To be irritated I can’t sell my sell ICandy pushchair

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Before anyone says it I’m an absolute idiot for not buying from gumtree in the first place but 🙄🙄 I wanted a nice shiny new one!

For first baby we got loaned an ICandy as we thought we were only going to have the one dc.

Then got pregnant with dc2 and HAD to have a new pushchair!

We got an single to double as had two under 2 and eldest child not walking when dc2 came.

As Sod’s law would have it, dc2 hated the buggy and refused to sit in it after 12 months.

The whole thing including cost us £1100 including car seat bits.

I’ve been trying to sell it in gumtree for £400 and not one enquiry apart from one cf who asked if he could borrow it🤔

I’m going to have to give it away for next to nothing, aren’t I?

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Another one here who recommends eBay.
I bought a bugaboo donkey for around £1100 and got £600 on eBay a couple of years later.

computational

Are you suggesting I and others can't afford the £1000 and leave ourselves short to pay for it?

We bought ours second hand. 2013 model - £1000 new, we paid £185 (plus cost of a new mattress).

I think there are two kinds of people - those who must have new and those who aren't fussed. The latter group are unlikely to spend a few hundred when they could get a new one (albeit a non- designer brand) for the same cash.

I have a second hand Uppababy Vista - £1000 new but we paid £185 plus the cost of a new mattress.

Can anyone tell me why bugaboos keep their value second hand and icandy don't?

I paid £1190, used it for six months and sold it for £700. eBay all the way!

Icandy don't keep their value like bugaboos do. You probably won't get much. If you wanted a high resale you should have gone for a different pram.

@kerplunk I don’t actually know but it might be because the chassis on iCandy scratch really badly, and also maybe because the Cameleons are machine washable? Be interested if anyone actually knows the answer to this.

Paying over £1000 for a pram was entirely your choice, but unfortunatley the resale for baby items is a lot lot lower than what they cost, particularly iCandy and Bugaboo pushchairs, I think the problem is that the "target audience" for these are normally those fairly well off and who like you want a shiney new one, the latest version etc.

Those in the market to buy a second hand pram are very unlikely to pay £400, no warantee, no knowing how it has been kept/looked after.

To me the iCandy look pretty much the same as an Oyster and you can buy one of these new for around £400.

You'll all hate me, spent £1000 on first pram, then £1500 3 years later for DS2! It makes me happy, I use it every day and couldn't give a fig what anyone else thinks. In fact am at people who would buy and drive a car worth £1500. It would be a death trap!!!

My DD bought a Bugaboo donkey second hand for £500 and she replaced the colour packs etc. She used it for a year, then sold it for £750. For her last baby she bought a Silver Cross Wayfarer and all the gubbins for around £600 but sold it for £200. Some just don't seem to hold their money that well, but there are some quite expensive iCandys listed on Ebay?

lol @champagneandthestars I don’t hate you. I expect most of us could spend that much on a pram if we wanted to but I can thing of about a squillion things I would prefer to spend it on. A lot of cheaper brands are just as good, you’re just buying a “label” really. Plus my kids both preferred to be snuggled up to be in a sling as babies anyway

I love mumsnet sometimes. Everyone who doesn't buy their Phil and Ted's second hand must be a mug.

I don't think there's anything wrong with you for spending £1000+ on a pushchair. I probably spent a bit more than that including the car seat. I love my pram, it is my favourite material possession.

However I don't think you'll get £400 for it. Your limiting your audience if it's collection only as people aren't as likely to pop over to NI, I know some people don't mind a couple of hours drive but a ferry crossing would be too much. Also looks like you've used it for 12 months! That's quite a bit of wear it would have had.

I don't personally 'get' spending a fortune on a pram for the sake of it.

I spent hours researching prams and travel systems for ds3 as I had very specific practical requirements.

I ended up settling on a Britax model which was a few years old (but a new one) and review-wise knocked spots off newer, double the price ones. I think we paid about £400, including carrycot, cosytoes etc.

When nowadays you can buy such good new systems for £400-£500, I think the number of people willing to pay that for second hand would be minuscule.

A car under £1500 is a death trap? I've heard it all now!

And I'm a big fan of a second hand bargain - a pristine jumperoo for £20 second hand or £120 new for instance. No brainer. But most people would still choose new if they could and the only thing enticing them to second hand is the price...so make that too high and there's no chance.

I'm looking for a second hand one! Let me know where you list it. Accepting postal costs are about £30 and splitting between you and the buyer may help. I've seen some that include postage from around the UK and while I know sellers have just included the cost in the price, it does make me think of buying from them instead for ease...

Gosh there are a lot of judgemental comments on here!

How someone chooses to spend their own hard earned money is up to them! We spent about £1300 but that included our isofix base and car seat too. As for it costing what some people spend on a car, again it's an entirely personal choice!

If you are calling people names for how they chose to spend their own money it says far more about you than them.

@Nicknacky

I'm saying that from what I've seen, people with lower incomes spend more money on things like Christmas presents and child's clothes and buggies than those with more money. Not relatively more or proportional to income, just 'more'.

People with more money may invest in better quality and expect it to last. People without a clue may spend £1k on a buggy for one child and £1.5 three years later on their second.

I say this as someone who sees value in some items but not in others. Our buggies / travel systems were about £350 iirc and we gave them to a charity shop. My children happily wear hand-me-downs but we pay £535 annual tax on each of our cars.

We brought a double from e Bay for £250. Well used

I think a good idea for a charity shop would be to be more willing to buy more premium pushchairs (and other big ticket baby stuff) from people at a discount then make their money from selling it at 20-30% more than they paid for it.

I'm more than happy to buy second hand but what I don't like is having to schlep to someone's house, potentially have an embarrassing situation where I don't want the item after all on seeing it (or going into eg a smoky or damp smelling house) or having to haggle etc.

I'm terribly socially awkward.

The time will come when I will be selling expensive buggies and cots etc, and I'll have to deal with the social awkwardness. I can't afford to give it to a charity shop but I'd sell it at a discounted price to avoid hassle and awkwardness.

computational

The may be your experience but it doesn't appear to have any relevance to this thread. I bought brand new prams for both my kids, it is proportional to our income. Doesn't make me clueless!

sorry, but why do you pay £535 annual tax on each of our cars? Are they company cars and it's a taxable benefit?

Anyone who buys a £1100 pushchair is a mug. We got cheap ones used and after 3 months get the next one, £100 max, love not being tied to something worth more than a car.

But 100 every 3 months gets to 1100 very quickly. If they're still in a buggy at 2.5 that's a grand. If you have a second child you could be doing that for 4 or 5 years.

It isnt surprising op.

If you wanted to get a buggy that holds its value second hand,you should have got a bugaboo donkey.