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Best apps for decluttering - Books, Toys, etc

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localnotail · 01/01/2025 14:17

Hi everyone! Happy New Year

As it is a brand new year, I have decided to declutter and in the process make some money on the stuff I need to get rid of. What I mainly have is toys (Lego and Playmobil), some kid clothes and books. I generally sell on ebay and FB marketplace, but ebay is a a bit slow and only good for high quality in demand stuff, and FB marketplace is a bit of a hit and miss and recently seem to be full of scammers and weirdoes.

I'm not going to do Vinted as I tried and it was a complete waste of time, I did not sell anything and it just felt like an inferior version of ebay.

I have been looking at other options - anyone had experience with these?

World of Books/ Ziffit - my understanding is this is the only app specifically for book selling but it seems they price them very cheap?

Amazon - I used to sell books on there ages ago but it looks like there is no specific section there to just sell books?

Olio/ Nextdoor - anyone used these for selling household items?

Any other ways to sell stuff? I tried a car boot sale before but it was rubbish, it took all day and I barely made it even after paying for the stall.

Thanks!

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renomeno · 01/01/2025 15:02

I treat Vinted as a carboot, generally price things very cheaply but it's amazing how quickly it can add up. To date I've sold £800 on there! I've used Olio to give stuff away but not to sell and only sold a couple of (large) items on marketplace.

The book selling apps give you pennies for most books so not worth the faff, I'd rather try selling sites or give to charity.

localnotail · 01/01/2025 15:44

renomeno · 01/01/2025 15:02

I treat Vinted as a carboot, generally price things very cheaply but it's amazing how quickly it can add up. To date I've sold £800 on there! I've used Olio to give stuff away but not to sell and only sold a couple of (large) items on marketplace.

The book selling apps give you pennies for most books so not worth the faff, I'd rather try selling sites or give to charity.

I don't understand how Vinted works, I had items on there for weeks, priced at £5-£10 (some new, some hardly worn, things like tops and dresses from Zara etc) - I got a lot of "likes" but nothing got sold, so I just cancelled the account as it seemed like a waste of time.

Seems like ebay it is!

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unsync · 01/01/2025 19:03

I've been thinking about using Vintage Cash Cow as I quite like the idea of just boxing everything up and sending it off. I don't know if you get much money back though.

Autumnalmists · 03/01/2025 22:52

Thinks on vinted tended to go much lower price I found.

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