The short version
- Typical range: £70 – £300 — see the full oven value guide
- What decides your price: condition, and how well you evidence it in photographs
- Cost to sell here: nothing, at any price
- Category: Kitchen & Appliances
Before you photograph it
Ten minutes here is worth more than anything else you will do. Buyers are deciding between your listing and someone else’s, and preparation is what visibly separates the two.
- Clean the interior, the door glass between the panes if it separates, and the shelves and runners.
- Test every function — fan, conventional, grill, timer and light — and record which work.
- Measure the aperture dimensions and read the model and electrical load from the plate on the door frame.
The photographs that sell an oven
Four photographs do almost all the work. Shoot in daylight, near a window, with the item against something plain — and do not use the flash, which flattens texture and hides exactly what buyers are trying to see.
- The oven front on, door closed, clean
- The interior with the door open and the light on
- The rating plate showing make, model and electrical load
- The door seal, the shelves and runners, plus any chipped enamel or scratched glass
Photograph the flaws too. It feels counterproductive, but a listing that shows the worst of an item gets fewer questions, fewer withdrawn offers and fewer arguments at handover. Buyers who can see the damage stop imagining something worse.
Writing the title and description
Type, fuel and size: “Built In Single Electric Oven, 60cm, Fan Assisted” or “Double Built Under Oven, Electric”. Single and double, built-in and built-under are all distinct buyer searches and getting the wording right stops a stream of enquiries you cannot fulfil.
Then state these in the description, because a buyer who has to ask is a buyer who might not bother:
- Aperture width, height and depth in centimetres
- Single or double, built-in or built-under, and fuel type
- Electrical load, and whether it requires a dedicated cooker circuit rather than a plug
- Which functions have been tested and work, and the interior condition
What buyers will actually ask
You will receive the same three messages about an oven. Answering them in the listing itself removes the back-and-forth, and answering them well when they do arrive is what turns an enquiry into a sale.
Give the exact external dimensions rather than a nominal size. Kitchen apertures are standard in theory and stubbornly variable in practice.
Read the load from the plate and say. Most built-in ovens must be hardwired to a cooker circuit rather than plugged in, and that is an electrician’s job.
Test each one and answer function by function. A failed fan element is a common and repairable fault, but the buyer needs it disclosed to price the repair.
Pricing it so it actually sells
Start from the honest condition grade rather than the price you hope for. WishThrift listings use five grades — New with Tags, Like New, Good, Fair and For Parts — and what each grade means is worth reading before you choose, because grading up is the most expensive mistake sellers make. It does not raise the price; it produces a buyer who arrives expecting something else.
The oven value guide prices all five grades for this item. Pick your grade, take the figure, and if you sit between two grades price toward the lower one. Items priced honestly sell faster than items priced hopefully, and on a free platform there is no fee eating the difference anyway.
What you keep, compared
On a £185 sale — roughly the middle of the range for an oven — here is what the commission-charging platforms would take, and what you would keep on each:
| Where you sell it | Fee | You keep |
|---|---|---|
| WishThrift | £0 | £185 |
| Poshmark | −£37 | £148 |
| eBay | −£25 | £160 |
| Mercari | −£18 | £167 |
| Etsy | −£12 | £173 |
Seller-side rates verified 26 Jul 2026 — Poshmark: 20% commission on sales of $15 and above; eBay: 13.6% final value fee, plus a per-order fee; Mercari: flat 10% selling fee; Etsy: 6.5% transaction fee, plus a listing fee and payment processing. Percentages are applied to the sterling figure above; the fixed per-order and processing charges those platforms add are quoted in their own currency and are not included here, so the real deductions are slightly larger. Full breakdown: marketplace selling fees compared.
Timing and getting it to the buyer
Lifts around kitchen refits, which cluster in spring and early autumn. Clean, tested, recent ovens in standard 60cm apertures sell within a week or two.
Collection, two people. Have it out of the housing and safely isolated before the buyer arrives, tape the door shut, and remove the shelves so they cannot slide and crack the inner glass.
WishThrift does not process payments or arrange delivery — you and the buyer agree both directly — so confirm payment has cleared before the item leaves your hands, and keep the conversation on the site so there is a record of what was agreed.
Ready to list it? It takes about two minutes, costs nothing, and there is no commission when it sells — create a free account or see how selling works.
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove and sell a built-in oven myself?
Isolating and disconnecting a hardwired oven should be done by an electrician or someone genuinely competent to do it, and reconnection at the buyer’s end certainly should. Say in the listing that professional installation is needed.
What is a used oven worth?
Typically £70 to £300, with double ovens and recent premium brands above. See the oven value guide for the condition-by-condition figures.
Is a scratched door glass a problem?
Cosmetically yes, structurally usually not. Photograph it clearly. If the glass is cracked rather than scratched, sell it as spares or repair, because heated glass under stress is not something to gamble with.
See also: what a used oven is worth · browse live kitchen & appliances listings · condition grades explained.