Trash To Cash Challenge

Midmac

I bought a rolf harris stylophone in its box for £3 and fetched £59 on ebay.

My biggest markup yet

Chris369

Midmac wrote:

I bought a rolf harris stylophone in its box for £3 and fetched £59 on ebay.

My biggest markup yet

:eek: Bloody hell lol. Nice one. I wish i could spot deals like that. Where did you originaly buy it? Car boot?

Midmac

Chris369 wrote:

:eek: Bloody hell lol. Nice one. I wish i could spot deals like that. Where did you originaly buy it? Car boot?

yup
Just keep a look out

Mrsbojangles_2

Nice one Midmac!

Contains_Mild_Peril

Midmac wrote:

I bought a rolf harris stylophone in its box for £3 and fetched £59 on ebay.

My biggest markup yet

Wow, did you have to get to the boot sale first thing and hang around like a vulture while the stallholder unpacked? Stuff like that normally gets snapped up straight away!
I try to buy at least one item for eBay at every boot sale or jumble sale I attend. Some sell well, most make very small profits, some fail to sell at all.
My biggest profit to date was on a tuxedo I bought in my local Red Cross shop for £3, and sold for £62.
I seldom sell at car boot sales because I have no car of my own, so it's more hassle than it's worth for me.
Since the challenge has been issued, though, I will soon purchase an item (I know not what, but the next car boot sale in my town is 6th Feb so it may well be then) and post details of what it is and what I paid for it when I list it on eBay, then if it makes a loss you can all laugh at me!

Midmac

Im going to my boot sale on sunday so i will let you know what i get

blue_haddock

Well the other day i bought a set of alloy wheels for £25 and put them on ebay knowing i could make a few quid - they sold last night for £82 so i'm well happy!

MrB_2

Chris369 wrote:

What was the item?

Pewter Tankard, beleive it or not. Every once in a while you can come across things like this

carrie483

I bought 3 sink units from B&Q a few months back for £10 each and sold them on Ebay for £90 each.

I think thats my best return.

Carrie.

carrie483

After work every friday next to my bank (i have to cash my cheque) there is a charity shop, i always go in there. I found a set of Disney wine glasses, mickey and minnie, where they are the stems of the glass (am i making sense?) i bought them for £1 each but i won't sell them, they are lovely i have seen them on Ebay going for a few quid.