Ther Resource Collectables shop is where the best collectables can be found. You will find the shop in Hobart city, on Elizabeth Street, just 1 block from the mall.
Excellent for old wares like bakelite, depression glass and outdated gagets. Well priced for the collector.
You will find this Recycling Centre just 10 mins from Hobart on Chapel Street in Glenorchy.
They have an excellent selection of vintage and deco furniture, a whole room of vintage, good quality kitchenware, barware and lighting. Also a small but good collection of vintage clothing.
Excellent selection and great prices for the mid-century collector and some bargains for resellers.
Margate is about 25 mins south of Hobart on the Channel Hwy. Head to Kingston and take the road to Margate.
South Hobart Recycling Centre is off Macquarie St, 1 km from the Cascade Brewery.
These 2 tip shops have the best prices for collectors and sellers. You will find kitchenware, clothes, lighting, appliances, tools, furniture and more.
Great for a bargain and you never know what you might find.
Finds from the Margate and South Hobart Tip Shops.
All for no extra eBay fees!
It also allows you to:
Auctiva is at http://www.auctiva.com/
Retro standing lamp: $50
Have a good look around the house, in the garage, in the shed, the back of cupboards and see if you can find thing like:
1 thing to remember though is that others will never have the same sentimental attachment to your things as you have. So don’t get carried away and sell things you will regret loosing later.
Once you have a few ideas, follow the ‘will it sell’ post to see if your old trash could be someone else’s treasure!
Have a look at this post to see some of the things from our home that got us started….
When trying to work out if your item will sell (and how much you might get for it), the most useful information can be found by looking at completed listings. You need to be registered with eBay to search for ‘completed listings’. To search completed listings tick the box to the left of ‘completed listings’ in the ‘search options’ box (to the right of your search results page and below ‘narrow your search’). Then click ‘search’ at the bottom of the ‘search options’ box. The prices of completed listings are in red and green.
Green prices indicate the item sold and give you the final price. This will give you an idea of what your item may go for. If there are items exactly like or very similar to yours, have a closer look at the number of bidders. This will give you an idea of how popular your item is. The more bidders, the lower you can make the starting price and the more people this will attract. Please be aware there are no guarantees! There is always the risk of loosing out when starting the bidding at a low price.
Red prices indicate the item didn’t sell. Usually, if the item is similar or the same as yours, and it consistently doesn’t sell then there probably isn’t much point in trying to sell your item.
However, there are many other reasons why the item might not have sold and it is worth checking these out to be sure:
Before selling something on eBay, you should research the marketability, saleability and potential value of your item. The main aim is to answer these questions:
Keep an eye out for aluminium canisters, biscuit tins, cake tins, etc. We have had great success with these types of items. If you manage to find a set of canisters in good condition, you’ve hit the jackpot!The more information you give, the less reason the buyer has to doubt your item and the more confident they will be to bid.
Be honest – the buyer is relying on your description in place of seeing and touching the item themselves. If the winning bidder disagrees with your description – they will give you bad feedback. If you think you can cope with bad feedback - then why are you taking the time to read this post? We will write a post on feedback soon.
Change the font size etc to make it look eye catching!
Don’t worry about ‘listing designer’.
Click on a ‘visitor counter’ if you want – this will tell you how many people have looked at your listing and its free.
Step 9: Put in a starting price.
We recommend the ‘auction’ listing as opposed to the ‘buy it now’ price. Generally eBay works on the auction process. The idea is to generate bidding on your item and get the highest price someone is willing to pay.
The lower the starting price, the more interest you will get in the item. So start as low as you are willing to accept.
Once you get the hang of what is a sure seller, you can even start items at .99c! But getting a good price on an item started at .99c is by no means guaranteed!
We recommend listing for 7 days, it’s pretty much the standard and is a good length of time to allow for people to come across your item.
Start the listing immediately as scheduling costs more money.
‘Buy it now’ can be used where you will accept a price and are hoping the item will sell quickly.
Step 10: Select payment methods.
Select PayPal if you are listing the item internationally or if you are willing to accept payment by paypal. See our ‘PayPal’ post for more detail on the PayPal process.
We also recommend selecting:
The more payment methods you allow – the easier it is for buyers to pay and therefore the more likely they are to bid.
Step 11: Put in a postage rate.
See our post on ‘postage and packing’ for details on how to calculate postage.
Put in the regular domestic postage rate if it is standard.
If postage varies, select ‘Calculated: Cost varies by buyer location’ from the dropdown menu.
If you can put in a postage cost, all the better. This makes it much easier for buyers to be confident in bidding.
If you would like to list your item internationally, select ‘worldwide’ from the dropdown menu in ‘international postage’.
Step 12: Other things you’d like buyers to know.
Don’t worry about ‘buyer requirements’ or ‘returns policy’ at this stage.
In the ‘Additional Checkout Instructions’ section it is good to add details such as:
Click Continue and you are nearly there!
Click ‘preview your listing’ part way down the page to see what you have created.
Don’t worry about the ‘make your listing stand out’ stuff – just more cost.
Step 13: List your item!
Double check your fees. They should be about $1.50 to $2.
Relist the item immediately on eBay (reducing the price if possible) to take advantage of eBay's free relisting policy and also catching any potential buyers that were watching the item. We have often found that by relisting at a lower starting price gets more buyers interested, and results in a higher final sale price.
Hold off for a whilebefore relisting the item. It may have been the wrong time for your item for any number of reasons (too many similar items listed, etc, etc). If you relist on eBay within xx days of the original auction ending, it is still free to do so.
If you have accumulated many similar items that haven't sold you could relist them as a bulk lot. We have done this with McDonalds promo toys and Tazos. Paying another listing fee on a single item may not be worthwhile, but spread over 10+ items might make it an option worth considering.
Taking this concept a step further, we set up a market stall, of our own, at a local car boot sale. It was nothing fancy in terms of set-up or what we were selling, nor did we make much money, but it was an enjoyable day and effective in clearing out items that hadn't gone as well on eBay as we'd initially hoped. What it also means, is that you can take more risks on buying items to sell on ebay, knowing that you've got a back up of selling them at your market stall. We now even buy items purely to improve the range of our next market stall, knowing that we'll never list them on eBay.
How many to take? Usually 1 photo is enough. Additional photos should be taken if there is some detail that is much easier shown than explained – such as a makers mark on the base of a ceramic or a scratch on a piece of furniture. It really is a waste of time (and money) to put on multiple photos from slightly different angles.
Original photo.
Photo after editing.
