Your greatest EBAY buy or sell

[Simster]

At the beginning of last week, I made the decision to tear down a 40 year old corrigated iron garden shed which looked bloody awful. However, when I invited a CHUM over for a cheeky glass of wine one evening, he suggested I didn't spend all day dismantling it and taking it to the tip, and that instead I should stick it on ebay for 99p and see what happens.

So I did. A three day auction, won by a bid of £30! So the bloke and his wife turned up with tipper lorry, dismantled it himself with my help, and we loaded it onto his lorry. The whole process took about 90 minutes, I was a tidy 30 notes better off and had got rid of the eye sore at the bottom of the garden.


Which ebay BUY or SELL are you most chuffed with?

 

[Jake Manthorpe]

I bought the 83 fa cup program for 2.99

 

[SeagullTim]

My mate bought this briefcase of 1000 poker chips for 30 odd quid, whilst there about £50 for 500 of the same quality in the shops.

He was well chuffed.

 

[aftershavedave]

antique french poster cost 300 quid, worth about 1,500

 

[Mrs Coach]

I bought a load of hamster leads for 50p each and they sold for £6 each on average! Some people eh....

(I'm not joking either - they exist!)

 

[REDLAND]

I brought a knackered CRT Tv of a mate last year for a pound on eBay, paid him via paypal (snigger), then relisted the Tv with a bit of jazzing up and sold it for £25 .. he even had to wait in one Sunday while the bloke came round to pick it up

 

[Seagullible]

got a widescreen TV for £11 - was very happy with that

 

[Wozza]

So I did. A three day auction, won by a bid of £30! So the bloke and his wife turned up with tipper lorry, dismantled it himself with my help, and we loaded it onto his lorry. The whole process took about 90 minutes, I was a tidy 30 notes better off and had got rid of the eye sore at the bottom of the garden.

So you're basically worth £20/hr?

Bit pricey for light manual labour, but can you come and sort my garden this weekend please?

 

[Lush]

Sold a five year old Smeg fridge freezer for about £800. Only cost a grand new.

 

[house your seagull]

bought - dynamo minsk vs brighton and hove albion hand drawn program from 1989 for about £2.

sold - 2 radiohead tickets for £200, i happened to pass the hammersmith apollo when the ticket office opened, popped in bought some tickets with no intention of going.

 

[Jesus Gul]

bought - Precept EV 3-SW brand spanking with Golf Pride grips for 45 quid (they're my spare set - I'm a Ping player)
sold - the Observer Panini World Cup Sticker albums supplements that were printed in 1998 for about 30 quid. These were repros not the original albums.

 

[Napper]

brought a new car , escort van for £65 , Ran the thing for a year doing dump runs etc + general abuse before driving up a scrappy . Didn't look the best but probably paid for itself when I lent it to mates who would pay me for it via beer

 

[Badger]

A few years ago I bought a CD/MP3/Radio car stereo for £50 on ebay. A few weeks earlier I had bought a CD multi-changer for £30 which turned out to be the wrong one. I then sold the multi-changer again for £50 and also flogged my old stereo, which had a knackered CD player for £60. All in all not a bad bit of business, a nice new car stereo and £30 profit.

 

[scooter1]

Sold a shit load of scabby Mini spares, and with the proceeds paid for the contents of my avatar.

On a sourer note, bought a Yamaha snare drum, hardly used etc - by the time i'd won the auction and paid postage I could have walked into town, bought a brand new one and still had change for a pint on the way home.

Win some, lose some I guess

 

[Superphil]

Superwife bought a black cat ceramic jug for a couple of quid, we stuffed it in a cupboard for a few years, we put it on ebay and sold for over £300.

 

[Gazwag]

I sold my old comic collection, mainly Beano's/Dandy's/Look In's plus a couple of 1st edition comics all from the mid/late 70's which raised a grand and was used as spending money for our family trip to Florida.

I only sold them as my parents were sorting out their loft and wanted rid.

 

[dylan_bha]

When the Wii first came out, did my homework and found out who had stocks of them (fairly easy if you've got the time) anyway was flogging them on for between £300-£400 (cost £178). Was gonna go down the same route with the PS3 but glad I didn't as there wasn't anywhere near the same uptake.

Mobile phones are always another good one, get the very latest good quality phone on a contract, keep the box etc and look after it then when your contract ends (or even before) sell it on - recently got £80 for an N80 that I run for a year, forgot about for 6 months (after ending the contract) then sold. Before anyone says it I know that you usually have to take out a fairly pricey contract but you can usually find some good deals on the net then get a shop to price match, or start on a hefty contract then drop it down after 2 months....

 

[Robot Chicken]

I sold an old second hand pen for £590.

 

[challengechappers]

best buys: - perfect condition sony triniton flatscreen 28" with stand and built in freeview for £35. it's a great time to buy a crt tv! (lcd's are over rated imo, and by the time we get a free HD signal, 2012, they'll be out of date)
- £105 face value rolling stones tickets for the O2, £45 each.

best sale: - made £200 profit on two tom waits tickets -reluctant sale but hey, they paid for my glastonbury ticket (and coach) that year.

 

[tinx]

Recently ordered a "bag o Crap" from bigpockets.co.uk where they send you some random excess stock items. One of which was a mobile phone watch which I tohught noone would want. Stuck it on ebay for buy it now of £85 and it was sold in less than an hour.

In the past I bought two tickets to see Bruce SPringsteen a few years back for 50 quid a ticket and sold the pair on ebay for £400.