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What is your FINEST ebay transaction?
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Lindfield by the Pond
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We were extending the house, and needed the conservatory taking down to do so. Builders were going to charge me £400 to remove and dispose. Put it on e-bay, and a fella came down from Liverpool and paid me £600. Was well chuffed. It was a good conservatory, and I think he did well, but made me £1k to the better!
Me & my hubby went to a charity shop where they were selling any 5 items of clothing for a £1. One of the items we got was a WBA shirt from the 70's . Hubby stuck it on ebay. Within half an hour someone offered £30 if he could buy it now. Hubby decided to hold out. 5 days later he sold it for £83 . Now thats good business
Stevie Boy
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brought and sold loads of shit, lastest thing i sold was a couple of relays for an escort rs turbo, i even said in the auction listing that they are no good and ebay is the place to sell your shit
disgruntled h blocker
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Bought a hoodie on eBay, didn't like the colour so emailed the seller and posted it back for another colour... The replacement didn't arrive in two weeks so I emailed them again - they sent me the same colour again, so I contacted them Again, posted back the new hoodie... Never arrived again so I moaned, and finally got the right colour. Next day I got two returned parcels from Rival Mail... So for the cost of one hoodie and £6 of stamps I got 3 tops...
Not a massively lucrative one but bought a Nintendo 64 with 6 games and pads for £20 to relive those classic goldeneye moments.
Sold four of the games separately for £80, apparently they were rare and highly sought after despite missing the box and manual.
There appears to be a market for retro consoles / carts going by my experienc and the earlier dreamcast post.
Sold four of the games separately for £80, apparently they were rare and highly sought after despite missing the box and manual.
There appears to be a market for retro consoles / carts going by my experienc and the earlier dreamcast post.
Gary Leeds
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- May 5, 2008
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I have 2, first one was a box of about 80 broken subbuteo players.All of them were snapped off, arms missing and repainted. A right mess to be honest, went for 85 quid 
Second one was an advertising flyer from a fruit machine, work paid about 10 quid for the whole machine which was being scrapped for parts, I found the flyer in the bottom and stuck it on eBay, 10 days later I was £16.83 richer, for a sheet of A4 paper
Second one was an advertising flyer from a fruit machine, work paid about 10 quid for the whole machine which was being scrapped for parts, I found the flyer in the bottom and stuck it on eBay, 10 days later I was £16.83 richer, for a sheet of A4 paper
Two words - AMAZON MARKETPLACE. So much easier and quicker. No need for photos, descriptions, sorting shipping with buyer, or any after sales gubbins.
Stuck 16 items on last night (took about 25 minutes) - sold 5 of them already and sending them out today.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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This week. I bought a table football game that would be more than £100 new, and will be Moshe Jnr's main Christmas present, for the princely sum of £6.50... nice.
byf
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I bought the 2x albion season tickets that were advertised on here for last season. I got 2x adult season tickets for £400!!! They were won in a raffle, I was buying one anyway but ended up saving over £400 by buying them.
Also Gary Hart's last ever shirt he wore from the Huddersfield game for £200. it's now framed right behind me as I type, watching himover the last 10 years meant that he's a legend that I'll never forget and its one of my most prized possessions.
Also Gary Hart's last ever shirt he wore from the Huddersfield game for £200. it's now framed right behind me as I type, watching himover the last 10 years meant that he's a legend that I'll never forget and its one of my most prized possessions.
I have two old Powerbooks from about 5 years ago (both silver (aluminium?) - one is 15" and totally broken, the other is 17" and has a faulty screen that works about 30% of the time - any idea how much I could get for each/where's best to ask?
Pat McCrotch
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4-5 years ago we decided to knock through our kitchen/dining room and treat ourselves to a new kitchen. Not a great deal wrong with the old one other that it was a little dated for the wife's taste. I took photos of the old kitchen, dismantled the units carefully and bunged it on ebay. Think i ended up getting about £350 for the lot. Sweeet.
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Interesting. How does that work then? I'd have thought you'd need to specify shipping etc?
I just always choose Amazons default shipping rates. Give it a try sometimes. The only downside is it needs to generally be a "non-unique" product, ie something that would already be on Amazons database. But obviously plenty of items are.
You still have to buy packaging stuff, prepare stuff for posting, go to a post office and then queue in the post office. It is a bloody faff - you'll never convince me otherwise.
(That said, and possibly inspired by this thread, I did list an item last night but it's big and heavy so I've gone for collection only.)
Barrel of Fun
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A good friend of mine sells loads of old nintendo's, games, wires, controllers and so on. Nice bit of extra income to support his business.
Suttonroadsaddler if I remember correctly.
Suttonroadsaddler if I remember correctly.
Brilliant ..;-)