DO you think its wrong to buy things at the goodwill and then sell on ebay, or your own personal store?
No, it's helpful. Goodwill Industries employs people to work on, repair, clean, sort, and sell those items. The more items they sell the more they can employ people. The money Goodwill gets for the items is only part of the equation. If you go to a Goodwill collection center (Salvation Army, too) you will see they have plenty of stuff to sell--too much in fact. They need the shelf space for all the stuff! So go ahead and buy, then resell. If you are feeling that you are making a lot of profit off of them just contribute a portion of the profits to Goodwill.
Is it unethical to buy underpriced items from a charity thrift shop and then sell them for a profit?
I believe that what I am "selling" when I resell things I buy at charity shops is my expertise. I have spent hundreds of hours researching (plus additional hours each week - keeping myself updated) on certain categories of clothing that sell well online. I can go through a thrift store rack of donated, abused blouses and pull the two that collectors or buyers are looking for. This is the value that I bring to the transaction stream. I cannot be an expert on all things - so I pass by the electronics, books, glassware. There are others who specialize their research into these categories .Thrift stores would be able to do this in-house if they hired and trained employees with these many hours of background knowledge. But, it is not in their best interest to pay experts to work in their stores. Some bigger organizations, such as Goodwill, are now using employees with more extensive training to pull items and auction them online. But a community thrift store would not end up with any profits for their projects if they were paying people with expertise to put old t-shirts on hangers and work the cash register. This would drain all the profits that could go to social projects- the mission of the thrift store. I also feel like I am part of the chain in recovering what is useful and wanted before it ends up in our landfills. There are consumers (like myself) who believe they should buy second hand first if at all possible. We can't keep manufacturing and throwing away. At the rate we're going, we will soon cover the planet in polyester.
My local charity shop is selling a Guardsman GS 232 Tripod for £10 does anyone know anything about these?
No need to know anything about it. Just take a hold of it, stretch all legs to the fullest and see if all locks lock in place. Lean on the top a bit to see how strong it is but don't break it. Make sure there's a head and it's secure. If you're satisfied, buy it. That's cheap.
Should I sell clothes on Depop or Ebay?
3 questions to ask yourselfWho is your target audience? - Depop audience is millennials, are your cloths for millennials? If not, no point selling on DepopWhat is your price point? - Depop cloths are mainly low-medium cost, if you’re selling high end cloths with a premium price tag then this is not the right channel (although I’ve seen shoes for £1,000, but it looks like an outlier)Are you looking for volume sales? - eBay is still WAY WAY bigger then Depop and the number of eyeballs that will see your items on eBay is probably larger than anything you’ll get on Depop at this time. Just look at the trend for eBay vs. depop:Now, it’s true that eBay is declining, but it still has traffic of 1.2 Billion, versus Depop’s 1.4 Million….that’s almost x1000 times more.The solutionI would actually consider selling on both (if my target audience is millennials) simply because listing items on Depop is very easy and it’s on the rise. In 2–3 years it may be much bigger and you’ll have the advantage of being veteran merchant there.eBay is still the biggest market BY FAR, so selling there is sort of a must to gain exposure.PS if you find my answer useful, please Upvote :)
Were do i see how many views my ebay listing has had?
When you are in My Ebay under Active Selling click on your item and before the picture and main part that everyone else sees there is a Status Bar with something like Seller Status: There are no bids on your item And in the right hand corner there is a Visits box which can tell you the number of people that have looked at your item. I've been selling on ebay for a while now and the only bit of advice I can give is get yourself a better camera for pictures, put the jacket on a hanger and hang on a door or something and take the piccie that way. The other thing is and this is just from personal experience £20 is way to high to start a used item - a lower start price attracts more bidders. Even although it's only been worn once. I recently sold a £400 Cerruti 1881 mens jacket for £5.19 and a £2 charity shop Ralph Lauren shirt I bought for my daughter last year for £46! It's just your luck. Oh, whilst I'm on - always check your spelling too!
Can I easily make a profit by buying things from a thrift store and selling them on Craigslist?
If you know what you're doing. I'm in Minneapolis so I have a lot of stores to work with, I do it easily. I only shop the items I'm a expert in(designer jeans, high-end candles, designer bags). I can fly through quickly grabbing what I know is valuable. I'm in and out. If you have to waste time looking up every item you ‘think’ might be valuable, it's definitely not worth it. Also, I need to question your wanting to use Craigslist. Is your expertise in furniture? If it is, that's the perfect platform. If it isn't furniture, you should really think about selling on one of the many online selling sites. With those or with the selling apps your selling 24 hours a day, it's incredibly easy and profitable.
Where to sell used boxers (besides Ebay) ?
LMAO....ill buy them, are you a hottie?
Why is baby stuff so expensive?
Because they know that we will buy it because we HAVE to. It is crazy how expensive things are. Especially formula & clothes. I'm doing 1/2 breast milk & half formula so it saves me a little bit of money. I also hit the clearence sales. I am fortunate because I have Aunts that help me out and my Mom helps out A LOT. I would suggest hitting garage sales for some of the stuff and clearence sales to help save money. Even with all the help I have it's tough to buy some of the things so I couldn't imagine not having any help. I hope this helps, even if it is a little bit.
Do you hate eBay?
Ebay was a good idea and fun until they got too greedy. Seeing that buyers attract sellers and so revenue for the company they made it extremely buyer friendly. Fine if buyers were honest, decent and fair but some just aren't and ebay dont care that these are robbing, blackmailing, defrauding and intimidating honest sellers. We lost the right to post negative feedback, ebay decided to have an evidence free full refund policy, they just dont listen to sellers or look at emails and feedback even though such would identify many fraudulant buyers, they sit uninterested when buyers demand money off after sales at the threat of bad feedback and they dismiss libellous, threatening and hurtful untrue emails from buyers or even just bidders as being ‘something you should accept'. All of these have happened to me. Now my family run shops (asian grocers) and if a customer came in demanding money back on previous purchases, attempting to ‘return' a tin of beans after buying a mobile phone, threatening to libel us around the neighbourhood if we dont give them cash, claiming we did not give them their groceries that they took home yesterday or simply telling us we are cheating filth, the police would have them but this all happens under ebay's nose and they just dont care. You waste your time contacting them to get platitudes and to be told ‘they value our business and are there to help'. Simple fact is that until sellers up and leave in sufficient numbers the game will remain about taking money from us, treating us like morons and pandering to any ‘buyer' regardless of their honesty. I won't be selling on there again and will just donate stuff to charity or send to landfill instead.