Cheapest used chainsaws on eBay, live right now.

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How to buy a used chainsaw

Pull the starter and feel for compression before anything else. A saw that spins freely with almost no resistance has a worn cylinder or a scored piston, and on most consumer models that costs more to fix than the saw is worth. Ask a seller to describe how hard it is to pull, or better, to send a video of it starting from cold.

A saw that has run straight petrol is scrap, and the exhaust tells you. Pull the muffler cover and look at the piston through the port: a clean grey crown is fine, scoring or aluminium transfer means it has been run lean or on unmixed fuel. This is the single fault that separates a bargain from a boat anchor, and it is invisible from the outside.

Check the bar and chain last, not first. They are consumables and a worn set is worth almost nothing either way, so a tired bar should not put you off a healthy saw and a shiny new one should not reassure you about a sick one. What the bar DOES tell you is how the saw was treated: a bar worn unevenly on one rail means it was run with a loose chain.

Professional models are the value on this page. A Stihl MS 362 or Husqvarna 372XP was built for daily commercial use, has a rebuildable engine and full parts availability years after production, and often sells used for less than a new homeowner saw of half the capability. The trade-off is weight and that it may already have thousands of hours on it.

Beware of listings that are actually parts. Chainsaw parts are listed by the saws they fit, so a search for a model number returns carburettors, cylinders and oil pumps alongside the saws. This page filters those out, but if you search eBay directly, read the title carefully: "fits MS 261" is not an MS 261.

Value. Stihl and Husqvarna hold their money unusually well because the professional models stay in demand and parts stay available. Budget brands from big-box stores fall much further, which makes them the cheaper buy secondhand but rarely the better one.

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Cheapest by model, at a glance

A daily snapshot of the lowest genuine eBay price for every model we track, and how good that price is right now versus its usual level, updated automatically. Prices last refreshed 12 October 2026. Tap a price to see that model's cheapest listings on eBay, or tap a model name for the full live list here.

These are second hand prices, listed by sellers as used or pre-owned, taken from live eBay US listings in US dollars. In collectible categories a sealed or unworn item is sometimes the cheapest genuine listing, and it is included. The same number works both ways: it is what a buyer pays today and the resale value a seller can realistically ask. Every model also carries a price history, the daily record kept since tracking began, which is the part to read before you buy or resell. On a day when a model has no listing that passes these filters, its row keeps the last price we recorded rather than inventing one, and drops off this table if that goes on for more than a few days.

Under each model is the actual listing that price came from, so you can see whether it is the thing you want or a bundle, a variant, or an accessory that happens to share the name.

Over the period we have tracked, this category is down 0.7%, while the used market as a whole is down 0.3%. See the Used Price Index, which is built from these prices and published as a free CSV.

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