Can I make £1,024 in 11 weeks from nothing?

jobbingmusician

Never close auctions early! People are always trying this one on......:D

SoScrooge

benedictadams wrote:

SoScrooge and everyone doing a boot tomorrow keep your eyes out for a blue 746 BT phone, they are one of the rarest colours, cream colour is common so wouldn't fetch a profit

This one?

http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/images/Teleph/746-BLUE1-lg.jpg

Thanks, benedictadams!


Edit: just checked ebay: all read and all green items sell for £25-£30.

benedictadams

this is the sort of blue shade

http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/images/746_blue.jpg

there are none of this colour listed on ebay in the past 30 days

most homes must have had them in the 70s as it was one of the models you could rent off BT and a lot of them will have ended up in land-fill

SoScrooge

I have found this telephone on ebay, 130037026823. Looks like the blue shade we are after, but it sold for £8.


benedictadams or anyone, really..

Have you tried matched betting? I just checked Coral, betfair, paddypower and totesport sites... and they all look so different

Maybe I need to PM Dan29, the MB tycoon?

I think I am ok with the principle of MB, but where do you start once you opened an account with the bookies?

Thanks for your advice.

benedictadams

or another one which if you are very very lucky to find

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Retro-Ivory-Button-Trimphone-GPO-BT-766-786-Trim-Phone_W0QQitemZ170038273717QQihZ007QQcategoryZ42427QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

again the colour is the deciding factor

the sort of model which Linda had in Gimme Gimme Gimme

her's was pink, which they never actually made.

There are people out there who will buy a normal one for a few quid, tart it up and spray it any colour they want, and for some reason the customised ones will make more than the proper ones (it is hard to do as it has to look flawless)

benedictadams

sorry i can't help with the mb, i have never done it

Dan i think is the man to ask

(doesn't look as if there's many other people on-line)

benedictadams

If you get an old phone which has a few marks and surface scratches on the casing

remove the casing (which is a case of carefully removing the screw at the base and the screw which is in the middle of the dial thing)

get some t-cut (or poundland version) and polish it up

it will bring it up lovely

then put it back together

list on ebay

and let the money roll in!

SoScrooge

benedictadams wrote:

If you get an old phone which has a few marks and surface scratches on the casing

remove the casing (which is a case of carefully removing the screw at the base and the screw which is in the middle of the dial thing)

get some t-cut (or poundland version) and polish it up

it will bring it up lovely

then put it back together

list on ebay

and let the money roll in!

Gosh! How do you know all these tricks? and all those 70s items so well?

I say... lots of live and learn for me here!;)

benedictadams

a friend of an ex used to sell 746 and trim-phones on ebay and that was the best way to do it

if you have an old sticky label on a cd, or anything then get some furniture polish, leave it for a while, and it will lift it of a treat

(i should get my one kim and aggie type show!)

sandhabibi

It's surprising what will or wont sell on e-bay, I've found lately that things sell when relisted and have a few bids on them, not sure why didn't sell in first place but guess it depends on who is shopping and what they are looking for on ebay lol.
Well done everyone this challenge is going well.