Marketplace Collection in Todmorden

Rochdale, Burnley or Halifax: fetching a Marketplace buy into OL14

The seller's town matters less than the seller's front door. A wardrobe in a Littleborough bungalow is a quick lift; the same wardrobe on the second floor of a Rochdale flat needs a trolley and more time, or the seller's help. Ask which floor it is on, whether there is a lift and where a van can pull in, then pass that on. The item is checked against the listing photos on collection, and you get a call before loading if it does not match.

At the Todmorden end the question is steps. On a top-and-bottom terrace the door may be a flight of stone steps above or below where the van stops, and an oak dresser carried down them takes longer than a small pine chest. Say which street your door is on. If you are the one selling to a buyer in Leeds or Manchester, the pick-up happens at your house and the van drives it straight to theirs.

Before you pay the seller: checks for a Todmorden pick-up

• Ask for the item's height, width and depth and compare them with your door and stair
• Find out the seller's floor, lift and parking, and share their phone number
• Agree a pick-up window with a Burnley or Rochdale seller that leaves some slack, as the way back into Todmorden is a single valley road
• If the item was taken apart, ask for the screws and feet to be bagged and taped to it
• A range cooker or safe is checked from photos before the day; an upright piano is moved with notice
• Tell us if your Todmorden door is up or down steps from the road

Both sides of the Pennines: where Todmorden buys get collected

• Rochdale and Littleboroughover Rochdale Road via Walsden; Rochdale is the nearest large town to the south
• Burnley and Cornholmewest along Burnley Road into Lancashire
• Hebden Bridge and Halifaxon the valley road, so easy to pick up on the way in from the Bradford side
• Walsden and Lydgateedge-of-town villages where a local seller is only minutes away
• Top-and-bottom terraces in townthe drop end, carried by hand up or down stone steps

OL14 Marketplace runs from Rochdale, Burnley and down the Calder

• Rochdale → Todmordenthrough Littleborough and Walsden, the direct way in from the Manchester side
• Halifax or Hebden Bridge → Todmordena valley seller's piece brought up the A646
• Burnley → Todmordenin along Burnley Road via Cornholme

What changes the price of a Todmorden Marketplace fetch

The distance from the seller to the drop, how big and heavy the piece is and the stairs or steps at each end set the price. It is fixed from the listing photos before the van goes. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Marketplace Collection in Todmorden: your questions