{"id":2078,"date":"2011-08-14T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:18:45","slug":"tips-on-van-hire-for-ebay-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2078","title":{"rendered":"Tips On Van Hire For eBay Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n<\/a>You can’t (yet) arrange van hire<\/a> on eBay<\/a>\"\", but you may well need to hire a van if you have purchased one of the larger items for sale on eBay – a new sofa, garden furniture or a fridge-freezer, for example.<\/p>\n

If you are shopping on eBay for anything that won’t obviously be posted, it is always worth checking what shipping methods the seller is offering before<\/em> you make a bid. Some sellers will not ship at any price and will insist on collection only. Don’t be the kind of plonker who makes a winning bid and then realises that the item they have bought is Collection Only but they can’t collect it…<\/p>\n

If the item you have bought is not too far away, hiring a van might be cheaper than using a courier or delivery service. These usually charge a per-mile rate – find out what’s on offer and compare it to the cost of hiring a van for a day, plus the cost of the diesel you will use. Fuel consumption on modern vans is pretty decent – even large vans will manage 30mpg on a long run, although short journeys and driving through town can be much worse.<\/p>\n

Remember to check out the size of the item you need to collect and make sure the van you hire is big enough<\/a> – but not too big. There’s no point in wasting money on a van that’s needlessly large.<\/p>\n

All vans up to 3.5t (that’s almost all rental vans) can be driven on a regular car licence, although most hire companies have a minimum age requirement<\/a> for van hire that’s somewhere between 21 and 25 – check before booking if this is an issue for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bought something large on eBay? Renting a van may be the quickest and cheapest way to get it home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1073,18,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}