New or Used?

[Lancecastor]

Most people buy used houses and in the USA, used car sales are 2.5 times the new car market in units.

But what about other stuff?

Do you buy used items...and do you sell your unwanted stuff?


(Last week i bought a nearly new Weber bbq for $40... The seller's wife didn't like waiting for the charcoal to heat up. $129-159 news plus tax.

On saturday i bought a dealer-maintained low hours Honda 9.9 outboard for $900... Theyre $2700 plus freight, pdi and tax new.

I already have a buyer for my 5, purchased last year for $350, for $500.)

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Queen does. Sells it too. On the internet.

:shrug:

I don't have the patience. If I want something, I just go to the appropriate box store and get it...

 

[Lancecastor]

I don't have much patience for big box stores, especially during peak shopping times.

Brainless clerks, web sites that lie about how many are in stock, refugee sized lineups for the cash register, door dings from the parking lot....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I work an odd schedule, so I'm not there at peak hours.


Walmart at 3AM is a very scary place...


Wanna buy a $7,000 John Deere for $600?

 

[Lancecastor]

You don't buy used items, ever?

 

[KarenB59]

Wish I could find a Weber grill for $40

I'd rather go to a yard sale and find something used for a good price than shop in a department store anytime. Right now I'm listening to a old Packard Bell radio that has to warm up & only plays AM stations I paid $10 for.

Tonight I'll sit outside in an old metal garden chair I also paid $10 for.

 

[Adre]

Occasionally furniture. Last used car I bought was around 1995. I wish I had the patience because it feels good to get a quality item at a much reduced price.

 

[Lancecastor]

Occasionally furniture. Last used car I bought was around 1995. I wish I had the patience because it feels good to get a quality item at a much reduced price.

AJ also mentioned "patience" as a factor.

I'm not quite sure I understand that...as I said, I find most retail stores try my patience, big time.

Retail stores are increasingly becoming showrooms to look at things you then order online for delivery to your door.

 

[Miasorrow]

I do not mind using something if someone offers it, but I would not go and buy a used item, I prefer not to have something instead of buying it used.

Contrary to people, material things do not age well.

 

[chillywilly2]

People that can afford to buy new, do, those that can't, don't.

Personally, I don't want somebody elses dirty old junk.

 

[b40588]

Grill

Last year I got a full size Weber for 20 dollars off Craigslist. The guy was moving from MO to CA and the the grill is barely used.

 

[Lancecastor]

People that can afford to buy new, do, those that can't, don't.

Personally, I don't want somebody elses dirty old junk.

I hope this remains the prevailing attitude.

As long as you buy new at retail, you ensure a steady supply of used goods at outsized savings.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Lancecastor]

Last year I got a full size Weber for 20 dollars off Craigslist. The guy was moving from MO to CA and the the grill is barely used.

Score!

New: $239.92 plus sales tax in Canada.

https://www.amazon.ca/Weber-741001-One-Touch-2-Inch-Kettle/dp/B00004RALU

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You don't buy used items, ever?

You made houses and cars the exceptions, so no.

 

[Lancecastor]

You made houses and cars the exceptions, so no.

No antiques, no collectibles?

God Bless You, American Consumer!

 

[Disgustipated]

No AJ stories of buying and fixing up old muscle cars and selling them for a YUGE profit?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have no use for antiques or collectables, but I think they should be excluded as a subset of the group "used."

 

[chillywilly2]

I hope this remains the prevailing attitude.

As long as you buy new at retail, you ensure a steady supply of used goods at outsized savings.

Not even you would want it..when I buy something, its to keep it, I use it till its wore out

 

[chillywilly2]

I have no use for antiques or collectables, but I think they should be excluded as a subset of the group "used."

Musty smelly old things buried in somebodys basement...no thanks

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Musty smelly old things buried in somebodys basement...no thanks

Yeah, they are not purchased to be "used."

 

[Lancecastor]

Yeah, they are not purchased to be "used."

I keep my digital camera, business cards, usb sticks, pens etc in antique tobacco tins on my desk.

My desk was custom made in Belgium for a university professor...it's a lovely piece.

 

[chillywilly2]

I keep my digital camera, business cards, usb sticks, pens etc in antique tobacco tins on my desk.

My desk was custom made in Belgium for a university professor...it's a lovely piece.

Tobacco tins are not antique...they are just empty and old

If I want something, I get it new...I don't like other peoples dirt on my stuff

If you can't afford new, well, I guess you gotta live with it

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My digital camera is gathering dust on a shelf...



I have a phone. I bought it new.

 

[Lancecastor]

in Canada....

Canadians bought and sold more than 1.8 billion second-hand items last year, an increase of 29 million items from 2014's level. That's an average of 77 items for each Canadian adult.

The popularity of the second-hand market is greater in Western Canada than it is in the East of the country, the survey said.

People in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were the most likely to have used second-hand selling, at 87 per cent, followed by those in Alberta (82 per cent), British Columbia (80 per cent) and Ontario (79 per cent).

Second-hand sales were somewhat less prevalent in eastern regions, such as Quebec, at 67 per cent, and the Atlantic provinces, where just 60 per cent had done so in the past year.

Some items are more likely to be given a second chance than others. The vast majority of items sold fall into one of the following five ranked categories:

Clothing, shoes and fashion accessories.
Entertainment products.
Baby clothing and accessories.
Games, toys and video games.
Indoor/outdoor household and decoration items.
By adding the first and third categories together, sales of things that people wear accounted for 40 per cent of transactions across the country last year, the survey's authors said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kijiji-second-hand-1.3470695