I've used Gumtree in the past for a couple of things. It's the same brand of twat on there. People arrange to come round then you never hear from them again. Or they turn up two hours late and start haggling. 

I've always typically just gotten rid of this stuff to a tip or charity shop. But there's so much junk great merch in my house, I'm slowly gearing up for a house move next year, and money hasn't exactly been growing on trees recently, I thought I should probably try and realise some of the value. It's mostly been going ok on eBay. Just normal people wanting a bargain. But this tv.

Sounds like a ballache, Monkey. Selling big/weighty items isn’t ideal on any platform.

I’ve just tested it and you can selected Other as the delivery service, then Freight. That removes the price from the listing, so anyone buying would need to contact you about it.

If you then add the Collect in Person option, you can put your postcode in, which is linked to mapping on the listing. That may help focus buyers.

Doing the above is going to generate unwanted contact, but if you want to sell it to a good home, then dealing with people is going to be part of that.

I know you said that money isn’t growing on trees, but given the issues to date and the inevitable tyre kickers coming to haggle with you, for £40, you may be better offering it to a charity.

Don't mix the two up

monkey wrote:

Order cancelled citing damage. Very apologetic message sent to buyer. 

NEW PLAN: Load child plus TV into car monday morning. Hurl child into school. Hurl TV into charity shop. Never see TV again. Think very carefully about any future items listed on eBay. The end?

I’ve had electrical items turned down by a charity shop before owing to potential risks of fire. Might want to ring ahead to the charity shop you’re thinking of and make sure they’ll take it before you load it into the car.

Barnados are taking this fucking bitch whether they like it or not.

Chuck it through their window, the charitable cunts

Yeah same thing happens here. There's a rag and bone man that prowls round. But it's been raining on and off over the past couple of days.

If I can't force this onto the charity shop, then that's what's happening.

Need to buy a cheap spade first though. Maybe buy a collection only spade from Swansea and get them to send it.

Just done that. The Salvation Army place near me is an electrical recycling centre apparently.

Just had an enquiry on Vinted for the Fitbit watch I'm selling.
"Hi, I'm interested, what's the best price?"

I replied
"Hi, I'm glad you're interested. The best price is the price I've asked for"

Imagine the steps...

It probably makes more sense to know that the advertised price I put is £120

Tell him £100 and a camel and it's his.

Who Truman Show'd Monkey?

That's it. My eBay career is officially over. The last of the inventory has gone out of the door, or didn't sell and won't sell and has been charity shopped. All in all, not too bad. The listing and the packing is a ballache. The Inventory Item From Hell was obviously a disaster. But mostly (barring any last minute funny business from buyers who have already received their merch) it's been fine. Reasonable questions, polite people. I went on youtube to research what I was doing before getting started and everything is 
"So, I got SCAMMED on eBay" 
"Top Ten SCAMS on eBay"
Not been my experience. I was shitting the bed when a £300 video camera was going through the post but the bloke that ordered it sent me a lovely message about the condition and the prompt delivery. Not going to be repeating this though. 

There's still three separate junk mountains in my house that I need to clear, but that's low-value tat that's getting booted straight to Barnados or the tip.