Christmas Challenge! £300.00 by Christmas.

[BenedictsCumberbitch]

I'm getting back into my eBaying, massive clear outs will keep me busy over this free listings weekend, wondered if anyone wanted to join me in making Christmas as cheap as possible and having the good people of eBay pay for most of it!

The guy is coming up for my cash on collection item, I'm gobsmacked, delighted but gobsmacked.

That's great news!

Wow, just made £115.65 on top of last weeks. About £28 still to come in if everyone pays.

That's good going lollipop, what did you sell?

I'm going to list my v pillow with a pillowcase. With Royal Mail it would have to go Standard Parcels and cost just over £5. i'll put it as available for collection too but can anyone recommend a cheaper carrier?

Oooh my stuff is finally starting to take off... it's been no bids for DAYS!

Still only 3 things listed but hoping for great things

Mother had a clear out of about 3 bin bags of clothes. About 40 packages went off yesterday!

40, wow! Well done. I may have 90 active listings at any time, but I only expect about 10 of those to sell.

Yay! One of my BIN items sold this morning! Have just posted Sunday night's sold items except for two which haven't been paid for yet.

I'm finding it all very stressful this week but have so much more to get rid of...I'm seriously considering sending it all to the charity shop .

Hiccup - why don't you go through all your stuff and pick out a bag of the best things to ebay, then send the rest to a charity shop? Try to cut down your pile by 75% or so... is it mainly clothes?

Yes, good idea.

It's all sorts. Clothes, shoes, toys. I also have a few bags of my sister's stuff that I offered to eBay for her. Some of it sold on the weekend but there are about three more bags. I have said that I don't think some it is worth listing so will have to sort that into piles to eBay and piles to give back to her/charity shop.

Hiccup - we had masses of clothes I'd been keeping thinking I would Ebay "sometime" but as we were preparing to move house I decided that I would get rid of the majority of it. I mostly kept the branded items and anything unusual. The other bits filled 2 HUGE garden plastic sacks and I took them to a Cash-4-Clothes place. They paid 50p a kilo so I got @£20! Not a huge lot but better than giving it to free to the charity shop (which got all our decorative items instead!)

dizzyday07 - how fussy are these Cash-4-Clothes places? Do they go through everything carefully before they weigh it? I was wondering about giving it a go, since we appear to have one in our town now! At present I have a number of carrier bags sitting on the upstairs landing - one for the charity shop, one for textile recycling, and one for Cash-4-Clothes. [I have already given a work colleague a big bag of stuff for her dd and ds.] I have a number of pairs of dd's shoes and wellies that are in good but not fantastic condition - that should push the weight up!

Hiccup - have you checked to see if there are any NCT sales coming up close to you. That is a good way of selling kid's toys - especially bulky ones that would not fetch very much on eBay!

Well,I was doing well,until the Post Office refused top accept a parcel today as it is a BFPO address and the postcode doesn't match.I also discovered that you can't send BFPO things,even in the UK,by 2ND class post,so now I'll be down on postage and have an extra trip back to the post office [that's if the address issue gets sorted],which is a 12 mile round trip.It would have been cheaper to give the darned thing away.Grrr!

Just flicked through this thread for inspiration as I keep meaning to sort things out to sell but the long walk to the post office puts me off.

I think I must have bought some stuff of some of you over the last couple of weeks as I've bought tons of baby clothes and maternity clothes!

Purple - when I took mine all the girl did was have a quick rummage in the bag. She certainly didn't check over every item. All my stuff would have been suitable for the charity shop to sell as I'd already seperated the bits that were more suitable for textile recycling!

Well I have posted the four items that sold over weekend incl one that the buyer paid for at 3 o clock today :) Lets see them mark me down for slow delivery lol.
Still got 30 items on the jo jingles doll went for 9.50 and the fancy dress outfit for just over 6 pound it all helps :)
Must have half a dozen witch outfits knocking about need to get them on as its such a narrow selling window. i got about £18 for two big bags at cash for clothes and he did not check the bags

Mirage, would it be worth contacting the buyer to pat towards the postage in that instance?
If postage was cheaper than expected sellers usually do refunds.
It just seems a bit unfair.

I sold a book!! For £16!! (Old textbooky thing.)

Thanks for the info, Dizzy and SNOWBall. I'll try to sort my stuff out in the next few weeks and give it a go. It is all charity-shop-quality. Very few charity shops around here seem to have kid's shoes. I also have some newer things that I definitely intend to take to a charity shop as they are worth a lot more than 50p a kilo, but that I don't want to eBay, for one reason or another.

I also have a witch outfit to sell, but I intend to offer it along with a large broomstick and cauldron, so might try Gumtree first!

Mirage what's BFPO address? Never heard of that before?

Can someone please help me.

One of my items has sold, and it's to a french address when I specify I don't post outside of the UK. What do I do now.

You will have to send your buyer a cancellation request - plus you need to change your settings in eBay to actually stop bidders from overseas.

BFPO is British Forces Post Overseas. I think you pay the UK 1st class rate but the army etc get it to the right destination. I think.