Online is OK for the big stuff as people will travel (I sold the air-con unit online to a guy from Seville), but it is also the small value stuff like books, jewellery, toys, etc that I want to get rid of and people aren't willing to travel for that.

It the typical car boot style odds and sods that I want to find a home for and I think locally I will have no chance of selling it. I've resigned myself to giving everything away....assuming I can find some Spaniards who are willing to lower themselves sufficiently to accept second hand goods! Donating to the churches is looking like the most realistic option at the moment.

Busters Mum - I'd be happy to give all my stuff to anyone willing to pick it up, but therein lies the problem. I think I live too far from anyone who would have a British market to flog it to.

I'd join a queue with Busters Mum! Too far, though, as you say...
Interesting question, though, Brits (or a large number of) are happy to buy second hand yet it's not widely done by the Spanish. Any theories why? Someone told me a while ago they'd rather buy cheap & cheerful new than good quality used - and to see the stuff at the basura bins I think he may have been right!

My doogies do have things to wee up don't want any more. Come visit, the only things they don't wee on, thankfully, are peeps but I'm sure i could teach them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont they have a weekly "rastro" near you? (Do a google search) If you go and look around, get chatting with a stall holder, you may find you can share a table the following week. Spanish love to rummage round old junk...but bargain hard!

Snottygrande is in Cadiz province, and the Spanish government believe Gibraltar should be.

I guess it depends on where you live.

We cleared out some stuff which we were going to bin. Decided to take it to the local charity auction instead, we got €151 after deducting our donation to charity.

Had a rake round our garage a few weeks later and earned another €35.

its tricky selling 2nd hand stuff in spain i agree.

Why not sell (the smaller items) on ebay.co.uk to the british (or whoever). Over the years we have made a tidy sum by selling car boot items on ebay, but oddly enough the only things Spaniards have ever bought from us on ebay is:

scalextric cars (!)
2nd hand car parts
Old video games


.....for some reason.

and you know its awful when you drive around the campo, really nice etc and you come to a layby or whatever and someone has dumped all their crap there. really ruins it.

We are planning to carry on selling on ebay (in our spare time), when we get to spain, but havent worked out the logistics yet but im sure we will.

Yes, there are markets. But I am not licenced, and I'm not sure how a licenced stall holder would feel about a random Joe (or Jane) asking to share their pitch. Presumably, if they were up for it, they'd want me to pay which sort of defeats the object.

Yes, there is definitely a different mentality towards second hand stuff here. I once tried to explain the phenomenom that is eBay to my other half. Of course he had never heard of it, and when I explained that you can buy second hand goods on it he just screwed his nose up and thought it sounded a bit disgusting.

ok! well heres a few examples of us selling "£car boot rubbish" and you can tell him this too!!!

bought a photo album of world war one for 55 quid, sold on ebay for 500!!!!!!
bought a plastic 1970's morris minor toy van for a pound, sold on ebay for 175!

bought 4 photo albums from a house clearance all about someone living in the middle east in the 1930's, for a tenner, sold each individually and totalled 900 quid!

bought a gold pen for a fiver, turns out to be old and rare, sold for 220 quid.

(and the list goes on and on). Nothing wrong with 2nd at all, as long as its quality.

It mighty be worth your while checking the Auction house in Campillos (Malaga province). They sell furniture, electrical items, books, jewellery etc etc. I know it's not on your doorstep, but it is an easy drive. There is also, while you're in the area, a bookshop in Mollina that will pay money (1.50-2€ per book)for your books (novels).

Online there could be an alternative called Freecycle, which operates worldwide, or sell the stuff on E Bay UK

Bit curious, the Spanish attitude towards secondhand, never really come across that before with other nationalities.

i wonder if there would be a way of a limey like me making money from that?

get some people to go round the basuras getting stuff and i could sell it all on ebay uk!!!!!!!!!

hmmmm, food for thought and not as impossible as it sounds.

I know a Moroc that does it, but at carboots. ;-))

hmmmmmmmm............maybe i should go into business with this enterprising chap!??