The short version
- Typical range: £60 – £500 — see the full home gym equipment value guide
- What decides your price: condition, and how well you evidence it in photographs
- Cost to sell here: nothing, at any price
- Category: Sports & Outdoors
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.
- Measure the assembled footprint and height, and establish honestly whether it comes apart and how far.
- Check every cable, pulley and weight pin, and test each station moves smoothly.
- List exactly what is included, since bundles are usually a mixture of items and buyers want the inventory.
The photographs that sell home gym equipment
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 full setup assembled, from a distance so the whole footprint is visible
- The weight stack and cables
- Each separate item in the bundle, laid out
- Any frayed cable, worn pad or rust
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 It feels counterproductive, but a listing that shows the worst of an item gets fewer questions, fewer withdrawn offers and fewer arguments at handover.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
What it is and the footprint: “Multi Gym with 80kg Weight Stack, 200cm x 120cm Footprint, Dismantles”. Footprint and dismantling are the two facts that decide whether a buyer can take it. List the individual items in a bundle rather than saying “home gym equipment”.
Then state these in the description, because a buyer who has to ask is a buyer who might not bother:
- Exactly what is included, item by item
- Assembled footprint and height in centimetres
- Whether it dismantles, and whether the tools and fittings are present
- Weight stack total, and the condition of cables, pulleys and pads
What buyers will actually ask
You will receive the same three messages about home gym equipment. 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.
Answer with how far it dismantles and whether you have the fittings. This decides whether the buyer needs a van, a friend, or both.
Inspect for fraying and photograph. A frayed cable is a safety issue and a replacement cost, and it must be disclosed.
List each item. Bundles described vaguely attract lowball offers because buyers assume the worst about what is missing.
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 home gym equipment 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 £280 sale — roughly the middle of the range for home gym equipment — 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 | £280 |
| Poshmark | −£56 | £224 |
| eBay | −£38 | £242 |
| Mercari | −£28 | £252 |
| Etsy | −£18 | £262 |
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
January is far and away the strongest month, with a secondary autumn lift. Large multi-gyms are genuinely hard to move outside that window.
Collection only, and access is the whole negotiation. State the floor, the stairs, whether it is already dismantled and whether you can help. Honesty here saves both of you a wasted afternoon.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is used home gym equipment worth?
Typically £60 to £500 depending on what is included and its condition. Multi-gyms with intact cables and full weight stacks sit at the top. See the home gym equipment value guide.
Why is home gym equipment so hard to sell?
Access, almost always. It is heavy, bulky and often upstairs, and buyers cannot tell whether they can move it. Stating the footprint, whether it dismantles and which floor it is on transforms the response.
When is the best time to sell gym equipment?
January. New year demand is real and prices are meaningfully higher than in summer, so holding equipment until January is usually worth doing.
See also: what a used home gym equipment is worth · browse live sports & outdoors listings · condition grades explained.