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There’s a room in most houses that has stopped being a room. It holds boxes, a bike nobody rides, two lamps that don’t match anything, and the bread maker that came out once in 2019. You’ve been meaning to deal with it. In November the whole suburb will be out on a Saturday morning looking […]

Every spring, the new phone launches push a wave of last year’s handsets onto Australian marketplaces, and some of the prices are very tempting. Most of those sellers are simply upgrading and want a fair return on a phone they looked after. A few, though, are selling something that will cause you trouble the moment […]

Markets are the original classifieds. You see the item in front of you, you haggle face to face and you carry it home the same morning. Melbourne has a deep market culture, with something on almost every weekend of the year. The trick is knowing which one suits what you want, and that is what […]

Most buyers think a faulty private purchase means a refund, and most sellers think “as is” wipes the slate clean. The truth sits in between, and the paperwork is what makes it hold. The law is drier than the car, but it is the part that bites. Private sale, not a shop sale The consumer […]

A good item with a lazy listing will lose to an average item with a clear one. That is the first thing to understand about selling secondhand online. Buyers scroll quickly, and they decide in seconds whether to tap or keep going. Most listings fail for four fixable reasons, not because nobody wants the item. […]