[Misc] Best bargains you've found

[Shropshire Seagull]

I think this proves you wrong.

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Where did you find that? In the trunk of your car, blowing around on the sidewalk or stuck in the elevator door [must have been somewhere in Yanksville]

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Surely houses don't belong on this thread, unless you bought one for a ridiculous price in the relevant era.

Buying a house in 1985 for the same price as everybody else bought their houses that year and selling it thirty years later for ten times the value doesn't make it a bargain does it? That's just how the housing market works, surely.

Maybe this one does ....

About 15 years ago I was dabbling in BTL and houses were going up ~15% a year. I made an offer of £64k on a 2-bed semi which was accepted - occupier was a female single parent with a son and daughter who were getting towards being too old to share a bedroom. I had the survey done and then 2 weeks later she pulled out as the house she had planned to buy fell through.

I went round to see what the situation was and said we were in no hurry [survey was valid for 6 months] - 5 months later she called to say she had found somewhere and that if I still wanted her 2-bed semi, it was mine for the same asking price. Went though the 6 week phase to completion by which time the value was estimated at £69 so I "flipped it" and in two months had made £5k [probably £4k after fees and searches] for not very much effort.

That, I believe, was a bargain?

 

[Triggaaar]

It is both actually, mathemetics is a collective noun like ecoustics
Math or maths is really an abbreviation either way if you are British it's generally referred as maths
Personally I always thought that
2+2 = math
2+3+3 = maths
would make more sense

2+2 is 4, minus 1 that's 3, quick maths

 

[Triggaaar]

A case of ‘45 Haut Brion and a case of ‘45 Mouton Rothschild at £100/case.

 

[Juan Albion]

I was in a secondhand shop in a convent a few years ago and found a mint condition very large $1 coin in sterling silver, clearly a collector's item. I asked the old nun behind the counter how much it was. She looked at it and said "Well it says $1 on it."

 

[Triggaaar]

Surely houses don't belong on this thread, unless you bought one for a ridiculous price in the relevant era.

Buying a house in 1985 for the same price as everybody else bought their houses that year and selling it thirty years later for ten times the value doesn't make it a bargain does it? That's just how the housing market works, surely.

Fair point, it's comparison that makes something a bargain or not. I had a girlfriend in my 20s, and I later found out that lots of other people had gone out with her, but they all paid £20, so I guess I got a bargain.

 

[Tokyohands]

I thought the 20 grand I paid for a mint condition, fully loaded, 2.5 year old Mercedes A45 AMG with 12,000 kms on the clock was a pretty good deal.

 

[Nitram]

A couple of Rolex promotional freebie books from a watch dealer which I recently sold for £130.

 

[daveinprague]

Doughnuts in Marks & Spencers in Prague 6kc!!!

 

[surlyseagull]

Greetings from Arizona.

Greetings from Sussex

 

[GOM]

It is both actually, mathemetics is a collective noun like ecoustics
Math or maths is really an abbreviation either way if you are British it's generally referred as maths
Personally I always thought that
2+2 = math
2+3+3 = maths
would make more sense

2+2 = mathematic
2+3+3 = mathematics
does that make more sense, I think not

 

[Dave the OAP]

It is ridiculous, but for us, its great, if we can tap into the profit, once we eventually retire and move.

I know what you are saying, but of course, when we look to retire Ina couple of years time, we will be looking for a bungalow on flat ground hopefully....peices for those are again stupid money, so it is all relative. Or you can do what my mum did, do an equity loan release, BUT with her she was badly advised ( or ignore the advice) and now that equity loan will take all of her house. 50 k takes 200k. Equity release will be the next PPI I am sure of it. Horrendous rip off.

 

[maltaseagull]

This is turning into one of the all time great threads.

I bought my house for two sheep in 1726 and now it's worth £3m...

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2 sheep?

You was robbed!

 

[bhaseeer]

Nice bag of ethereum for under £8 each. (now worth around £800 each...and highly likely to reach £2000+).

 

[Cian]

A house in need of a deep clean that was so nasty to be in that it scared away all the other potential buyers. About 100k sterling then and after about 20ks work it'd be about 250k now. Beats the majority of Homes Under The Hammer profits easily.

On a cheaper level, a 2005 bottle of Jameson 18 for 70 quid because the tube was slightly dented. Wanted to get a 1987 made whiskey for my 30th and was looking at closer to 200 for anything.

 

[Normski1989]

A bitcoin... some time ago.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I know what you are saying, but of course, when we look to retire Ina couple of years time, we will be looking for a bungalow on flat ground hopefully....peices for those are again stupid money, so it is all relative. Or you can do what my mum did, do an equity loan release, BUT with her she was badly advised ( or ignore the advice) and now that equity loan will take all of her house. 50 k takes 200k. Equity release will be the next PPI I am sure of it. Horrendous rip off.

Already know of peope who've experienced the equity horror, not good.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Already know of peope who've experienced the equity horror, not good.

The interesting one will come if she needs to go into a home for care. If we need to sell the house to pay for that, there probably won't be anything left in the house, so she may have no choice in the care home she would want unless my brother and I pay for it.

Which down in the West Country they are around £500 minimum, a week for a private one based on the care level. We certainly haven't got that sort of money to hand, so may need to remortgage our houses to pay for it!

 

[Weststander]

In 1976 I bought some shares for a pittance in a new company Apple Inc.

The rest is history.

Gotta go, got a LearJet to catch.

 

[AmexRuislip]

The interesting one will come if she needs to go into a home for care. If we need to sell the house to pay for that, there probably won't be anything left in the house, so she may have no choice in the care home she would want unless my brother and I pay for it.

Which down in the West Country they are around £500 minimum, a week for a private one based on the care level. We certainly haven't got that sort of money to hand, so may need to remortgage our houses to pay for it!

I maybe wrong, but you only have to pay up to a certain amount for care, leaving some funds to the person, then the rest is payed by local authorities?