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Online Recycling Enables Credit Crunch Sunshine Breaks
LONDON, December 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers are refusing to let the current economic climate deny them a
sunny winter break and are being more creative about how they sustain the
demands of pre-Christmas spending.
It seems online second hand retail is enabling some consumers to ride out
the storm and not have to make too many sacrifices to their lifestyle in the
process.
London business development manager Jeremy Fielding (30) has just booked
his holiday break to Sardinia funded by selling his entire bookshelf and CD
collection on Play.com and offloading some of his daughter's old toys on
eBay.
I am so excited to manage to defy the credit crunch and still get my
yearly fix of November sunshine. I felt this year it was slightly extravagant
to be going away amidst all the doom and gloom reports, but am now managing
to take my family on a well-earned break and de-clutter my living room to
make way for the Christmas tree.
Growing consumer sentiment towards websites selling second-hand products
was confirmed by web monitoring firm Hitwise last month, which said searches
containing the words 'second hand' had increased by 22 per cent over the last
12 months
Graduate James Hicks (24) received around GBP200 after offloading some of
his student textbooks to fund his Christmas spending.
'It's such a liberating feeling selling old textbooks and getting some
pre-Christmas cash in the process' he said. 'The other great thing is that it
is helping someone get their degree books for a fraction of what they sell
for in the shops.'
Play.com's Luke Taylor commented 'People are realising that their
collections of DVDs and CDs are worth serious amounts of money, and now could
be a good time to turn them back into cash.'
Notes to editors:
PlayTrade is the new way to make money selling DVDs, CDs, books, concert
tickets and games and more to millions of customers who either shop at
Play.com or sell second hand goods online.
Whether a user has one or one million things to sell, listing them for
sale at Play.com couldn’t be simpler. Step-by-step guidelines ensure that the
users products appear on the site within a matter of minutes and the next
time a customer comes to buy that item, they are given the option to buy it
from the user. Once the product has been sent out, PlayTrade passes the
proceeds on to the user.
For further information or pictures contact:
Melissa Gilmour
Three's A Crowd plc
4 Bloomsbury Square
London
WC1A 2 RP
M: +44(0)20-7-242-6151
