Adding It Up – June

As I suspected, June was a slower month for additional income generated from eBay and Amazon Marketplace sales. I managed to make £15.62. This was from selling an old Nintendo N64 game, a pair of  Fat Face jeans, an Xbox 360 game, and a book about the Spanish Civil War. The small sales rate was mostly due to me going away for a week, so I didn’t want anything to sell while I was unable to deal with enquiries or post things off. Of course, I could have listed items beforehand and made sure they ended after I got back, but I was using the holiday as an excuse to not list things. Plus, if I had some live listings while I was away, I would have been checking my phone all the time.

I noticed recently that eBay have added a ‘Sold Listings’ function to their search facility. This enables searches to be made on items that actually sold, rather than just completed, which is a mixture of sold and unsold items. ‘Sold Listings’ has always been on the eBay mobile app, but was curiously missing on the web version. It’s good to see all the green sold items in one place!

At this mid-way point in the year, the total made so far after all fees, costs, and postage is £254.47. That includes the money made in July so far, which is already at £39.50. Not too bad, really. I even have another £10 in the pipeline from an old butane gas bottle that I sold for collection. It was left by the previous owners of the house, so no item outlay, no paypal fees and no postage costs. If only they could all be like that…

In fact, the house and garden has yielded several items that I’ve managed to sell for profit over the last couple of years. This includes things like steel girders, two air conditioning units, a kitchen storage unit, and hundreds of clay roof tiles. All because the previous owners couldn’t be bothered to sell or get rid of them when they left.

Has anyone else inherited profitable junk from a house they’ve moved into?