In message , Chris Green
writes
Stephen wrote:
Now that I have finished our forever home, I am now having a clearout of
my garage.

There is a vast range of tools, power tools and DiY materials to sell on
as I will either no longer use the tools concerned or use up whats left
of the DiY materials

Examples a

Box of carpet gripper rods
water cooled electric tile saw
Table top circular saw
Large angle grinder
Small angle grinder
Various step ladders
Chrome Window casement stays
10 packs of double gang switched twin sockets
plastic waste pipe
boxes of fuses
boxes of screws
Wood Chisels
allen key sets
Torx key sets
Extra long screwdriver

I've already tried Ebay..... Too much hassle, have to weigh and estimate
postage & packing, pay commission, risk of getting low wining bids and
some stuff just too impractical or not cost effective to put in the post.

I've also tried car booting. People seem to want something for nothing.
a manual Stanley wood plane brand new in box attracted an offer of £2!

I'vce had mixed results selling on at work, the ones that do sell get
the prices I am asking for them but no interest in the rest.

I have yet to try Gumtree....

I did wonder if people on this NG would actually be interested? The
location is Northamptonshire.

There's no easy way. I have quite a lot of similar sorts of stuff
that I've tried to offload over the past couple of years. I guess
it's the same reason that DIY stores like B&Q are going out of
business, no one does anything themselves any more. That means that
virtually no one wants any of the above, the only things that I think
*might* get takers on Freecycle or similar are the step ladders.

I've given up trying to get rid of tools and hardware.

Strangely agricultural/garden machinery goes for quite a lot. I've
recently sold an ancient tractor mounted boom sprayer (for almost as
much as it cost many years ago) and a Viking sickle bar mower (for
much more than I expected) both on eBay.

Probably the buttercup pony paddock brigade now the neighbouring farm
has gone to 24m and can't get through the gate:-)

Did you tell them they have to pass the training courses to buy the
chemicals?


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Tim Lamb