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Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Evilgoat 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!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: L90OOK on August 23, 2007, 22:46:51
Love it...people will pay for any old rubbish...well done  :twisted:  :twisted:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Boggert on August 23, 2007, 22:47:48
Wow thats great, I got £93 for a pair of naff Ferrari cufflinks I paid £5 for!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: thermidorthelobster 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?
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: strapping young lad 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!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: diggerdog36 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!!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Evilgoat 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.
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: wing nut 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:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: thermidorthelobster 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.
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: johnpirate 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:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: edy on August 24, 2007, 14:19:06
o how i love ebay :D :D :D
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: thermidorthelobster 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.
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: JumboBeef on August 24, 2007, 16:19:57
Bought a SIIa V8 for £400, sold it for £2,100.

Dead chuffed.
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: beast5680 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 :?
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: JumboBeef on August 24, 2007, 18:45:21
Ebay madness?  How about this? (http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZ4js2)  A hijacked eBay ID and the scammer is currently selling more than 50,000 items (and rising by the second).
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: gtomo2 on August 24, 2007, 19:55:57
Quote from: "JumboBeef"
Ebay madness?  How about this? (http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZ4js2)  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:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: barnhill4x4 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!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: simdeb 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:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: landyman37 on August 25, 2007, 22:03:05
Brought a 90 rear tub for under £4.00  :lol:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: cardiff_gareth 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:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: spyke_boi on August 28, 2007, 00:23:50
bought a stab vest for a tenner, sold it for £230
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: diggerdog36 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!!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Evilgoat 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!!!!!!!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: P16LET 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 .....
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: jonny ramrod 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
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Niel on August 30, 2007, 12:11:41
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....
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: cardiff_gareth on August 30, 2007, 12:50:34
Quote from: "Niel"
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
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: freeagent 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....
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Spacemud on August 31, 2007, 00:47:15
Sold a marmite jar from the '70's for £46.00  :)
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: SHERMAN TANK 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
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: winchman on September 01, 2007, 08:10:32
Went to a car boot bought a camera tripod for £6
Sold the remote focus bit from it for £56, when the bloke paid me asked if I had any other stuff?
Sold the tripod for £750
And he paid the carrage!
So bought our selves a £2000 caravan, in the right place at the right time for £750.
I love Ebay but havent done much lately, need to motorvate my self, But I am doing an auto jumble at the weekend, so hopefully should be good?
I find it pays for all the bits you cant justify spending the family cash on like motor bikes and off roaders
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: Evilgoat on September 01, 2007, 10:02:27
Quote from: "winchman"
Went to a car boot bought a camera tripod for £6
Sold the remote focus bit from it for £56, when the bloke paid me asked if I had any other stuff?
Sold the tripod for £750
And he paid the carrage!
So bought our selves a £2000 caravan, in the right place at the right time for £750.
I love Ebay but havent done much lately, need to motorvate my self, But I am doing an auto jumble at the weekend, so hopefully should be good?
I find it pays for all the bits you cant justify spending the family cash on like motor bikes and off roaders


Dont you find that for some reason ebay money isnt like real money so it gets spent faster :)
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: winchman on September 01, 2007, 10:50:40
Yes Ebay money is for the treats you woulnt normally buy.
Off to the shed to see what I can Ebay  :lol:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: spy on September 01, 2007, 13:58:54
Bought latex dog grooming mits from wilkos for approx £1.99, sold on ebay as "latex fetish spanker mits" for £14 - 18.  Managed a few sets a week for months but ebay kept removing them in the end.  Not acceptable apparently, no sense of humour more like!
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: winchman on September 01, 2007, 14:05:34
Quote from: "spy"
Bought latex dog grooming mits from wilkos for approx £1.99, sold on ebay as "latex fetish spanker mits" for £14 - 18.  Managed a few sets a week for months but ebay kept removing them in the end.  Not acceptable apparently, no sense of humour more like!


Thats a fab idea
Bloke near me bought some limited edition Marmite ( Guinness I think)
Added 60p to the price he paid, charged £3 P+P, sold 50-60 per day for a few weeks till Morrisons had none left

I did here a tale of a woman who goes to the local shoe shops and buys Stillettos size 8 and above for buttons as the shop dont sell many, they even save them for her now.
Takes them home gets a photo of her hubbys big fat hairy leg in them and sells them for cross dressers at a vast profit, just goes to show there is an bum for every seat.  :lol:
Title: OMG! Ebay Madness!
Post by: spy on September 01, 2007, 14:09:09
Hehe I can well believe that!  A the time I was selling the "spankers" I also sold a run of cheap studded dog collars and basically anything I could find that was made of latex.  The missus used to hate it when I dragged her round town on a saturday shopping for something I could redescribe and sell to fetish folk.  Plus she reckoned the guy in the pet shop was starting to recognise me lol
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