Sell Your Used Monitor — 0% Fees

A used monitor typically sells for £40 to £220, and on WishThrift it costs you nothing to list — no fee, no commission, so you keep the whole amount you agree. Monitors sell on size, resolution and panel condition, and the only way to prove the panel is clean is to photograph it displaying solid colours.

The short version

Typical range: £40 – £220 — see the full monitor value guide
What decides your price: condition, and how well you evidence it in photographs
Cost to sell here: nothing, at any price
Category: Electronics

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.

Display full-screen white, black, red, green and blue and check for dead or stuck pixels.
Note the size, resolution, refresh rate and panel type from the menu or the rear label.
Find the stand, its screws and the correct cable, and check whether it is VESA compatible.

The photographs that sell a monitor

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 monitor on, displaying a normal image, straight on
Full-screen white and full-screen black, evidencing the panel
The rear label with model number
The stand, cables and any bezel or screen mark

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 It feels counterproductive, but a listing that shows the worst of an item gets fewer questions, fewer withdrawn offers and fewer arguments at handover.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

Size, resolution and panel: “24in 1080p IPS Monitor, 75Hz, HDMI and DisplayPort”. Size and resolution are the primary filters. Say which inputs it has, since a buyer with a specific machine needs the right port.

Then state these in the description, because a buyer who has to ask is a buyer who might not bother:

Screen size, resolution, refresh rate and panel type
Available inputs: HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA, USB-C
Whether the stand and correct cable are included, and VESA compatibility
Dead pixel count and any backlight bleed

What buyers will actually ask

You will receive the same three messages about a monitor. 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.

“Are there dead pixels?”

Cycle solid colours and photograph. Offering that evidence unprompted separates your listing from most others.

“What inputs does it have?”

List them. A buyer with a USB-C laptop or an older machine needs to know the ports before travelling.

“Is the stand included?”

Confirm the stand and its screws. Replacements are model-specific and awkward to source.

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 monitor 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 £130 sale — roughly the middle of the range for a monitor — 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	£130
Poshmark	−£26	£104
eBay	−£18	£112
Mercari	−£13	£117
Etsy	−£8	£122

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

Steady with lifts in September and before Christmas. Larger and higher-resolution panels sell fastest.

Fragile without the original box. Collection with the monitor powered on is the safer route for both sides.

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

What is a used monitor worth?

Typically £40 to £220 depending on size, resolution and panel type. See the monitor value guide.

How do I test for dead pixels?

Display full-screen solid colours — white, black, red, green and blue — and look closely at each. A dead pixel stays black on all of them; a stuck one stays a single colour.

Can I post a monitor?

Only well packed, ideally in the original box. Panels crack easily and courier claims on screens rarely succeed, so collection is usually better.