Yes, there is always someone who wants the things you don’t.

Thanks for the info, I’ll be joining some BSS sites now. I have plenty of junk, hopefully someone finds them treasures!

I had a bag of ‘junk’ from my mums house sitting in my shed. We had a backyard bonfire one weekend and this bag was meant for the fire. Luckily, my son fossicked through it and found 2 lovely little watches. Neither work, but both are made by a famous jeweller, who no longer does jewellery, and my son can only find in museums. A treasure for sure, that was classed as trash

I need to get my butt into gear and start getting serious

I always get fed up with people that say sold then arrange a pick up day and then never turn up it kind of puts you off selling anything again

Oh I really need to get onto these.. Just haven’t found anything onfacebook yet.

What groups did you join? Could you share them with us?

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  • • ritareet replied
    • 08 Feb 2015 , 11:03 pm

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  I live in the west of Melbourne so have joined sites that service my surrounding area only. I find these sites on Facebook. If you type in the search bar “buy swap sell…” And then write the name of your suburb or next suburb from you, lots of options should come up. Select them and request to join. It’s best to join ones that are in your suburb or neighbouring suburbs as you will get a greater response rate as people are less likely going to want to travel 30mins to buy the smaller items. And visa versa with reguard to you purchasing.

I have sold lots in this manner a girlfriend got me onto it a while ago and I can’t believe how much money I have put aside. It is a little more time consuming than a garage sale, that is over with on the day, but people certainly generally pay more money than at garage sales.

my husband wanted a super nintendo. he paid $100 for one! old systems are worth money!

totally agree! it really is amazing the things people try to sell and the things people buy! We have only just tried selling a few things on buy swap and sell pages and its amazing that things are sole within an hour of posting.

This is so true I’ve only stared doing it an it’s amazing what people will buy off these sites

Interesting read…thank you. As you mention – it all adds up.

I used to live in an area where BSS was very lucrative. I bought tins of stuff of there from furniture to bikes and when I moved I sold most of my unwanted stuff on there too. I have now moved to a major city and found that BSS are not as common here, you would think it would be the opposite. I miss my daily BSS fix.

Certainly seems like the way to go, I love a good bargain and financial good thinking.

I am just about to move home – this might be a good way to leave behind those items that we don’t really need – and pay for the moving fees!

I will have to give this a go. I stopped using Ebay awhile ago as I was sick of paying the fees, and then getting slogged PayPal fees ending up with nothing. I am over Gumtree for all the people text and email and organise time for pickup and then they don’t turn up…..heaps of time wasters on Gumtree. I will have to try this out for sure. Thank you for sharing.

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  • • ritareet replied
    • 24 Jan 2015 , 11:02 pm

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  Lol, you know, there is something odd about gumtree. People generally send me an email with interest to buy, but when I reply back I never hear from them again. It’s strange.

Thanks I would love to sell some stuff that is just sitting around but to tell you the truth I am terrified to as I do not know where and how to start

I love trawling through buy swap and sell, you never know what you may come accross.

I am also involved in a couple of local buy and sell groups and have bought some bargains and sold some of our unwanted items too – it’s great. We also have one for second hand school uniforms which is brilliant!

I’m so going to check this out, I have so much crap it’s time for a clean out!