Used camping gear in Melbourne typically sells for A$38 to A$285 (about $27 to $200). Camping gear sells best as a coherent bundle for one type of trip, so group by use rather than throwing everything unrelated into one lot.
Selling camping gear in Melbourne
Melbourne has the strongest vintage and op-shop culture in Australia and a large student population across several universities, so buying second hand here is entirely ordinary. It is also the country’s music city, which keeps instruments, amps and records moving in a way they do not everywhere.
Students arrive in February and leave in November, which inverts the northern-hemisphere rhythm. The inner suburbs also carry a lot of share-house accommodation, and share houses reshuffle constantly rather than seasonally.
The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Melbourne, in Victoria, has around 5.1 million people, which means a buyer pool big enough that almost anything finds someone, and close enough together that collection is rarely the obstacle. Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Melbourne
Australia Post covers everywhere, but distance pricing is real and interstate parcels cost meaningfully more than local ones.
What camping gear is worth
What lifts the price
- Everything clean, dry and free of mildew
- Original stuff sacks and pegs
What pulls it down
- Missing pegs, poles and guylines
- Perished elastic in poles and shock cord
Working out what yours is worth
- Lay everything out and photograph the full bundle
- List each piece individually in the description
Getting it ready
- Sort into a coherent set: what someone would actually take on one trip.
- Air everything and make sure nothing was packed damp, since mould is the usual problem with stored gear.
Photograph
- Any brand labels grouped together
- Any tear, mould mark, missing part or perished seal
Put in the description
- Condition of each, and whether everything has been tested
- Whether anything was stored damp, and any mould or perishing
Contents and use: “2 Person Camping Bundle — Stove, Sleeping Bags, Mats, Lantern”. List the actual items in the title, because that is what buyers search. Saying who it suits — festival, family, wild camping — helps the right buyer find it.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Victoria)
Common questions
Where can I sell camping gear in Melbourne?
List it free here and arrange the handover with the buyer yourself. The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
What exactly is included?
List every item. Bundles described vaguely attract lowball offers because buyers assume the worst.
How much is camping gear worth in Melbourne?
Most used camping gear change hands for A$38 to A$285 (about $27 to $200). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling camping gear across Australia, what camping gear is worth, everything second hand in Melbourne, or Sports & Outdoors in Melbourne.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.