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Thrifty eBay sellers have come up with an innovative way to make extra cash - by selling used toilet roll tubes.



There are almost 300 listings on the auction site for people selling the cardboard centres, with suggested uses including arts, crafts and gardening.



One cheeky retailer, lizz2412, is selling just 16 of the tubes for a whopping £10 - more than DOUBLE the price of full toilet rolls.



Another seller hoping to make a quick buck is aks302, who is flogging 130 toilet roll tubes and 18 kitchen roll centres for £30.

Money-saving blogger SkintDad has listed his top tips for selling the tubes, and said 'one man's rubbish is another man's treasure'.

(Image: SkintDad)

The top tips





He said: "Sell them in sets of 25, 50 or 100, rather than individually and take some good photos in natural day light.



"Spend a bit of time getting the listing right and you can just copy and paste it every time you want to sell some more.



"Offer free postage on the item as it looks more appealing as a buyer - build in a postage cost to a buy in now price.



"They are going to be very light so they won't cost a huge amount to send anyway.





"Head to a supermarket and see if you can get boxes to use when shipping your goods - the last thing you want to be doing to fork out loads on an expensive box as it's eat into any profit.



"Ask friends, family and work colleagues if they'll donate their used cardboard tubes.



"You should tell them the truth of why you want them 0 it's a bit devious making money from your friends if they could do with the cash too - but they may be happy to help with your business endeavours."