To think it’s getting harder to sell things

[Whyyouso]

I do give a lot away but it seems anything I try to sell never does. I’m currently selling a new packet of Disney baby grows for £3.50 less then what I paid for them yet no interest.

It's very hard to sell baby clothes, even new ones, I run a charity shop and we often receive donations of brand new, tags on, baby clothes and they rarely sell even at £1 each. I think there us some sort of view that babies should only have 'new from the shop' clothes.

Second hand selling is partly luck. You need to have something that someone else wants.

In the past week we've sold a tent, a golf club trolley and a hedge trimmer. No one wants the doors. The beds went quickly back in April. A 'brand name' children's bike went in a day for the price we wanted (DH had looked up the average price they went for).

But people only look second hand if items are rare, hard to get old off currently or they need stuff cheap. Babygros aren't rare or hard to get hold of, and £5 isn't particularly cheap.

IME selling babies and children’s clothes, as a previous poster said, unless they’re Boden, JoJo Maman, Frugi, John Lewis, etc, they don’t sell well.
I don’t even bother selling these now, I give them to a friend for her daughters, hassle, plus posting puts me off. I did make a fair bit selling before I returned to work though and it came in handy :)

So many people are trying to sell so much stuff now, Facebook, eBay etc are full of it, I even saw on our local one someone try to sell their child’s very done in school shoes, clearly needed the money but the shoes were completely falling apart.

Although uou say Disney, if they just have Disney characters on and are really actually a cheaper brand and not actually Disney, you would need to go way cheaper to stand a chance, there is simply too much competition, and by the time you factor in postage or collection it’s often just easier to pick them up from the actual shop.

People have stopped being discriminate about what they sell, if they no longer have a need for it, they try to flog it, which has resulted in a huge amount of competition.

I have been selling a lot of DS’s and DD’s old clothes on eBay. I’ve found certain brands sell really well, especially Frugi/JoJo but have not had much luck with Next/John Lewis etc. People will pay what they think it’s worth. If you put on eBay at least if there’s demand people will bid for it? Worth a go I suppose.

I think places like Primark are so cheap people won’t buy secondhand clothes unless they’re the type of person (like my 18 year old dd) who actually enjoys going charity shop shopping. Too much hassle.

@Panaesthesia

Nobody wants your minging old babygros. Babies shit on them and they cost £5 for 5.

Did you mean to be so rude?

They're not old, probably not minging, and not been shat on, as they are new and unused.

But well for reading and comprehending the op eh? Or not...

I have a lot more success with selling child related items at NCT sales than any other method. With my local one there is a £5 fee (although I volunteer at the sale so that is reimbursed) and pay 20% commission on sales (25% if I don't volunteer) but I sell a lot of clothes even plain supermarket tops for £1 that would never sell on eBay or Facebook as it isn't worth the petrol/postage. Anything new always sells. I'm hoping NCT sales will start up again.

£3 is the price you should be selling for. Has to be a less than half price.

Nobody wants your minging old babygros. Babies shit on them and they cost £5 for 5.

It says right there in the op that they're new. Idiotic.

This is where ‘did you mean to be so rude’ doesn’t work.

Yes, she meant to be that rude. It was a deliberately provocative and unpleasant post.

Some people don’t get attention through thoughtfulness or wit so they have to go for the shock factor with rudeness to be noticed.

@osbertthesyrianhamster agree, you wouldn't believe the old tack we get on the local page and they want ridiculous money!

@silvergoldstars

This is where ‘did you mean to be so rude’ doesn’t work.

Yes, she meant to be that rude. It was a deliberately provocative and unpleasant post.

Some people don’t get attention through thoughtfulness or wit so they have to go for the shock factor with rudeness to be noticed.

Agree, you see this quite often, it’s very different when you get caught up in an emotive argument, but some people just post horrible attacks.

There’s a thread where a blonde lady thinks her hair is gingery, it’s not, it’s lovely, and someone posted it was ginger striped snd asked if she liked looking like a cat. It was simoly a needless attack. Prob borne from envy in that instance, but some posters just come on to anonymously abuse other posters,

I think you need to stop dwelling on what you paid for them and what you feel you are owed for them. They are only worth what people will pay for them and hassle is a huge factor.

Agree with PP that the level of reading comprehension on here is depressing.

@Whyyouso £5 does sound a lot when people sell bundles of clothes for £10. Hopefully you can swap them. Or could you maybe regift them for a new arrival?

But they are also quite likely to go on sale, for around 5

People will only pay what it’s worth.

So it doesn’t matter if they were originally £8.50. If they won’t pay £5, they aren’t worth £5.

Honestly OP it’s not worse the hassle. I used to save any designer baby clothes to sell on eBay but now it’s all just goes to the charity shop too much hassle, and once you take off eBay fees, p&p and going to the post office it’s just not worth it. I’d rather it go to a good cause.

@Panaesthesia

Nobody wants your minging old babygros. Babies shit on them and they cost £5 for 5.

Oh do bother to read the original post!

I can't seem to sell anything on eBay right now. It's just covid. Wasn't a problem for the last 20 years.

I would give them to a charity shop of your choosing, it will be a lot less bother

Once they’ve been owned by someone, used or not, still in packet, they’re no longer ‘brand new’. They’re secondhand. I honestly wouldn’t be bothered driving out for something small like that unless it was something I really wanted.

FB selling is bloody awful though, I have no idea what process is going on in someone’s head to arrange to buy something, arrange collection and then ghost you? Is it really so terrible to just message and say ‘I’ve changed my mind’. I’ve noticed this more from the twenty somethings, I would love an honest explanation for this behaviour?

Where did you buy them from and are you sure they're not currently on sale in the shop?

It's not really about how much you paid for them but how much it would cost to buy them elsewhere.

If I didn't have much money I wouldn't pay £5 for babygrows from ebay. I would want a bargain. If I wasnt hard up I would buy them new from a shop. Wrong type of thing to sell on ebay I'd say.

If they’re age 0-3 or 3-6 months they’re going to be a pita to shift unless they’re Boden/ Gap etc. Considering they were £8.50 new I’m guessing they were Primark or Asda? Everyone gets gifted babygro’s for new babies as theyre a cheap practical gift. Most people get given way too many than they need and end up trying to shift them. They could easily be sold for £5 new in the shop if they were end of season etc. I can’t imagine you’ll shift them for much more than £1-£2.