I gave a whole lot of books to my sister to give to the people who give books to the homeless. SHe decided to sell them on Ebay. Didn't work - got 99cents for a few of them and then had the hassle of postage etc.
I sold 3 x bags of maternity clothes (sorted into size and season ITMS) and two of the bags went for about $30 each and the other went for about $7. I was happy.
My kids clothes i have so far sold and given away on BB. Just sell the really good stuff and thrown in the rest for free. I don't have any friends with boys younger than mine. In fact, in my mum's group they tend to give me ALL their boys clothes, so i have a lot more than I'll ever need!
I don't think you ever get their value back, and as long as you aren't going to get disappointed, then you'll do ok. Apparently Gumtree is good too, i've never used it.
I just put the money in the boys bank accounts. Then it's all worth it, because it's their education fund.
My daughters shoes, from Kmart to Sprout to Converse usually are the best sellers for me! Believe it or not, the Kmart ones I have gotten more than I actually paid for them! w00t
Books - EWWWWWWW @ putting them on eBay! Cause then you have to weigh them, sort out how much postage will be to what part of the country...TOOOOO MUCH EFFORT!
Clothes and Shoes are easy peasy! I only post in prepaid 500g or 3kg bags Set price for each of them, and bobs ya uncle!
Being a stay at home mum, makes me feel like I am kinda contributing to bills and stuff! (it doesn't count when people pay me via PayPal tho, as that is *spending money* hehehe)
I haven't sold anything on ebay (though for a long time I used it as an excuse to hang on to all the tiny little baby things that I couldn't bear to get rid of ) but we did have a table once at the Baby and Children's Markets. I sold most of the baby gadgets and loads of clothes, made well over $400. Much better use of time doing it all at once like that, and then it doesn't matter if you're selling stuff much cheaper than people "might" pay because a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
After that my friend had a baby so I started giving all the good stuff to her.
I think books are much harder to sell on ebay now because of all the cheap offshore no postage options. Why buy 2nd hand when you can get brand new for $5 more?
I did well at a market, took a bit of time putting nice things into bags with stickers to show the price and made a chart thing and then had a hanging rail for some better things. With the cost of the market split between us, we both made a good amount - I made around $150 and she made $200 ish because she had more nicer stuff! I thought it was well worth it for a few hours work.
The only thing I have made super good money on ebay was an old gym set we didn't want to take to the tip - put it on for 99c just hoping someone would take it off our hands and ended up making around $150
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) but we did have a table once at the Baby and Children's Markets. I sold most of the baby gadgets and loads of clothes, made well over $400. Much better use of time doing it all at once like that, and then it doesn't matter if you're selling stuff much cheaper than people "might" pay because a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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