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« on: August 23, 2007, 22:43:42 »
About 2 weeks ago I got a big Hippo bag of random electronic junk, it had a large number of Dot matrix displays I wanted to rip out. It all worked and was marine nav equipment so I thought what the hell and popped about a quarter of it on Ebay.

I paid £20 for the lot

6 items from it..


just a shade under £600 at finish!!!!! :shock:  :shock:

I have a shedload more in the back room!
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2007, 22:46:51 »
Love it...people will pay for any old rubbish...well done  :twisted:  :twisted:
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2007, 22:47:48 »
Wow thats great, I got £93 for a pair of naff Ferrari cufflinks I paid £5 for!
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2007, 22:53:05 »
Excellent!  Where do you go to buy a Hippo bag of random electronic stuff - apart from eBay of course?
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2007, 23:35:24 »
thing is you need to be lucky that what you are selling, someone out there really wants it

i had something last year that didnt get a bid in the first time around so i re-advertised and got it sold within an hour!
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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2007, 23:58:03 »
I sold an old tow rope with a wooden toggle on, I think it went for £30, I paid £3 for it!!!!  Crazy!!
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2007, 00:01:10 »
Was purchased down the boot sale. in particular there were 3 12" tft displays in there, they are what I really wanted. Turns out to be another ruggedised display and the other two are racing displays for Boats, worth a fair chunk.

I'll be setting reserves for the next round.
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2007, 08:18:28 »
i sold an old bus stop sign for £65 ..i got it out of a lake :lol:  :lol:



well done on the bits :wink:
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2007, 08:42:37 »
On the flip side, a friend got a touch-screen TFT display for the car for £30.  It was from an EPOS system and nobody bid because it didn't appear to be a normal monitor.
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2007, 14:12:34 »
Bought a Mini for £62 as a none runner spent £15 on a starter put it back on £538 later one happy chappy  :lol:
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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2007, 14:19:06 »
o how i love ebay :D :D :D
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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2007, 15:49:44 »
Got a coffee machine out of the skip at work, got £450 on eBay...  It was around the time of the tsunami so I gave it to charity, didn't really seem fair otherwise.
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« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2007, 16:19:57 »
Bought a SIIa V8 for £400, sold it for £2,100.

Dead chuffed.
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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2007, 18:00:35 »
product leaflets from work i sold for a fiver each just to see if someone would buy them and they did  :shock:  sold loads of them, you can get them free from any dealer though :?
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2007, 18:45:21 »
Ebay madness?  How about this?  A hijacked eBay ID and the scammer is currently selling more than 50,000 items (and rising by the second).
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« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2007, 19:55:57 »
Quote from: "JumboBeef"
Ebay madness?  How about this?  A hijacked eBay ID and the scammer is currently selling more than 50,000 items (and rising by the second).


59300 when i looked just now think i will bid on the panasonic videoprojrctor for $1.58 bargin :roll:  :wink:
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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2007, 10:00:28 »
Next dor neighbour brought home a projector from work, one of those you connect to a computer.
  They threw it in the skip as the bulb had gone in it and would have cost £450 for a new one. This model was £4500 new and it sold on ebay for £3000!
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2007, 10:48:09 »
we sold a bike trailer only used it once and we got more than we paid for it!!!!  
mind you won a very nice full cooker for caravan for £11.63 but gave the guy £15!!! :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2007, 22:03:05 »
Brought a 90 rear tub for under £4.00  :lol:
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2007, 01:29:30 »
I bought a Nikon F4 with a SB28 and a 70-200 F2.8 ED AF-S from Cash Generator for £70.00  :shock:

Sold it for a little bit more on Ebay........ :lol:
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« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2007, 00:23:50 »
bought a stab vest for a tenner, sold it for £230
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« Reply #21 on: August 28, 2007, 12:31:37 »
I got a non running Gas Gas for £700 then bled the clutch and sold it for £1300 a week later!!
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« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2007, 13:56:40 »
Ok

All payments in bar one.

So for 12 Items + 2 additional items - Paypal fees we have a grand total of

£1031.50!!!!!!!
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« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2007, 14:32:08 »
Got a silk tie as a corporate freebie from Claas (...quite nice, lots of little Lexion Combines on it)...currently sat on Ebay...10 bids....£56.83!!...and a Claas Alarm clock sat at £13.50 with 10 bids! (..another freebie)...Barmy!  :shock:  :D .....
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« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2007, 20:33:03 »
got a series 2 landy in exchange for some scrap metal...needed full restoration, sold it on flea-bay for near £600....plus £60 for the military hook that was on it and still have a pop up roof off it to sell.... :D  :D
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« Reply #25 on: August 30, 2007, 12:11:41 »
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I bought a Nikon F4 with a SB28 and a 70-200 F2.8 ED AF-S from Cash Generator for £70.00  :shock:

Sold it for a little bit more on Ebay........ :lol:


No surprise there, as one lot or seperates? Got a Nikon FM for nothing from a friend who bought it for the 50mm lens....
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« Reply #26 on: August 30, 2007, 12:50:34 »
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Quote from: "cardiff_gareth"
I bought a Nikon F4 with a SB28 and a 70-200 F2.8 ED AF-S from Cash Generator for £70.00  :shock:

Sold it for a little bit more on Ebay........ :lol:


No surprise there, as one lot or seperates? Got a Nikon FM for nothing from a friend who bought it for the 50mm lens....


Sold it all as seperates, the F4 had a MB15 (i think) grip on it, all in all it went for £400.00
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« Reply #27 on: August 30, 2007, 23:28:56 »
i got just short of £90 for a pair of 200Tdi dicovery cup holders... total madness...
i've made good money on ebay, it has paid for loads of mods to my truck, bought me some cool toys and will be paying for our summer holiday next year....
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« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2007, 00:47:15 »
Sold a marmite jar from the '70's for £46.00  :)
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« Reply #29 on: September 01, 2007, 04:04:24 »
A plastic rabbit from poundland(yes it cost £1), sold for £6.99 + p+p on ebay, did it about 4 times.....people are very silly when they are bored at home with a pc and a credit card
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