A quarter of French received gifts that they do not like. According to a survey, resale on specialized sites, such as eBay, can generate market of about 133 million euros.
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Garbage full of wrapping paper, ribbons and other packaging just descended, thousands of French will arise only real question worth asking at Christmas: the gifts I have received me they really like?
On an average budget dedicated to the end of year holidays from 518 euros in France, more than half is, according to the annual survey by Deloitte, gifts, or 303 euros. But the firm points out that among the most desired gifts if the book comes first (41%), immediately following the money (38%) and gift certificates (31%). Now if offered for gifts, dominates the book well, chocolates, perfumes and CDs are far ahead of money (in 7 th position) and gift certificates (10 th ).
Obviously, the thirst for cash, understandable in a crisis, is not completely quenched by Father Christmas. Hence the growing interest for resale, a practice a little ashamed, but made easy by the proliferation of specialized e-commerce sites in FSBO transactions. At the forefront of them, and the American Leboncoin.fr eBay.fr.
A resale, which, unlike the traditional trade store, retrieve the money and then to offer a new gift in a completely different world from that of the gift received. In short, to exchange the complete works of Victor Hugo in the Pleiades against the latest Nintendo DS.
Discount of 15 to 20%
According to a study by TNS Sofres for eBay, more than French four (27%) received at least one adverse gift in 2013 and 5% of them were between 3 and 5 unwanted gifts, a figure that rises to 11% in the 16-24 age bracket. In all, the total amount spent on gifts that did not like was 584 million euros! Of this, the various marketplaces hope to conquer the equivalent of 133 million, according to the survey. Insofar, Christmas charity obliges, 7% of French who received an unwanted gift prefer to give it to someone else rather than sell it. It is the eternal history of neo-Art Deco vase offered by tata Monique will make excellent Christmas bonus for the building superintendent and can be admired throughout the year on the buffet of the lodge …
According to eBay, the amount of € 133 million corresponds to the assumption that this year, 27% of French would receive at least one adverse gift and the average value Estimated these gifts in 2013 (57.27 euros). For the US site, apparel and accessories, books, comics, games, toys and figurines are the easiest to sell. Provided, however they are both new and the seller offers a discount of at least 15 to 20% A discount will be even stronger than the stores themselves this year have increased, due to softness in consumption, discounts and promotions (see cons).
Sign of the times, if for half of French who choose to sell their unwanted gifts, the recipe for resale will be reinvested, it will not necessarily be present in other . The money raised will also be used to pay the bills Christmas: Gifts that itself was offered or Eve dishes.
Philippe Bertrand, Les Echos
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