Selling on wedding dress

[Justonedayatatime11]

I purchased my Pronovias dress for £1600 last year. It's been dry cleaned and is immaculate, put up on reselling sites (gumtree, preloved and still white) but I'm wondering what sort of resell price you'd expect to get/pay for it? One CF tried to get me to sell for £200! Which seems absurd, but is it actually better than it sitting and gathering dust? Just curious...

You'll be very lucky to sell it at all I'm afraid.
The only interest I got was from people trying to launder money through my bank by sending my grossly exaggerated cheques and requesting I sent them the difference.....

Honestly I find people selling wedding dresses (especially on Facebook) both irritating and vulgar.

You spent a lot of money on a dress you only wore for one day and would now like some of that money back but predictably (at the end the popular summer/winter wedding seasons) a thousand dresses seem to do the rounds, which nobody wants and adverts/ comments from the sellars get increasing pushy/frustrated about why nobody wants their precious dress! I regularly see sellars ‘shaming’ low offers they have received and roll my eyes - whilst others receive none and complain profusely.

Wedding dresses are one of those items which people just prefer to buy new. There’s a reason so many people are selling on their expensive dresses (because they didn’t buy them second hand and probably paid more than they were comfortable with).

So you have a small buy base and those who do buy second hand are usually on a very low budget! Hence low offers.

So yes you’ll be lucky to get a couple of hundred for it and would be better either holding on to it or donating it.

(although I suspect ‘don’t want it collecting dust’ actually means ‘would like some of my money back’ else you would have donated it already!)

To be honest if £200 is all that anyone has been willing to pay for it I'd say it's probably not worth much more, regardless of how much you paid originally.

Like PP said there are loads for sale but not a big market for them.

I've a friend who dyes and recycles wedding dresses into professional theatre costumes. She buys from ebay, junk sales and charity shops paying £100 max. It's amazing what she gets, really high end Vera Wang etc.
I think no matter what you paid originally, once worn , a dress is only worth the fabric cost.
£200 to me is good offer.