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For those in europe - check out vinted.com

My wife uses Vinted (UK) for selling hers and the kids clothes, usually single-to-double digit values at most (or she uses Oleo to just give it away). It works _fairly_ well from what I've heard, but she does have the occasional issue with people complaining about things and sending them back for obtuse reasons, often hardly worth it because the value was so low, the cost of the shipping there and back eclipsed the value of the item.

I wonder at times whether this is their game, hoping people will just tell them not to bother sending it back and they get a refund anyway.

As for ebay, I stopped selling anything on there years ago, well over a decade, when someone tried to scam me out of a laptop but failed. If something is valuable enough for me to sell, I sure as shit am not selling it on eBay.

More often than not, I give away my valuable tech that I'm done with, because I'd rather get nothing for it, and give it to someone who'll appreciate it than risk being scammed by some scumbag.

This way, friends and family get my hand-me-down PCs, laptops, phones, etc for nothing and they're still, by the time I'm done with them far better than something they'd buy with their budgets. When I buy something, I factor its lifetime in my possession into it's cost, I effectively expect £0 value left in it when I'm done or I don't buy it; everybody wins.

My wife is also on Vinted. We use it also for young children clothing. It is great if you use cheap shipping options, and combine items.

For old computer stuff, I gave away quite some stuff to people driving to Ukraine. This then goes to kids or their cause.

I have what I think is probably a weird mindset that practically everything I own, short of maybe a car or a house, I assume is worth £0 after I've owned it.

Probably indicative of not having a very good business brain. However, it always seems strange to me when when people buy things and keep track of their used values the whole time they own it - expecting at some point to trade it in.

On a whim I once bid on a "collectors" type Switch game. Me and someone else raised the price near the end of the auction. Not being used to eBay bidding I wasn't ready near the final seconds and got outbid.

A couple of days later I saw the same item relisted. I wouldn't be surprised if the person I was bidding against was just there to pump the price for the seller, or was an alt account of the seller. Obviously against eBay's TOS but I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.

Vinted seems popular amongst people who never used eBay for buying and selling commodities like clothes. Is it any good for selling higher value specialist stuff like electronics, musical instruments etc?

For higher value goods people usually prefer others, I think Backmarket.com is one of the main ones (it's definitely the main option for electronics in France) but there's also Refurbed (know it from Belgium but I think it's German) or Rebuy (know it from the Netherlands but it's German as well) for example.

Each of those three claims to be the largest one in some metric.

in my experience it's good for buying them (i.e. people not knowing items will go for multiples of what they've listed on ebay)

Isn't that just ebay anyway?

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