Selling your Pushchair on Ebay could be a rip off!

Selling your pushchair through Ebay? Does anyone take note of the exorbitant fees until they get paid?

Until now ebay has been the trading destination of choice as parents buy and sell, searching for their ultimate wheeled nirvana. But did you know that a sale of £200 on Ebay, taking payment by Pay Pal, will cost you at least £28.12 in fees?

There are other options. Car boot sales are very popular, with pitches generally costing from £5.00, but you have to get rid of the kids, get up at 5am and sell for way under market value. There's always the local paper, however you jostle for space amongst builders, plumbers and the hundreds of ever popular chat lines. Last resort could be the card on the board in the supermarket, but does anyone actually read these?

There is another option: PushchairTrader.co.uk is a brand new site dedicated to all things pushchair. You can sell your pushchairs for free and search through hundreds of listings of new and used pushchairs before making your next purchase.

Pushchair Trader is packed with news, reviews, features and road tests from brands and retailers right across the UK ensuring that your pushchair knowledge is second to none. All that and regular competitions to win the latest new models to hit the streets.  PushchairTrader.co.uk is the essential one stop shop to fuel your pushchair addiction.

www.pushchairtrader.co.uk

Notes on fees for Editors.

Ebay

For more information about pricing: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html

Fee examples for this case.

Placement listing Fee = £0.12

Reserve Fee for a £50.00 reserve = £1.00

Fee if pushchair sells for £200.00 =  £20.00

Pay Pal

For more information about pricing: https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees-outside&countries=

Fee example in this case.

Fee for £0 - £1500 = 3.4% plus 0.20 pence. Sold for £200 fee = £7.00

Feed your pushchair habit with PushchairTrader.co.uk

Pre children it’s handbags and shoes that fuel our shopping addictions – post children it’s pushchairs.

Until now ebay has been the trading destination of choice as parents buy and sell searching for their ultimate wheeled nirvana. But did you know that an ebay sale of £200 costs you around £30 in fees?

PushchairTrader.co.uk is a brand new site dedicated to all things pushchair. You can sell your pushchairs for free and search through hundreds of listings of new and used pushchairs before making your next purchase. Their online magazine is packed with news, reviews, features and road tests from brands and retailers right across the UK ensuring that your pushchair knowledge is second to none. All that and regular competitions to win the latest new models to hit the streets make PushchairTrader.co.uk the essential one stop shop to fuel your pushchair addiction.

www.pushchairtrader.co.uk

My Carry Potty choose as us!

My Carry Potty chooses as Clear as PR

The essential new My Carry Potty has appointed parenting and social media specialists as Clear as PR to undertake a targeted consumer PR campaign that will bring increased awareness of toilet training and brand awareness of My Carry Potty.

Amanda Jenner, the award-winning designer of My Carry Potty said: “We are really pleased to be working with as Clear as PR. As a mum Sian has experienced the same trials and issues as every other family does when potty training and we feel that her expertise and excellent results will take us to the next level. I’m a true believer in trust and honesty and from the moment I met Sian I knew that she was the way forward. We are really looking forward to working with her.”

Over the last ten years as Clear as PR has established itself as being the UK’s leading parenting specialist agency and as early adopters to the dynamic world of social media their ability to influence and engage directly with your key target consumer is at an all time high.

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TotBots on STV

Fiona from TotsBots on STV last week.
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Speaking at the Emma's Diary Birthday presentation

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Gentlefeed bottles from Mebby – the safer way to feed your baby

Gentlefeed bottles from Mebby – the safer way to feed your baby

The chemical content of baby bottles has been a hot topic in the USA for some time and in April

 The chemical content of baby bottles has been a hot topic in the USA for some time two years ago San Francisco became the first state to ban the sale of baby feeding bottles that contain the chemical Bisphenol-A. Since then the debate has escalated as the US media uncovered the story that the baby bottle manufacturers have tried to keep hidden.

Because of their body weight, children are far more susceptible to adverse affects from chemical exposures than adults, even at very low doses, with children under the age of three being the most vulnerable.

Bisphenol-A, also known as BPA, is used in the making of polycarbonate bottles, plastic food and drink packaging and is known to cause neurological and hormonal damage to animals.

Lab tests have shown that when baby bottles are heated, as many parents do to warm formula or breast milk, potentially dangerous levels of BPA leach into the liquid. While industry leaders continue to defend the use of BPA, it has been linked by scientists to cancers, impaired immune function, early onset of puberty, obesity, diabetes, hyperactivity and possibly autism.

Environmentalists are calling for clearer labeling by manufacturers whose baby products contain BPA, so that parents can make an informed decision before purchasing equipment that could pose a potential long term danger to their child.

Earlier this month the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) stood up to be counted and called for companies to stop using Bisphenol A (BPA) in the manufacturing of their baby bottles.

Despite the bans in San Francisco and Canada BPA is still present in many of the baby bottles sold in the UK. This is made worse by unclear labeling and many parents are buying products containing this potentially dangerous chemical without even realising it.

Mebby produce a BPA free range of Gentlefeed baby bottles made from chemical free Polyether Sulfone (PES), an innovative medical grade plastic that is honey coloured, hygienic and unbreakable. Mebby bottles are available in three sizes 150ml, 250ml and 280ml and feature an anti-colic silicone teat.

For further information on the Gentlefeed or any other product in the extensive Mebby nursery range please contact Sian at as Clear as PR on 07894 575070 or email sian@asclearas.com

April 2010.