Anyone got any advice for an easy way to sell a stove that we just got as part of our new house purchase?

It's a brand-new range fitted by the person who upgraded the house before we bought, but it's a white electric coil type and we are upgrading to a gas range.

I've checked through all the classified sites like Kijii and Craigslist and there are certainly second-hand ranges for sale, but I've never used those sites and no idea on success rate. Plus the ranges available on there are generally quite a bit older and therefore not listed for the same sort of money I think we could get so i don't even know if it's the right market to put our listing in.

What I was trying to find is a company that buys second-hand ranges to take the hassle out of listing it for months while it sits in our garage.

You are likely to get more through the classified ads in the paper than through a dealer. At a guess, 2/3 of new price selling it yourself and half to a dealer.

I'm ok with half since it's all "bonus" in a way. I'm not even sure of the actual value of it as it's a Moffat appliance which I've found on their site for sale, but have never seen in a store!

More going for ease and pain free transaction. Haven't been able to find a company anywhere that mentions they buy second-hand appliances, just ones that take them off your hands.

Personally I'd put an ad in the papers classified section. If the product & price is right could go in a snap. Worth a try for a week or two, otherwise look for a consignment store, or ask the store where you are getting your new on if they would sell it for you and offer them a commission (or maybe they'll do it for free). If it is a local firm they might do it, the box stores won't though.

Round here Id use www.buysell.com but dunno if thats big out west

Yes, it's popular here too.
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We had a stove to sell - nothing wrong with it, other than we felt one plate (the super duper one) didn't get up to heat as we'd like but sometimes it would.

It became a bit inconvenient when something wasn't cooked when other stuff was.

We didn't expect much - getting $50 was better than paying $50 to have it taken away.

I advertised on kijiji and the only response turned out to be a used appliance dealer. He said he could probably fix it for about $120 and sell it for $400 so it wasn't worth it.

That surprised me as he was already here, with a truck. It would have cost him $170 ($120 + $50) and he would get $400 and it wasn't worth it???

I would have taken less, but he wasn't interested.

Luckily, one of the replacement cookers we'd been looking at was suddenly reduced by $150 so we bought it and they took they old one away for $50 so we saved $100.

The paper certainly seems a better bet, but it does look as if dealers scour kijiji anyway.

Have you tried ebay? We put some furniture on there for EUR 10 and got 60 for it.

We just didn't want to have to take it to the tip!