Top 3 categories to sell secondhand items in the Philippines

Top three most popular categories to sell secondhand items in The Philippines are fashion, hobbies & toys, babies & kids, said a recent report by peer to peer selling platform Carousell.  Meanwhile, top three most popular secondhand category to browse are fashion, hobbies & toys, electronics.

All-time top three most-searched keywords for secondhand items are Zara, Uniqlo and iPhone.  In celebration of its 10th anniversary, leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia Carousell Group released the Carousell Recommerce Index (10th Anniversary Edition) revealing the sustainability impact its collective community has made by buying and selling secondhand items.

Over the past decade, Carousell Group says its users have extended the life cycle of millions of items, including: 76.8 million fashion items; 33.9 million electronics; 26.6 million hobby items and toys; 11.1 million home items and furniture; and 10.6 million babies and kids items. To further illustrate the impact, the number of used fashion listings can provide 70% of the population in the Philippines with an outfit.

Additionally, assuming all used electronics listed are iPhone Xs, the height when stacked together is the equivalent of over 1600 times the height of Mount Pulag.

The report covers data from nine of Carousell Group's family of brands across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets — Carousell, Cho Tot, Laku6, Mudah.my, OneKyat, One Shift, Ox Luxe, Ox Street, and Refash.

Djon Nacario, general manager, Carousell Philippines, said, “As Philippines slowly recovers from the financial impact of the Covid pandemic, we see more and more consumers considering and buying secondhand as their first choice.”

He added, “The Carousell Recommerce Index serves as a crucial guide to help us better understand the fast-changing consumer behaviors in the post-Covid era, and how we can explore developing additional features to help improve the marketplace experience, and provide even more frictionless ways to drive recommerce growth.”