Selling an outboard engine

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I am tidying up an outboard engine to sell and am a bit dissappointed that Boats & Outboards only seems to cater for trade sales of outboards so the choice seems to be Gumtree or Preloved. I have discounted e bay as their final value fees at 10% would be over £100. My question is whether t is best to use Gtree or Pre and whether there is any known problem with these sales sites. I plan to show a video clip of it going, will show it running, keeping a healthy distance and only accept cash or Bank Transfer. I would leave it a for while but I cannot move in my garage.
 
Ebay have regular 'Max £1 selling fee' promotions. In fact they are so regular, they are a bit like the old MFI sales. (DFS for younger viewers)
 
If you list something on ebay as a classified ad you pay a flat fee which is reasonable and do the transaction outside of ebay, only if it's an auction do you pay 10%. Or at least that used to be the case & I think still is. Preloved and gumtree are free so you may as well stick it on there as well but they get less traffic than ebay...
 
duncan99210 said:
There’s also Facebook marketplace, either just the straight marketplace or via one of the groups such as Yachts and ayachtybbits for sale.
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Never Grumble said:
As above facebook market place, it's free.
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Yes I use thr FB Market place quite a lot as clearing Boating Gear etc; it seems like it attracts Local buyers rather that them miles away types that cannot get to you yet; also Market Place have links to dedicated Boating and Yaching sales groups; about 10 at the mo ? I found these fb boating site very good to both buy and sell from; suggest that for starters log onto FB and then Market Place and do a trial advert search say looking for an outboard and test the results sometimes Outboard Engineers post on them asking to buy outboards to do up; so suggest that you can then get an idea about what prices similar outboard sell for ?
This Forum also as a buy and a selllistings but the max price I recall is £400

Best of luck
 
hi co8 ----sold an outboard on boats and outboards------got a good response----quick sale and the price i wanted---------------------ps was 10 years ago
 
Might mention that there are Semi Proffesional Outboard Service fellas that aquire outboards cheap then service them, then sell on face book Market Place; often I have found these to be good buys as well serviced, change impeller etc and are often not that much more that Mr Fella off loading his dodgy Outboard with no warranty or even serviced it properly.

But then again might depend upon the size /value of an ob ; the smaller up to say 5hp can be serviced easily whereas the 40 to 100 hp might want specialist equipment etc plus 'the knowedge'
 
I notice that some sellers on eBay who sell JCB's put a photo of the JCB which they want to sell and put the sale price a Pound and say "This is just the wheel not for sale" but viewers are able to contact them and ask how much the machine is.
You could take a photo of the Propeller and the rest of the engine and advertise that and say Can be seen working.
 
I think eBays £1 offer is only the listing fee - if you list the item & sell it, the full sales commission is charged quite separately from the listing fee.
 
Apollo Duck is free. sold a dinghy there.

Facebook marketplace seems to be chaotic in terms of searching for things, sometimes it's even hard to find ads you know are there.
I have found Gumtree quite effective.

The traps with ebay's £1 selling fees is that it only applies to the initial listing period, so if it doesn't sell and you accept the invitation to re-list, then fees pile on.
 
Apart from frequent £1 max. fee selling offers, the reach of Ebay can often result in a much better selling price. Admittedly this is probaby dependant on items located in a well populated area if they're collection only. Don't forget that in lockdown, travelling to pick up an item such as an o/b is probably illegal.
The £1 fee is the total selling fee. WS's post above is incorrect. I've used these offers several times.
 
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Wandering Star said:
I think eBays £1 offer is only the listing fee - if you list the item & sell it, the full sales commission is charged quite separately from the listing fee.
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No, it is the final selling fee. You can actually list for free if you don't add on any extras. If you take Paypal as payment though you will have approx. 10% fee to pay to them. I get the £1 selling fee offer every other weekend.

Have myself recently bought an outboard via Facebook marketplace, good for getting local cash buyers together, and no fees.
 
Recently sold an outboard via Facebook Marketplace. Local buyer, no problems, no doorstep haggling. Cash. I would use it again.
 
There are groups on Facebook for things like outboards for sale, and RIBs and outboards for sale. Stick it on these groups, also any groups local to you if you're by the coast, and also on FB Marketplace.
 
earlybird said:
Apart from frequent £1 max. fee selling offers, the reach of Ebay can often result in a much better selling price. Admittedly this is probaby dependant on items located in a well populated area if they're collection only. Don't forget that in lockdown, travelling to pick up an item such as an o/b is probably illegal.
The £1 fee is the total selling fee. WS's post above is incorrect. I've used these offers several times.
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Thanks for clarifying that as I was not sure. However I wonder if there are any groups excluded like vehicles etc?
 
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