if it’s marketplace.

I have been surprised though by prices people seem to think they might sell for: when I was looking for a bridle there were items which were listed as brand new and unused…that is nice…but the price was the same as the new price too!

Why would I not just buy it direct from the retailer then, with all the extra protection that gives? Even worse, that particular retailer had the item in the sale when I checked the price, so was actually cheaper than the private seller. Perhaps that private seller was trying to make a profit <g>
 
I used a mix of eBay and Facebook market place. Also check on Facebook as some areas may have local selling groups

I took a load to a horsey table top sale, and some went but not loads

Last lot went as a job lot to a lady who runs a rescue, to sell in their shop, but she spotted my post on FB market place or the local selling group can't remember which

eBay I priced everything to include recorded delivery (obviously more for expensive things like rugs). I sent everything recorded because I'm cynical and it actually was to my advantage as someone tried to claim they hadn't received but I checked and it was signed for by them in their house - I could then send proof via a screenshot

I had loads of stuff, and as giving up wanted rid of all bar the sentimental items.

You could do groups of the smaller stuff e.g. a set of hi Viz/set of brushes etc?

Agree re time wasters though, the biggest time waster involved a martingale I had on market place for about £2!!
 
I sell expensive items on eBay and lower priced on FB. Have sold quite a lot of rugs etc on FB.

Have done a horsey car boot in the past and people were buying literally anything we had. We had accidentally brought a bin bags of broken head collars/ripped rugs and people were buying them for a few pounds a piece! Didn’t sell any of my higher priced items there though.

Recently sold a Thermatex on FB and got 32 messages in a day!
 
I try local FB pages first. Then wait for an 80% off fees email from eBay, which I haven’t had in ages but was getting them often and it makes it far more bearable!
 
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