Advice in selling good quality clothes on ebay please

[latrucha]

I have a Hobbs dress, jacket and shoes to sell. Completed listing have good prices but I am not sure whether to put on a Buy It Now, or a reserve (I've never done this and I'm not sure how it works) or what.

Can you help?

What's the lowest amount you're willing to part with each item for?
If you don't mind paying extra for insertion fees (buy it now/reserves cost extra) then putting a BIN choice is a good idea. I usually just start with a 99p bid.
If you put each item on individually, start the bidding at the lowest price you're willing to sell them for by them selves. You're more likely to get a larger amount of bids for each individual item, because a full outfit would be to a smaller number's tastes.

Rough guide to postage: For a jacket, weight dependant, put postage around £4-7, shoes at about £5, and dress at £4.

Also add that you have other items for sale in the description, and for them to take a look ("this jacket would go great with a dress/shoes I'm also selling, please check them out!") etc etc.

You can tell I spend a lot of time on eBay!!

Thanks. I think I'm going to take a chance and start the bidding high. I'd be more upset if they went for 99p than if they didn't sell. They cost alot new and I'd rather they went to charity than sold very low.

Thanks for the advice.

They are really unlikely to go for 99p, even if you start at that. Hobbs sells really well on ebay.

Do you think you are less likely to get a good price if you start high? I was thinking of £15 or £20?

Starting high wil cost you more, and will be less likely to get you the best price, because if you start something at, say £20, then people will be more reluctant then if you start it at 99p, and a few people get bidding and there are multiple bids, because people will see that other people want the item too, and will see it as being more desirable. People have a much lower threshold for bidding on something costing 99p than £20.

Argh. You see I am the opposite. If I see something with lots of bids on i ignore it as I know it will go really high. hmmm which is exactly what you're saying. Dilemma.

I followed a load of advice on here and on ebay to get really good (£30+) prices on second hand children's clothes. My tips are:

• make sure it's the right season - spring/summer stuff only
• take great photos and lots of them - close ups of detail/fabric as well as the whole item
• describe really, really well
• start your bid on a thursday, finish on a sunday so 10 days in all
• start bidding around a fiver.

Great advice. Thanks. Interesting about the 10 days.

Would you put 'great for summer wedding' or something in the title or does that not do much?

I wouldn't put it in the title but I did say things about 'really toasty and warm in the snow' for padded winter coats.

The 10 day thing is agonising for you as a seller but it's more lucrative for sure. The more people who see your item and really really want it, the higher the price goes basically

Thanks