What is your FINEST ebay transaction?

[Simster]

I am just starting a mass ebay session and it got me thinking about the last time I did this.

Mine happened a couple of years ago.

Had a shit corrigated iron 50 year old "shed" in the garden which I envisaged spending all day dismantling and taking to the tip.

Then a mate came over and suggested I ebay it. 10 days later, and I was £29.98 richer, and a couple had come over from SWINDON ohmy to pick it up in a pickup truck, and helped me dismantle it themselves. With two of us on the case, it took about an hour to take it apart and load it up. Massive result.

 

[Badger]

My best eBayerage was buying a CD changer for my Saxo for £25. When it arrived it turned out to be the wrong model but then I sold it a week later for £60.

At the same time I sold my knackered car stereo for £50 (making it clear in the advert that the CD player didn't work) and bought a brand new one of equivalent spec for the same price, not a bad piece of business.

Got to love the way people get carried with the bidding process.

 

[Amahwrang]

Use to ebay stuff I'd buy at auction once bought a load(30) of filters for cooker hoods for a fiver ended up selling each one for at least a tenner....result

 

[Seasider78]

I won an unlimited cinema pass in a raffle and put it in eBay and got £30 more than it would have cost the person to buy it from the cinema!!!

Also sold some Calvin Harris tickets online for mrs as she was ill and could not go and some looney paid £80 each for them.

Both auctions started at a pound and you do have to wonder about some of the people buying on there!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Mine's is yet to come. Got a couple of Pop Rivets (feat. Billy Childish) first pressing albums from 1979, incl. one with a rejection slip from Phonogram Records. There's one on there at the moment with a reserve price of £850.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

many old brighton programmes that were in very good nick surprisingly

once bought the pc game ultimate soccer 98,for 1.99,it was originally a freebie when you bought a pc,but recently saw it on amazon for 70 quid!!

 

[Mad Jack McMad]

Once sold an X-Box 360 Box for £170. Not bad for a bit of cardboard. Some divs never read things properly...

 

[Colossal Squid]

I bought eight Sega Dreamcast consoles from a guy in Newhaven for a tenner. He was clearing out his house which was like a graveyard for old consoles and games. The floor was scattered with Nintendo's, Playstations, control pads, joysticks, games and related peripherals. I have no idea how he'd acquired so much but I handed over the ten pounds and loaded up my car with the grubby looking consoles.

Once I got home I went over each machine with white spirit, giving them a far more healthy appearance. I then spray painted them in different colour combinations and took some flattering pics to relist on ebay as "Limited Edition" machines.

Like so:

Picked up job lots of games for peanuts because they had lost all their value thanks to the ease of piracy on Dreamcasts. Often you'd find them in charity shops or at the back of Cash Converters gathering dust. Simply bundle them up, take a few snaps and pair with one of my freshly painted consoles and you've got yourself a "complete retro gaming package".

In the end I managed to sell about 15 different packages with various games and accessories, and each for between £30 and £80.

Lovely bit of business, and I still have a few old machines lying around for my own amusement.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Had a load of old Hornby train stuff in a black bin bag in the loft.Normally it would have gone to the tip but i thought i would chuck it on Ebay.There was a couple of trains one of which had its wheels hanging off,a few carriages and trucks which looked worse for wear,some rusty track and a few parts of a station.
Couldn't believe me luck when i got 75 shooters for it!

 

[tinx]

I bought 2 bruce Springsteen tickets as a present for the missus, who then said she didn't want to go so I sold them on ebay as an auction and they went for £400. I only really wanted Face Value for them but hey not gonna turn that kind of money down.

 

[Bozza]

Years and years ago there was a site, something like Bargain Crazy - Cheap Designer Clothes, Furniture, Electricals, Homeware | Bargaincrazy.Com, that knocked out stuff from one of the catalogue groups. I noticed they had a DVD player that came with 6 discs and the cost of the package was about the same as one of the discs, "Bladerunner: Director's Cut", was going on eBay.

So I bought a load of them and split them out selling each disc individually, doing a controller hack on the DVD player to make it multi-region, drip-feeding them onto eBay. I can't remember the specifics but I was buying each set for c£25 and clearing c£75 for each one. Often the DVD player itself would sell for more than I'd bought it for.

For years now I simply can't be arsed with eBay though - the hassle of taking photos, writing up listings, packaging stuff up, going to a post office, getting postal receipts in case your purchaser tries it on etc - it's a massive faff and takes a load of time. Now, most of our stuff goes to the local charity shops.

 

[Colossal Squid]

For years now I simply can't be arsed with eBay though - the hassle of taking photos, writing up listings, packaging stuff up, going to a post office, getting postal receipts in case your purchaser tries it on etc - it's a massive faff and takes a load of time. Now, most of our stuff goes to the local charity shops.

Exactly why I knocked it on the head in the end. I was making good margins, but spending far too much time in post office queues.

 

[Dawn Korus]

never used Ebay, wish I did though as I have a signed CD, limited edition tea cup n saucer and 2 signed framed pictures of Florence and the Machine which I'd like to sell. There's a signed CD on there thast went for £50 a while ago, so would bring in some welcome cash

 

[robcorrall]

i bought an arctic monkeys ticket on ebay last week for £1.04. it was sent recorded delivery to me free of charge. was a top gig too.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

I've just bought a pair of 'as good as new' Dynaudio Contour 1.3 Mk II loudspeakers, plus Dynaudio Stand 4 stands for £ 523 from a chap just up the road from me.

With the stands they would have retailed for around £ 1,450 - £ 1,500 had I purchased them new a few years ago. They are hardly used and there's not a mark on them.

Will be combining them with my existing kit plus a new centre speaker and home cinema amp eventually.

 

[Foolg]

Sell all my old stuff on there, pays for new stuff most times.

Bought a few old football shirts and often sell for £20+ (usually cost me £1 each), and many of my clothes sell for more than i paid NEW. Sold a pair of trainers I paid £20 in an American Outlet store for around £80 once.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Bought a religous book,300 years old, at an auction for £9 in 1975...sold it on Ebay for £112 plus paid £50 towards postage to a collector in America.

Last week bought a very rare Elvis LP,for £1...one of his first,looked on Ebay there were two on there,one at £32.50 and the other was £46...think I might hold that one for a while...

 

[Titanic]

This week...a copy of "And I'll be Kit Napier" to replace my lost one. They are as rare as hens teeth.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It does get you thinking that there's so many antique/junk/charity shops in Brighton that there's a decent living to be made just picking up stuff cheap around town and selling it on ebay. Anybody on here actually gone down that route as a full/part time occupation?

 

[Staly]

Mine's is yet to come. Got a couple of Pop Rivets (feat. Billy Childish) first pressing albums from 1979, incl. one with a rejection slip from Phonogram Records. There's one on there at the moment with a reserve price of £850.

Wow, do they go for that much? I've got a copy of "Greatest Hits". Second pressing unfortunately, but signed. I'll have to go and see how battered it is....