Turn £100.00 into £10.000.00+ by the end of 2010 official thread PART 2

Whatagain

Wow, you get sick for a few days and look what happens! I've done my best to catch up but there is so much it is making me dizzy! I am going to make sure I read and post daily, I want to keep up with all your ideas.

Due to us both having the lurgy we have not done as much as planned. I did have a bot of a blitz today and have quite a few things in the freezer for easy cooking. The OH was given £20 of M&S vouchers and he headed down today to get us some bits. He got the meal deal and the 1.7kg Chicken is in the freezer, we have eaten the roast veg with some fish and gobbled the dessert, we are now making headway in the vino and feeling good! He also got the 3 meats for £10 and got us two 650g beef roasting joints, a 750g pork joint, a 1.8kilo chicken reduced to £3 and a kilo of beef mince for £5. We also had a save £5 voucher when you spend £25 so the haul only cost us £3!

We are both very fussy about our meat and only buy high welfare food, it is not just chickens, I was sickened when I discovered how other animals such as cows and pigs are treated. Most of the pork products sold in this country have been reared in conditions that would be illegal here. It is also amazing how many cows, sheep and pigs never see outdoors. M&S is the highest rated supermarket by compassion in world farming and all the beef/pork we have purchased is outdoor reared, British meat. It is cheaper than buying all organic which is our ultimate goal and a better price and quality than comparable meat from other supermarkets. We are going to make the biggest reduction in our food bills by eating a lot less meat and much more vegetarian meals.

Sorry for the wholier than thou post but I wanted to explain that buying M&S is not always a frivoulous waste of money!

Hope you have all had a great weekend. I can't believe it is nearly Monday aready.

Whatagain

cherryJ

Woo hoo, just caught up with this thread
Things are moving slowly but surely with me. Invested most of my £100 into matched betting, have more or less doubled my money now, just waiting for it to be deposited into my bank When I get the Quidco's through, it will be another £100 profit, so very pleased with that.
Have some stock waiting for me at home that I ordered so hopefully going to sort and list that tomorrow, just been setting up a new ebay account, registering as a business. However, they have to phone your home number, which is no good as I'm not there at the moment!!
Listed a bunch of clothes on ebay that I've had sitting in a box for absolutely ages. Was going to just chuck em out (well, recycle them) but this thread gave me the boost to be bothered to list them on ebay Glad I did, cos all my auctions just ended tonight & I've raked in £105! That's not all profit, as I sold 2 vouchers for a spa and a haircut that I bought ages ago but haven't got round to using. The rest of it is all just old clothes though, so very pleased

paulabear

Hi all, had a fairly productive day yesterday, have sold enough on Ebay, Amazon, and have done 1 mystery shop which has earned back nearly all the money I've spent so far, and have still got five items I've bought to sell, all of which should get a bit more than I paid for them and my mannequin has been dispatched!!! It's a female torso one that stands independently, at least I hope it does, it looked like it was in the photo...

Going to sign up for Bingo Britain tomorrow so wish me luck, eeeek!
Have also listed some stuff from around the house including a Living Dead Doll that has no box and parts missing that I thought would get nothing; it's got two bids and seven people watching after one day! Might be the sob story I wrote for it;
Poor Lulu has been badly treated... her roller skates are missing their wheels and her box is lost : ( oh, the misery of it all.
If you've always wanted a Living Dead Doll and don't mind there not being a box for her to sleep in (or wheels on her skates) then here's your chance.
Happy to ship anywhere, anywhere at all, it can't be worse than here - although I will need to adjust postage accordingly.
Any questions please ask, I'm really very lonely.
Thank you

Hehehe! Well it works for X Factor contestants...

Ooh and I walked past an old bathroom cabinet someone was chucking out and I now have two big mirrors to practise engraving on (despite DS telling me to stop it because it was naughty to break things!!) Too tired to have a go now though, Well done everybody, we're all trying hard aren't we? I think it's an achievement in itself

copperjar

Well there was nothing doing in the charity shops in town today. There was a record and DVD fair in the town hall, popped in but the prices weren't great at all. Not sure how you go about getting a pitch in there (there's another one in March) but I reckon I could do okay as a seller (not a buyer) - my CDs are all in a hell of a lot better condition than the ones they were selling. Might check it out.

I've just put 7 items on eBay, higher starting prices than usual because of the free listing! And within literally 5 minutes sold one of my items on a BIN for £45! I wasn't even going to bother listing it thinking it wouldn't go - really can't believe it! Better go find something to pack it in now!

On less happy news, got my first eBay bill - £21. Ugh!

Siouxsie32

copperjar wrote: »

On less happy news, got my first eBay bill - £21. Ugh!

That's good news copperjar - it means you've sold lots :rotfl:

Tinka21

I've sold another £38 worth of stuff tonight! yay

JoeyGrey

My update - I've listed about 70 items on eBay so far with 50 or so still on there or relisted. It is never the things I expect that sell well, which makes me nervous to invest in anything specific as yet.

I realised today that I'm working on the principle of casting my net as far and wide as possible in order to see what there is interest in and hopefully I'll find my niche.

I've spent most of my £100 on totally random things that I'm sure I can at least make my money back on. I've also put a lot of loft "rubbish" on ebay. Now I have to sit on my hands and see what happens. No more spending for me now until I start to get something back for it.

Like someone else said earlier today, I didn't want to spend my money on just one or two expensive items that I might lose on until I have loads more experience and knowledge. At least with the things I've invested in I won't lose too much if they end up back in the loft again.

Has anyone else managed to spread the bug for this challenge to others? My colleague at work has spent the whole weekend helping her mum list things on ebay, just because of a conversation they had about how determined I am to do this. Her mum now has the bug too, and is going for it. Then another colleague at work, who poo-poohed the idea at first, admitted that he had walked round his flat on Thursday night and gathered a few things together that he wondered if I'd ebay for him!!! :rotfl: I just need to work a bit harder on my sisters now.

moneymabel

Yay my first Ebay sale of something I bought to resell-woo-hooo! a whole £4 profit :-) well still a loss coz need to scrape back my £100 first, haven't put anyhting in my sig as me and OH have invested £200 in stock etc so would have to be £200-£20,000, and haven't got the brain power to individually list each of our sales separately as well as together for tax etc.

dillidalli

Another £40 off bingo britain woo haa! Have a few more ebay auctions to sort out. I am also going to take hypno's a piece advice (although all of it was great!) and get some paper portfolios made up. I always think digitally - I forget sometimes that people want something that they can hold, and not a www or email address.
Other than that just getting over a really nasty cold bug, so I am so happy that I am getting better.

Also as an alternative courier service I was going to mention parcel monkey. Interparcel are okay unless you choose my Hermes. They are one of their suppliers. They did not show up to pick up a package on the day that they said (Tuesday). Then, then they show up Friday instead - the excuse was bad weather. But, the other courier company made it so I was not impressed. So, I used Parcel Monkey as an alternative when I did not hear back from interparcel. All sorted in the end

Tinka21

Just checked ebay and I have got some resell items on there for 6.99 BIN and I have also put one on auction and it has been bid up to 8.00! lol I might stick them all on auction!