Loading windows, after-work sellers and the bollards on the new estates

The semi-pedestrianised stretch of Commercial Street is open to loading early and late and closed to everything but buses in between. Since most people selling on Marketplace can only meet you once they are home from work, an evening collection often lands neatly in that afternoon window. We work until eight, seven days, so if your seller says half six we can usually make that the plan rather than the obstacle.

The delivery end is where this town surprises people. The new-build estates at Oulton and Woodlesford look easy on a map and are not: block-paved closes, small turning heads, driveway-only parking and bollarded footpath links a long wheelbase van has no way through. Meanwhile the older red-brick terraces off Marsh Street and Butcher Lane have no rear access and permanent kerbside parking. Either way, the useful number is the distance from where the van stops to your front door.

What Rothwell marketplace & ebay collection usually involves

Commercial Street loading is before 10am and after 4pm, so town-centre pickups get booked into one of those windows rather than the middle of the day
Bollarded footpath links on the Oulton and Woodlesford estates look like shortcuts on a map and are not passable in a van, so tell us the actual road access
The free Marsh Street car park is the main central option and fills up, so we would rather agree a spot than circle
Junction 7 of the M621 and the M1 approaches back up with Stourton freight at peak, so we time the Bradford and Leeds legs around it
Pay the seller in advance, or send the agreed cash with us to hand over on the doorstep. We collect on your behalf and check the item against the listing before loading

Where in Rothwell we work

Commercial Streetthe loading window rules the timing of any town-centre collection
Marsh Street and Butcher Lanenarrow Victorian terraces with permanent kerbside parking and no rear access
Oulton and Woodlesfordnew-build closes with tight turning heads, so the van stops on the through road
John O'Gaunts and Carltonpost-war semis and estate housing where there is usually a drive to back onto
Woodlesford stationa landmark handover point when a seller is vague about where the close actually is
Stourton Point and Leeds Valley Parkbusiness listings of office furniture and shelving, collected from a loading bay

If your street isn't listed it's almost certainly still covered, Rothwell and the surrounding LS26 postcodes are all inside our normal working area.

Common Rothwell runs

Rothwell to BradfordM621 to the M62 westbound and the M606, about fifteen miles and half an hour off-peak
Leeds to Rothwelldown the A61 Wakefield Road, the shortest and commonest collection run into the town
Rothwell to Morley or Wakefielda quick motorway-side hop when the bargain is one town over

What it costs

The price is set by the total run and the time the loading window and the carry take, not by a per-mile rate. There's no travel surcharge for coming to Rothwell from Bradford, and you get the price before we set off, not after. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Frequently asked questions: marketplace & ebay collection in Rothwell

The seller can only meet me at seven in the evening. Is that possible?

Yes. We run until eight every day and evening collections are our normal answer when a seller works full time. It also suits Commercial Street, which reopens to loading after four, so a late pickup in the centre is easier than a lunchtime one.

I live on a new estate at Oulton with a narrow close. Can the van get in?

Usually to the end of the close at least. What we cannot do is use the bollarded footpath links between streets, and some turning heads are too small to swing a long wheelbase van round. Send the address and we will look at the access before the day and plan the carry.

Can you collect something from Bradford and bring it here?

Yes, and it is a run we do often. It is roughly fifteen miles on the M62 and M621, and there is no travel surcharge for it. Send both postcodes and the seller's availability and we will quote the whole job as one fixed price.