I'd use that in a heartbeat. Here in the UK, there's only eBay and Gumtree where you can realistically sell used stuff and both are a total pain in the ass. eBay doesn't really want private sellers and lets you feel it, plus it forces you to use PayPal, which won't let you have your money for 21 days after you sold something. Gumtree is full of scammers and bullshitters and few buyers.
I'm guessing the dollar amounts involved for the sorts of things you mention would be less than I could be bothered with. I pretty much decided that less than $50-$100 was about my floor where I would consider eBay.
My dad was making fantastic money on ebay selling used items, but that was only because he had a cheap source of them - we have a company that sells second hand clothing, but the thing is, when you buy a truckload of second hand clothes, it comes with all sorts of crap that people give away to charities - watches, jewelery, shoes, toys, handbags, electronics, board games, books, etc etc etc. So we bought it for say(not a real value) $1/kg, but then my dad would put all of it on ebay. Thousands and thousands of items per month. Since we were buying per weight but selling individually, the profit on it was huge, and you wouldn't believe what sort of nonsense people would buy - old broken watch from a brand no one ever heard about for $5? Sold!
Well I just looked around in my house for stuff I haven't touched for 3 months or so. I just looked it up on ebay and craigslist and posted it there. that was how I did my first 300€ bucks now. And then for flipping (buying and reselling higher), look for thrift stores, garage sales, yard sales and so on. If you want to know what to buy look for some youtube channels e.g.: Ralliroots, 10konthebay, rockstarflipper
Just one tip for eBay: don't do auctions. You will usually get low-balled. research the market price and price the item accordingly.
I think this is pretty awesome. One of the things I do most often on eBay is check completed sales for items I own, to see what the opportunity cost of me hanging on to my stuff is. I was thinking a few weeks ago about how I needed a site that had a list of all my possessions(of the non-sentimental variety) and gave me updated values of their worth. I considered building one myself for about 5 minutes because I knew my skillset wouldn't be a good fit for this type of project. But am very glad to see someone has taken up the challenge. I think for young people and others without a whole lot of income, a site like this is very useful. I think there is a huge market here. Wigix is definitely a site to watch.
I wish there was something like a second hand store where you can just drop your stuff for 10% of its price on eBay.
I don't want to deal with anything. Not wait for someone to pick it up. Not wrap it in a parcel and bring it to the post office. Not sign up for some service. Nothing. Just drop my stuff, get a little bit of money and am done with it.
Buying shit on Cragslist (or Gumtree in the UK) and selling on eBay and vice versa. My better half manages 500-800GBP a month with this quite happily. Persuaded some muppet to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP and got 580GBP on ebay for it :)
Unfortunately it got converted to clothes and shoes pretty quickly :(
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