Zapper.co.uk

Love this app/company! I cleaned out boxes of old books (wish I had found this before I donated all my old CDs and DVDs). You don’t make much for each book, but it was nice to get a check for £45 for three boxes of books that I will never read again. The entire process was seamless with regular updates until it came time to receive the cheque - after two weeks, I still had not been paid. I sent an email and received a response almost immediately, and the cheque was printed and sent the next day - great service. Just a note - each box you send must be under 10kg, or the courier won’t collect it. They do tell you this, but it is somewhat buried in the shipping instructions.

Overall this app works well for me. Have used it 3 times over a couple of years to sell over £100 of gear. Good points are speed of scanning, printing as many postage labels as you need, speed of processing and email updates at all stages. Querks are it double-scans items (as other users have noted) and then objects. In fact it doesn’t let you sell the same thing twice - ever - which is a bit odd as we cant be the only people to have his’n’hers copies of stuff. Prices range from 1p to several £ for books, textbooks generally fetching a good price. Payment by cheque is a bit old school, but I guess it keeps bank details private.

I’m new to all this so maybe all selling sites are this bad. There are several problems with using the app. It’s quick at doing the bar codes so that’s great but will take a load at once. It doesn’t mention that you need all address fields filled until you’re about to press accept to parcel up and go! And finally finding all the information you need regarding size weight etc are at the closing point. Well we’ll see how it goes from now.