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Is there much of a market for used electric panel heaters?
Our house is not plumbed for gas, and originally had ceiling heating. It seems like it never really worked as our house had since been kitted out with electric storage heaters (as have most of our neighbors). Previous owner of our house was a little fancier and kitted ours out with ecolec wireless control heaters, whereas most others on our cul de sac just have ones with dials on the heaters.
However, I am thinking of swapping ours to the more simple ones our neighbors have because A) I don't really like where the radiators are currently placed and the sizes don't fit where I would like to place them (under the windows) and B) I don't understand the wireless controller. I also don't like that they have hard wired them into the mains, as I would have preferred the plugs so I could move them a bit easier, granted I am aware this is easy to reverse.
I've looked up the cost of buying the controller and radiators we have new and they come in at £1,389 before delivery, which is crazy money for 3 radiators (2 white panel heaters and a mirror panel heater) and a controller.
I was thinking of throwing them on eBay as a set for £500 in the hope a builder renovating a house on the cheap or something like that would snap them up, is that unrealistic? I don't really want to end up with unused radiators lingering around my house.