Listing on eBay can be a time consuming chore, and when your item doesn’t sell, you may be wondering what to do next. Donating your items to a charity shop is a good idea, but there are other things you can do to release some cash from your unwanted items.

Don’t be surprised if your eBay item does not sell first time round. I usually relist items six times before I stop trying to sell them on eBay.

1. Relist your item. You can try amending the title, adding more to the description (such as measurements), changing the format of your listing (from auction to Buy It Now or vice versa), listing at a different time of day and amending your price.
2. Take new photographs or add extra photographs to your listing.
3. Try selling your item somewhere else online. There’s Facebook selling pages, Depop, Amazon Marketplace, Zapper, Ziffit, Music Magpie and Gumtree, to name a few.
4. Look for a local auction house to sell your items – job lots, large furniture items and antiques are well sought after.
5. Take your items to sell at a car boot sale.
6. If your item is rare or specialist, then try finding a local dealer who may be interested in purchasing it from you.

What do you do when your eBay items don’t sell?

Be sure to check out what to do when a buyer opens an eBay case against you.

Selling on eBay has just become a whole lot easier. From 13 May 2014, eBay are now offering sellers 20 free listings a month across all categories except Motors, starting at any price. For any subsequent listings, the charge will be 35p per listing, regardless of the starting price. This replaces the current promotion where sellers can list 100 items a month, starting at 99p, for free. You will also be able to schedule 20 items for free a month – so you can start your listings any time that you want.

The final value fees still stay at 10% and there is no budge on eBay’s policy about charging fees for postage costs.

You get 20 free listings per calendar month, and you can see how many listings you’ve used so far by signing in to eBay, clicking on “All Selling” under the “Sell” heading and scrolling down.

What this means for me?
I will now make an effort to ensure I list 20 items per month, but I will focus on my big ticket/higher value items first. If they have sold and I still have free listings, then I’ll turn to my cheaper items.

What does this mean for free listing weekends?
At the moment this is uncertain. There is some speculation that these 20 free listings a month will replace the free listing weekends, but eBay have said to “look out for our price promotions that we will continue to run regularly. These may give you opportunities to list more items without incurring an insertion fee.”

For full information you can read the eBay announcement here. If you’ve been put off selling on eBay due to buyers opening cases against you then be sure to check out Help! An eBay Buyer Has Opened a Case Against Me.

Yay, another free eBay listing weekend is with us – this time covering the Easter weekend, 18-21 April.

Create up to 100 listing(s) with a starting price of £1 or more in an eligible category during the promotion period using the auction-style or fixed price format and you won’t pay an insertion fee for each listing during the promotion period. Full details can be found here.

By invitation only, but sometimes people don’t get the emails, so give it a try on Friday to see if you’re eligible.

 

By invitation only – some people have reported that they’ve not received the email, so I suggest you log in and try to create a listing to see whether it is free for you or not. 

Check your inbox to see if you’re eligible for free eBay listing this weekend, 22nd and 23rd February 2014.

Create up to 100 listings with a start price of £1 or more and you’ll receive free listing. Final value fees still apply to your listings, and you will be charged for listing upgrades such as adding a Buy It Now price to your auctions or listing in two categories.

As usual, I suggest you create a 1-day listing on Saturday and relist anything that hasn’t sold on Sunday for 7 or 10 days.

Full terms and conditions are listed here.