How to Sell Kitchen Appliances

Used kitchen appliances sell for roughly £8 to £350 on WishThrift, and listing it costs nothing — no fee, no commission, no buyer-side charge. Kitchen appliances are usually distress purchases: something has broken and the buyer needs a replacement this week. That works in your favour if you can prove yours runs. A short video or a photograph mid-cycle does more for an appliance listing than any amount of description.

The short version

Guides in this section: 25
Range covered: £8 – £350
Every guide covers: prep, the photographs that sell it, the title, buyer questions and the fee maths
Cost to sell here: nothing, at any price

How to sell kitchen appliances, item by item

What you keep on a typical sale

On a £105 sale — around the middle for this category — a 20% commission would take £21 and a 10% one £10. On WishThrift you keep the whole £105, and the buyer pays no surcharge either. The full fee comparison sets out what each marketplace actually charges.

When kitchen appliances actually sell

Appliances sell all year because they are replacement purchases rather than planned ones, which makes this one of the few categories with no dead season. Small appliances lift in autumn and again in January; large white goods move steadily whenever someone’s existing machine fails.

Before you list anything

Two things decide most of the price in every category, and both are settled before you write the listing. The first is the condition grade: WishThrift uses five — New with Tags, Like New, Good, Fair and For Parts — and what each one means is worth reading, because grading optimistically does not raise the price, it just produces a buyer who arrives expecting something else. The second is the price itself: the kitchen & appliances value guides price each item across all five grades.

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Frequently asked questions

Do used appliances actually sell?

Quickly, because they are usually replacing something that has just failed. A working appliance with a demonstration offered at collection often sells within days.

Should I sell a faulty appliance?

You can, listed honestly as Fair or For Parts with the symptom described. There is a real market among repairers and landlords. What does not work is selling a faulty machine as working.

How do I prove an appliance works?

Run it and photograph it mid-cycle with the display lit, and offer a demonstration at collection. That single photograph does more than a paragraph of reassurance.

See also: all selling guides · what kitchen appliances sell for · browse live kitchen & appliances listings.