Demolition, salvaging home

I sold everything I thought was worth something on eBay. I started the bidding very low, normally $1. I’m not convinced this was the best place to sell though. Everyone seems to want an absolute bargain on that site. One guy who bought my awning wasn’t happy with the $160 he was paying. It was a $700 awning 18 months earlier so I thought it was a bargain. The fees for selling are quite high when you sell more expensive items like a kitchen for $1000. I found it very time consuming to take photos, write descriptions and meet people at the property to uninstall and pick up items. I’d still do it again though as I got about $3500 and I’d prefer to have the money rather than give it to the demolition people. The demolition company wasn’t going to give me any discount on the price for the items. The items were all fairly new ranging from 18 months to 4 years old so really you get nowhere near what they’re worth new. I still have a few items to sell that we took but haven’t had the motivation to do it

I found some items were a bit hit and miss such as security doors and doors in general. My slideout rangehood only sold for $10, pretty disappointing. There was a lot of demand for my oven, built-in robe, kitchen and split system air-conditioner. Had some interest in the wood and roof tiles of the property but we didn’t really bother with it. We were too busy organising ourselves to move out of the property. We just let someone take some roof tiles off the property for free.

If you have period items you might do well but 'run of the mill' items go for low amounts
I often browse ebay but not looking for 'modern' items
Most that are demolishing warn that items must be picked up by a certain time or bad luck also bring your own tools if the items are still on the house - all of those things will reduce your chances

thanks for the responses, I have tried a house relocation company, as they clear and level the block after they remove the house, and it wouldn't cost me anything because someone would buy the house and it becomes their cost. I do recommend this as a very valid option to any house on stumps.

But because the house is small and split level they think it is less likely that anyone would like it, so off to ebay what I can and the rest can go to the demolisher.

In the end I didn't ebay anything.

I used a demolition team that recycle what they could, they also recycled our palm trees, apparently they were worth something.

Windows, kitchen, doors and some bricks, floor boards, stove went to their salvage yard for sale.

remainder bricks and roof tiles were to be crushed for future use as road base.

I sold the oven to a local primary school to use in the canteen (I did sell it cheap, I was just happy the school could use it and didn't want to be paid).

The dishwasher went to a house up the road.

The demolishers take into consideration what they can sell and that is factored into their quote. I actually found our demolishers reliable and would be happy to recommend them to anyone. - Impact Demolition and Asbestos Removals.

SunshineT - let us know what you end up doing.

I also found that at the end I just wanted the house gone, and the hardest part of that was electrical abolishment.

We demolished our house last year in Melbourne. We wanted to recycle as much as we could, interestingly enough the companies who were prepared to do lots of recycling were the most expensive. I ended up finding out what the demo guy would only send to the tip and I put it up on Freecycle. We had tried to sell the house to a removalist but we had access problems so that was a no go. The house was a 50's weatherboard with few redeeming features for sale but it was really great to see how it was able to be reused. By the time the demolition crew came for the big pull down we had removed all tapware, bathroom, windows, carpets, doors, carport, robes, curtains, awnings, front fence, pavers, retaining walls, weatherboards, ducted heatings, air conditioners, decking and even the kitchen sink...lol.