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Lindfield by the Pond

Well-known member
Jan 10, 2009
1,924
Lindfield (near the pond)
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!
 


tinytears

New member
Feb 5, 2010
113
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

Well-known member
Nov 2, 2004
6,364
Horam
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

Active member
Oct 16, 2003
819
Ampfield
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...
 


Smile

Active member
Aug 19, 2011
230
Painted a picture (took about 2 hours) , stuck it on ebay it reached 289 quid. Buyers address was Knightsbridge so googled hes name and it was the guy who designed Princess Diana's wedding dress - David Emanuel. Mad
 


See-Goals

DIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE
Aug 13, 2004
1,172
Seaford
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.
 




Gary Leeds

Well-known member
May 5, 2008
1,526
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
 


Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,915
Surrey
And now I've just paid £62 for a brand new lego set that retails for around £90. (Lego Hogwarts Castle)

Pleasing.
 


Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
32,381
Brighton
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.

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

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2005
12,180
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

New member
Sep 26, 2003
4,034
Bournemouth
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.
 


Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
32,381
Brighton
White plastic? I'll give you £150.

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

Lurker
Oct 25, 2005
1,559
Shoreham-by-the-sea
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.
 


Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,915
Surrey
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.
Interesting. How does that work then? I'd have thought you'd need to specify shipping etc?
 


Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
32,381
Brighton
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.
 


Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
57,058
Back in Sussex
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.

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

Abort, retry, fail
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.
 


BigGully

Well-known member
Sep 8, 2006
7,139
My family and I haven’t had much luck on e-bay really.

My aunt and uncle drove down from Swindon and ended up with a shit corrugated iron 50 year old shed and paid a fortune for it.

Someone listed a perfectly good car stereo which I bought for £50 which clearly wasn’t working in the first place.

Bought my son what I thought was an Xbox for £170 and all I got was an empty box.

The next year I thought I would get him a train set. I paid £75 for a working set that was really a load of old rubbish that should have really been put into a bin bag.

I bought my daughter an Iphone for £150 and the bloody thing doesn’t work.

Still, at least i’ve got four nice Hermes ties that only cost me £400.

Brilliant ..;-)
 


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