Free Newspaper Classifieds Ads: Sell Unwanted Stuff

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I’ve earnt over $550 selling unwanted household goods (mountain bike, old childrens games etc) using free newspaper classifieds ads :-) So if you’re clearing out extra things from your house don’t sell them for $5 at a garage sale when you can sell them for real money through free newspaper classifieds ads as well.

Whether you’re looking to sell golf clubs, a desk or a desktop selling your unwanted goods through News Limiteds free* Weekend Shopper website lets you reach far more potential buyers than a garage sale:

  • Reader Kevinpenrith (comment #8) has noticed that The Telegraph newspaper in NSW doesn’t have this offer any more :-( In NSW - The Daily Telegraph & The Sunday Telegraph has 1 million readers every day
  • In QLD - The Courier-Mail reaches nearly 750,000 readers every week
  • In SA - the Adelaide Advertiser is the States largest newspaper

* = Items must be valued $500 or under and the pricing must be included. The word ‘from’ cannot be aligned to a price in free ads. You can place up to 5 basic format ads with up to five lines for FREE. Offer available to Private Advertisers Only. Free ads available only for classifications listed in approved Wanted To Sell categories. Ad must be minimum 2 lines. Additional lines above 5 lines charged at $3.10 per line.

So earn some extra money out of unwanted things in your house by selling them in Weekend Shopper and make sure you come back here and make a comment here telling us how much you sold your stuff for.

Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Last Updated: Jun 13, 2008
Category : General
Written by: Neerav Bhatt

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8 Comments about “Free Newspaper Classifieds Ads: Sell Unwanted Stuff”

  1. Comment by cameron (1 comments.) on September 3rd, 2007:

    much better option than yard sales! have you tried craigslist.org as well? thats free too.

    EDITOR: Craigslist never really took off in Australia

  2. Comment by Louiss (1 comments.) on September 4th, 2007:

    Most of the people sell the unwanted things around $5 because the unwanted stuff really irritated them. They prefer not to put on the classified ads and wait for people to buy it as it may spend some time to clear you unwanted stuff.
    I personally do prefer sell to garage sales as I cant throw my unwanted things instantly.

  3. Comment by Rusty on September 6th, 2007:

    I checked craigslist.com and they do have a section refering to parts of Australia. I wonder why it never ended up taking off. Maybe americans are just more obsessed with buying and selling things than the rest of the world.

    The cool thing about a real classified ad, as opposed to an online ad, is that people actually have to pick up a phone and call you to reach you. With craigslist, everyone emails you constantly, but nobody buys anything. So you end up wasting a lot of time just talking to people who are merely browsing

  4. Comment by Dave RH (1 comments.) on September 11th, 2007:

    Great advice!

    If you live in a developed part of the world, there are most likely papers that offer this free listing service as well. Also, many cities have local free classified directories and as you guys mentioned already, there is always craigslist! :)

  5. Comment by Tom on September 18th, 2007:

    Those are some pretty good websites and craiglist is as good as well if you have big ticket items that you only want people to pick up in your area.

  6. Comment by Gio (1 comments.) on November 11th, 2007:

    From my experience traveling oversees, I’ve noticed that craigslist is only effective in the United States, particularly the San Francisco metropolitan area, Los Angeles and New York. They weren’t able to launch successfully in most countries, including AU. They do offer a great service but were unable to grab enough international attention. One thing I don’t like about craigslist is the mass spamming from India and some Eastern European countries.

  7. Comment by Dennis Alexander (1 comments.) on January 22nd, 2008:

    Craigslist has been great source for selling anything and everything. The best this is that it is free. Bayare is where Craigs list started and it seem that is where most traffic is coming from. I am glad that it has not been commercialized.

  8. Comment by KevInPenrith on May 16th, 2008:

    Only available for SA & Qld - Not NSW… You mentioned the Telegraph - not so (anymore?)

    EDITOR: looks like you’re right KevInPenrith. I checked and its not available for NSW anymore


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