Marketplace & eBay Collection in Ilkley

Why the seller's driveway is the hard part here

The best of it comes out of the big gritstone villas on Wells Road and up the Middleton side, and those houses share two problems. Many sit behind a long gravel or setted drive with no room to turn, so a long wheelbase van has to reverse back out onto a road parked solid on both sides. And the item itself is frequently a floor or two up in a three-storey house with a cellar and no lift.

Ask the seller two things before you commit to buying. Where can a van actually stand, and how many flights does the item have to come down? A photo of the front door and the drive tells us more than a postcode ever does. In the conservation-area streets around Brook Street and Church Street the pavements are narrow and the kerb space is short-stay, so we book those collections for a quiet hour rather than a Saturday afternoon.

What Ilkley marketplace & ebay collection usually involves

• It is 15 miles over from Bradford on the A6038 and A65 through Guiseley and Menston, so an Ilkley collection and a Bradford delivery is one straightforward run
• The town has never been bypassed, so the A65 is Leeds Road and Skipton Road straight through the middle and there is nowhere to stand at peak times
• Town-centre pay-and-display runs seven days a week with a three-hour maximum stay, fine for a collection but it means we work to a slot rather than hang about
• The climbs onto the Middleton side, Curly Hill, Nesfield Road and Langbar Road, are steep and blind-bended with no turning space, so we plan the approach instead of trusting the satnav
• You can pay the seller in advance or send the agreed cash with us, and we hand it over on collection once the item has been checked against the listing

Where in Ilkley we work

• Ben Rhyddingdetached houses in generous plots, where the garden furniture and big dining sets come from
• Wells Road and Middletonthree-storey villas, long private drives, and the item usually a floor or two up
• Ashlandsstone through-terraces near the station with kerbside loading only
• Brook Street and The Grovethe conservation-area centre, narrow pavements and short-stay bays
• Burley in Wharfedale and Menstonon the A65 between us and Ilkley, so they fold into the same run
• Addinghamthe Skipton Road side of town, usually paired with a Silsden or Keighley drop

If your street isn't listed it's almost certainly still covered, Ilkley and the surrounding LS29 postcodes are all inside our normal working area.

Common Ilkley runs

• Ilkley to Bradford15 miles on the A6038 and A65, the run we make most
• Ilkley to Guiseley or Menstona short Wharfedale hop, usually a single item
• Silsden or Keighley to Ilkleyback down the A65 through Addingham rather than over the tops

What it costs

The price follows the whole run, where the seller is, where you are and how long the item takes to get out of the house, with no extra for coming over from Bradford. There's no travel surcharge for coming to Ilkley from Bradford, and you get the price before we set off, not after. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

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