"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 May 2021 20:02:44 +0100, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 26 May 2021 12:53:24 +0100, "Commander
Kinsey" wrote:


I guess IIUC UPS would wrap things for shipping if I sold on ebay, but
I'm not ready for that yet.

Has to be a fair price to bother with that. Ebay take 10%, then you pay
shipping. If it's not going to make a profit, put it on freecycle,

The freecycle here is dying away. Get far fewer emails from them than 5
years ago. Though someone did take my gas lawnmower on Monday, and I
got a small stack of Handyman magazines yesterday.

But those are exceptions.

there will be someone who wants to play with old stuff, and you don't
have to bother packing it, they come and collect it.

Ebay reaches more people. Those here who read Freecycle, or NextDoor,
or a community webpage I could use, don't know how to fiddle with any of
my old stuff.

I've never found anyone on Ebay to come and collect.

Plenty do that with the bigger stuff in big citys and with cars, boats,
houses etc etc etc.

Ebay buyers seem to expect postage.

Plenty don't with the bigger stuff in big citys and with cars, boats, houses
etc etc etc.

Gumtree works best here for come get it stuff that's too big to post.

Bull****.

Freecycle is fairly good too.

Facebook local buy swap sell groups work much better.