EBay!!

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I used to use ebay lots and it was great, felt good to buy second hand rather than new and sell on my stuff rather than put in landfill. I’ve started using it again recently and the prices people are asking for their second hand used clothes has rocketed! Are there any better sites where people aren’t taking the piss? I have bought a couple of things and they’ve arrived in a state too, damaged, dirty, tissues in the pockets etc. EBay has really gone downhill.

I moved to Vinted, cheaper and better quality stuff.

Agree, I think everyone has moved to Vinted for clothes.

Another vote for Vinted. So much better!!

If you think that is ridiculous, I was looking for something today and noticed people selling empty wine bottles (like, you've drunk the wine and have an empty bottle) for £3 or so plus postage. Seriously, it may not be that good, but you can buy a full bottle for that!

Thanks i will look at vinted

Used wine bottles?! What?!! 😅What’s worrying is that somebody somewhere must be buying them..!

I'm always surprised what people will buy. Because a lot of the stuff on there is not rare or hard to find, so if you don't like the price, you simply don't buy it.

I've sold empty gin bottles for £5-10 for nicer ones.

I often sell sets of Pots & Co ramekins for about the same as what it costs to buy full of delicious pudding. Why would you buy empty ramekins from eBay, when you can buy them for the same price in the supermarket, with pudding in them?

I get coffee or cinema vouchers from my credit card that I CBA using, so sell them on. The price is often about the same as it would cost to just buy the coffee/pay for a cinema ticket. So why go to the hassle of trawling ebay and trusting a stranger to send you stuff/have to wait in for parcels etc?

On the flip side, I've recently tried to sell some higher value tech on there and the fees are absolutely extortionate. There's no point doing it if you're selling things for cheap.

And yet people complain if you sell something for £4.99 with free P&P.

Out of that £4.99, ebay get about 15% so 75 p
It costs at least £3 to post, leaving the seller with just over a pound for their item and labour of listing and packing the item, and taking it to the post office/parcel drop off place.

I agree with everyone else, but I've heard so many horror stories about scammers on Vinted that I've been too worried to make the switch. Maybe I need to give it a go

Ebid might work for you. It has been going for ages but no-one seems to realise it's there. I have often found things on there that I coudn't find elsewhere.

I can't get on with Vinted. Looks like it is full of scammers and screwed up heaps of fabric, and the things that are neither have no measurements. Result, I look elsewhere.

I bought empty ramekins because they are the ones I need for measuring and keeping cat food and little garnishes (not for the cat) - they stack in the fridge.

I would have bought them full of pud but the bastards stopped selling it in the nice little ramekins and changed to glass ones. I needed them to be the same so that I could stack them.

I wouldn't buy a wine bottle, or a dirty, stained chopping board, or various other stuff that I see on Ebay but it has been useful for specific items that are end of line or old stock that I have been looking for.

There's always been a significant market for used bottles of premium wines and spirits. When Tesco own brand gin is £12 and brands like Tanqueray and Plymouth are £26 and Warner's and Hendrick's are £30, it is cheaper pay £5 for an empty bottle and fill it up with Tesco gin than to pay £30 for the real thing. Add tonic, ice and a slice and most people won't be able to tell the difference.

The problem with these sites is that they rely to some degree on goodwill.

At first they are great. Then the piss takers and scammers move in.

I've had some great stuff off on line aution sites, but I am careful only to buy specialist stuff.

I would not use them for anything like volume consumer goods such as phones, cameras, laptops, clothes etc.

Havent used eBay for years apart from screen protectors. It's time has gone.

I use Vinted to sell, much easier.

I’m actually surprised at your post as I’ve found people wanting things for pennies on eBay.
Eg I listed a new with tags item that is still on shop website for £160 and I put a start price of £30. I got people messaging me offering £15.
I find Vinted a bit short on details. Often no information about material and no measurements. The photos often seem very fuzzy which I don’t think is the sellers fault as they are all like that.

I'm surprised at that, I carefully search by brand and condition and have found some amazing things.

My photos Vinted photos aren't fuzzy, I also send a direct message if I want more info.

It's the fees. I always wait for an 80% off variable fee offer as I try and sell stuff cheap but I imagine people still think its too much, forgetting I include postage in the cost.

It’s amazing what someone will buy.

I couldnt believe the interest I had in what were essentially doors which were parts of a cupboard that were from the 80s/ early 90s I had bought them in the sales from somewhere like ikea and had never got round to opening them.

I was going to throw them as I didn’t think anyone would have the matching cupboards

Turns out loads of people did.

I was so amazed I actually asked the person who bought them to check they were what they wanted and I could open them up and send them photos for them to check but they said they had been trying to find a matching set of doors and they were exactly what they wanted.

My Dd has tried to sell on Vinted. But the first time she listed some stuff she was told the listings were removed and account suspended for 7 days because she was a Bot (she had been too quick at listing things)

She then got her account open again and listed again one item to make sure that was showing as for sale before listing the next. Account closed because they do not condone the sale of drugs!!!

Since when has a Size 6 skirt been mistaken for illegal drugs.

Dd has gone back to selling on eBay

I've had good and bad experiences on both eBay and Vinted, however Vinted were a lot quicker and easier to sort the problems out. Selling is also much easier on there and completely free.
As a buyer I would say items are slightly cheaper on Vinted but with the buyer protection and postage added on it does add up making cheap items less of a bargain.
I don't like the auction format of eBay either, if I want something I'd rather just buy it than wait for an auction to finish.

I sell my beautiful Harris gin bottles on eBay for £10-15 each
People go through the recycling on our road very week to take out the premium alcohol bottles- amuses the street WhatsApp

I've moved to Vinted now, for the same reason