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The Best Places to Sell Your Old Stuff

Armchair Detective
6 min readSep 19, 2021

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I have been selling my old stuff for years, and in days gone by, the only place to sell online was eBay. However, now there are multiple places where you can sell your items.

eBay — Worldwide

The most popular site for re-sellers. eBay is well established and has a great seller protection policy, which I have used a few times when people have claimed they have not received items. I sell most of my items on eBay, and it is where I get the majority of my sales. Recently, eBay have stopped sellers from receiving payments directly into their PayPal, instead, you get payments directly into your bank.

One downside to eBay is that you seem to get awkward buyers. Although there is a seller protection, there is also buyer protection and often, eBay will favour the buyer. I have sold used items for £0.99p and people have said that the item is not as described because it has a tiny mark on. Even if you list the items as used, they still have a comeback. I now put a disclaimer on all my listings which state that used items are sold as imperfect, this does deter some buyers, but I still get the ones that do not carefully read the listing. You can refuse to refund them, but all they will do is leave negative feedback.

Items can be listed from the app and the website.

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Armchair Detective
Armchair Detective

Written by Armchair Detective

Amateur writer and photographer. I mostly write about passive income, history and crime.

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