or best advice
including in person stores
It depends.
eBay reflects the true market price, so it’s a good place to sell. It’s also a great alternative to *zon if you don’t like Bezos.
craigslist is a great place to find bargains, but selection is a lot smaller, and you have constantly scan and respond quickly for the good stuff.
shopgoodwill.com, and also many local/regional goodwills have their own websites.
They’re a great resource to find bargains, as well as a good variety of obscure stuff, without much competition, but once again, selection is limited, and there are bidding wars.
tcgplayer.com for cards 'n shit.
Disc Replay
Oh, yeah, sure, ebay if we’re counting the internet too.
If you can find a locally owned, not-for-profit thrift store, that would be ideal. I’ve got one near me, it’s all volunteer run, any excess profits after building costs etc are paid go to charities. Local soup kitchens, that sorta thing. I feel good supporting it.
If you don’t have something like that near you, eBay is probably still best. If you’re in Canada, Kijiji is Canadian owned so you can feel better about supporting that rather than eBay. Facebook Marketplace can be good but you’ve gotta be careful, there’s lots of scams there.
A lot of hobbies will have used markets for that hobby specifically. Those will probably be best for those specific things. I’m not sure what you’re looking for specifically so I can’t offer suggestions on that obviously.
ram the prices are crazy (
Actually what ram do you need? I’ll gladly sell you some.
how much for 32gb (or 48gb) ddr5?
I sold my last ddr5 on Friday.
let me know when you have some avaible
If you’re building a computer it might be worthwhile to target older, ddr4 platforms in order to save money. Idk what your goal is.
already have a laptop but it only uses ddr5 🥀
Outside of eBay, I do alright with my local thrift stores and the occasional garage sale. It’s how I got an LCD tv from 2009 and an aerial antenna that gets most local stations with decent quality. I’ll probably look for a more powerful aerial, since it looks like it’s from the late '90s and doesn’t quite do the job for some of the movie channels that are available.
What kind of stuff are you looking for?
Also: Where?
tech (sadly ram)
usa
Normally reddit can go to hell, but r/hardwareswap will save you 15~20% over eBay because there’s no 3rd party taking a big chunk.
thanks
Still go to Craigslist sometimes
Here in Finland, tori is default. In Germany there is Kleinanzeigen. Often, flea markets are also quite good, especially when it comes to children’s stuff.
Flea markets by me are resold marked up temu or shein garbage. 🫤
Ebay is still the best. It sucks that local thrift stores are such garbage these days. Goodwill, Salvation Army, Knights of Columbus, they’re all pretty crummy these days. Goodwill went super corporate and became more like Big Lots (buying unsold department store stock) rather than a perpetual garage sale like it used to be. And prices for anything good are Ebay level.
Facebook marketplace seems to be a bunch of scams these days, not to say it isn’t useful for some stuff but I’ve noticed niche items are often scammers/fakes. Not sure what their goal is. Craigslist depends on location but in my area it’s shit now.
So since Ebay charges to list and sell stuff it’s still best since that weeds out most scammers and you’ll probably be paying Ebay prices wherever else you look at these days.
I haven’t shopped in a thrift store for a while but I absolutely hate that they’ve turned into that. It used to be great shopping there.
yea i did have to find a couple things i couldnt get elsewhere, or is sold in stores anymore on ebay.
Goodwill has shifted to putting their best stuff on their website which is run like eBay.
Really sucks that you can’t find the one-off awesome stuff there anymore.
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you used to be able to get that for less than 100??? how
I needed a new old motherboard and was able to get one on ebay… and then my account was suddenly suspended without explanation. Guess it’s good that I already got what I needed out of it?
I’ve managed to sell a couple of things on offerup recently, but man am I having trouble buying anything from it. It seems like people post there and then abandon the app forever while their listings just stay up indefinitely.
The value village near me is quite good, though most of them aren’t so good.
Local mom ‘n’ pop specialty shops are going to be the best, if you happen to have one nearby. Usually you get a fair deal near market price, without the bloat from eBay and Paypal taking cuts.
Thrift stores and yard sales have occasional great deals, but for the most part everyone knows if their item is worth something these days, so almost only junk goes there. And even if the donators don’t realize, I think most thrift stores will filter valuable items out and sell them online.
One thing I really miss is the Used CD market. I know you can still get second hand CDs, but in the bad old days every music store would buy used CDs and sell them for like $7-$14 depending on how popular. In a mid-size town like mine, that’d be half a dozen stores.
I used to go to a music store every Sat and just flip through their used stuff. I’d pick up a CD or two every week and before you know it, I had a collection that’s robust enough that I’ve never created an account with a streaming music service.
I miss the used graphics cards market in the early to mid 00’s in west europe. I could get a very usable graphics card for sub 100 euro.
Used DVD market is extremely cheap here now-a-days, with most titles going for 1 euro.
Garage sales. 200/200 times, garage sales
At least in my area there’s a bunch of garage sale scalpers that go as soon as it starts or earlier and nab all the best shit to resell
That’s pretty gross, and I hope their bloodlines end in crimson tragedy.
I don’t really understand this… are you complaining that people are buying stuff at garage sales so you can’t buy it? That’s… how they work? Is there something about a garage sale that makes it wrong to buy stuff there to resell?
It’s the act of turning it into a business. Going in and often hassling the people putting on the sale while they’re still setting up in order to take all the best stuff that they turn around and sell for a much higher price. It’s predatory and annoying and takes away from community members who might’ve really cherished this guitar or whatever that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford. But you know, capitalism’s gotta capitalize.
It’s Cuck porn, 100%
Poshmark for clothes.
For the Netherlands:
- Marktplaats.nl
- Ebay.nl for tech you want to import from abroad (useful for slightly better deals)
The local “kringloop” (closest translation would be goodwill) is also always a good place to check out for certain things.
Gotta be Craigslist. There’s a small learning curve due to the simplicity of bulletin board sales, but there’s zero overhead so all money stays local. Peter Thiel gets none of it.
