What’s the best place to buy and sell lathes and millers.

[mark gallimoreParticipant @markgallimore42326]

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Homeworkshop.org.uk

edited for spelling

Edited By Robbo on 10/11/2016 19:26:37

[MalcBParticipant @malcb52554]

Lathes.co.uk

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

eBay

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Google………..

Takes you to all those sources, and so many more.

[Mike E.Participant @mikee-85511]

I've had good luck with Gumtree, it works well for me. 

Purchased my mill from an add on  lathes .co.uk 

Edited By Mike E. on 10/11/2016 20:54:11

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Lathes.co.uk and Ebay both charge,

With Ebay and paypal it's about 23%

Lathes.co.uk is £38.40 per advert for 6 months but the problem is they often don't remove them to pad the pages out so you get hounded.

Homeworkshop is free.

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

Yes eBay charges but it reaches a big audience and because it's an auction you will probably get a better price. If you set your own price on a classified site you can be too low and not know it, or too high and not sell.

[Roger Provins 2Participant @rogerprovins2]

Posted by John Stevenson on 10/11/2016 20:52:33:

Lathes.co.uk and Ebay both charge,

With Ebay and paypal it's about 23% …………………….

More like 14% (Actually seller's fee on eBay are 10% of final value including P/P and PayPal's are 3.4% + 20p).

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 10/11/2016 21:40:42

[Alan Waddington 2Participant @alanwaddington2]

Have sold a fair bit of machinery on ebay, it's free and safe if you use your loaf and play the system

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Posted by Alan Waddington 2 on 10/11/2016 21:55:47:

Have sold a fair bit of machinery on ebay, it's free and safe if you use your loaf and play the system

Presumably by breaking the ebay rules, like some Traders eg "Please phone me before clicking Buy It Now"

[Alan Waddington 2Participant @alanwaddington2]

I simply include a telephone number in case interested parties have any questions about the machine……nothing wrong with that surely.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

If you are advertising do put some effort in to it. I can't stand the people who slap a ruler somewhere in the picture because they are too bone idle to measure it. Or provide a blurred picture of a motor plate or other item reliant on reading what they can't be bothered to copy into the text description.

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

It is also irritating when there is no photo with the advert

Mick

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Not to mention when they are too lazy to rotate their pics. Do they seriously think I'm going to lie sideways just to look at their ad?

[mark gallimoreParticipant @markgallimore42326]

Thanks for all the replies chaps – ebay seems to be the most popular suggestion by quite a long way.

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

If your selling on ebay ALWAYS insist on paypal. It sorts the genuine bidders from the dreamers and you get paid before collection, hence no tyre kickers or bartering.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Alan Waddington 2 on 10/11/2016 21:55:47:

Have sold a fair bit of machinery on ebay, it's free and safe if you use your loaf and play the system

.

… I wonder where ebay's costs get recovered

… increased charges to those that don't 'play the system'

[old AlParticipant @oldal]

Rotating photos…………….

I have a policy, that anything that needs rotating is hiding something and therefore not worth looking at in the first place.

It is generally motorbikes on EBAY i look at, but its simple basic good avertising, or am i just old fashion or just too lazy to do it for myself.

[Nigel McBurney 1Participant @nigelmcburney1]

For mills drills lathes grinders etc I find the sales and wants on Traction Talk is very good The site for for full size and model traction engine enthusiasts,

[Alan Waddington 2Participant @alanwaddington2]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 11/11/2016 09:56:13:

Posted by Alan Waddington 2 on 10/11/2016 21:55:47:

Have sold a fair bit of machinery on ebay, it's free and safe if you use your loaf and play the system

.

… I wonder where ebay's costs get recovered

… increased charges to those that don't 'play the system'

Don't kid yourself, Ebay is simply milking it's virtual monopoly for all it's worth…..as soon as they got a strangle hold on the market, charges went sky high, and insisting sellers offered Paypal was just another money making racket…..sod all to do with folks selling outside of ebay that's for sure.

[Peter LayfieldParticipant @peterlayfield]

This site has the potential of being ideal for the sale of genuine model engineering equipment

and models, but as the majority of followers are unable to access the sellers contact details

it is virtually useless, stick with Homeworkshop, it is a great site

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Peter Layfield on 11/11/2016 20:37:31:

This site has the potential of being ideal for the sale of genuine model engineering equipment and models, but as the majority of followers are unable to access the sellers contact details it is virtually useless …

.

Peter,

As the threshold for seeing contact details is [we are told] a mere five forum postings, you should now have reached the elite status.

MichaelG.

[Sad to think that "the majority of followers" can't be bothered to make a few contributions to the forum]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Our web wizard is back in rude health, so the number of postings has been reduced, however those first postings still have to be manually approved.

Those who think five was draconian should consider that another forum I am a member of requires you to make FIFTY postings before you can access their classifieds.

We are not the only site that has been targeted by scammers.

Neil

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