Selling Broken & Damaged Baby & Nursery

17 guides to selling baby & nursery that are broken, damaged or incomplete. Every one covers what it is worth at Fair and For Parts, how to grade and photograph the defect, and what buyers ask before committing.

This is the category where the honest answer is most often no. Car seats, carriers, cots, high chairs and walkers all have a protective function that damage defeats invisibly, and each has its own page here saying so plainly. What does sell is the rest of it: prams and strollers are repaired routinely and parts are widely available, monitors and sterilisers are ordinary electronics, and nursery furniture is furniture.

8 of these say do not sell it. Where damage defeats something that exists to stop a person being injured, the guide says so and explains what to do instead. Those pages are in the list below like any other.

Before you write it off

Start by finding the manufacture date and the model number, which are moulded into the plastic or printed on a label under the seat. For most of this category that date decides whether the item should be sold at all, and for the rest it is the first thing a buyer asks. Then check the recall lists — they are free to search and take two minutes.

What a defect actually costs you

WishThrift grades run New with Tags, Like New, Good, Fair and For Parts. Fair is roughly 45% of the working price and covers heavy use or a described fault; For Parts is roughly 25% and covers something not working or incomplete, sold as seen. Grades are seller-declared — nobody inspects them for you — so an honest grade plus a clear photograph of the defect is what actually closes the sale. All five grades explained.

Across the 17 guides below, For Parts prices run from about £1 at the low end to £100 at the top, against £3 to £400 for the same items in sound condition. Those are guide figures in sterling; WishThrift lists in your local currency and does not convert for you.

Every baby & nursery guide

Frequently asked questions

Why will you not let me sell a damaged car seat or cot?

Because the damage defeats the one thing the item exists to do, and it is usually invisible to a buyer. A car seat’s shell deforms once, a cot’s bar spacing exists to stop entrapment, and neither can be verified second-hand. We take no commission, so there is nothing in it for us either way.

What baby equipment can I sell if it is faulty?

Prams, strollers and travel systems are repaired routinely and parts are widely available. Monitors and sterilisers are ordinary electronics. Nursery furniture that is not a sleeping surface is ordinary furniture. All of those are fine to sell with the fault described.

Listing is free and there is no commission. Neither side pays a buyer-protection fee either — create a free account to list yours, or browse the full faulty and damaged index.