The Ebay Goldmine Thread

donna-j_2

Last year Boots were giving away £10 electrical vouchers if you spent over £15 or thereabouts. I was buying loads of baby stuff so ended up with a handful of these. I sold them all (six I think) to one buyer for £1.25 each. they all went in one envelope with a first class stamp.

Pure profit. I was gobsmacked but she probably used them to get money off and then sell on.

I sold a swimsuit bnwt for £22 inc postage. I had stated that the rrp was £20. Madness.

greeneye

Floxxie wrote:

My husband's old rock t-shirts; I'm gobsmacked at how much people are willing to pay for them - £109 for two! Will keep an eye out now on car boots....

Fiona

Any specific bands? And was there a specific t-shirt manufacturer?
(thinking there might be a company that made them at the time that's maybe out of business now which would identify them as originals and not modern day repros)

peskie_pixie

clairehas wrote:

i can never understand that with vouchers! why? why do people pay more than the value when they can just get them in a shop!

confuses me everytime!

Thanks to the peeps who mentioned vouchers. I'd never even considered putting them on e bay.

Anyway got £20 of body shop one's i don't want so i'll see how it goes

punkgirlyuk

I think the best thing to do is specialise in a certain area. If it is an area you know inside out then you will easily spot what to buy. At the moment I buy 7" singles for 99p when they first come out. I work in music so I have a good idea of what bands etc are going to become popular. I then hold on to them and sell them a few months down the line when they are more well known. I make anything from £2 to £30 per record.

I was a huge fan of a band called Ash. I had load of their 7inch singles and sold them when I stopped liking them. A lot of them where quite rare and i made £10+ profit on each. I found someone selling a rare fan club only singlr for £15 BIN and bought it, sold it for £100

Also my boyfriend bought a Grenadier Guards jacket for £30, just before the Libertines became famous he then sold it for £130 on ebay. He also made his own cut off denim jacket with studs and Iron Maiden patch etc, probly cost £20 to make and sold for £45.

kriss_boy

I started off selling t-shirts, but ebay grew in size and competition means theres 1000 people earning a quid a day... instaed of 50 earning 20 quid...

I sell a product for more than 10 times what I pay for it at charity shops and car boot sales. I can spend £10 at the car boot and get a couple of hundreds worth. I cant reveal it but thats not the point because theres 100s of things like it with the same turnover.

Just do your research.

One off things that I can reveal... an electric velux blind I paid £1 sold for nearly 100 quid. And I just picked up another for a couple of quid at a carboot.

The motley crue autobiography i was selling for around 20 quid... and buying them outa ottakars sale bin for 50pence... sold about 5 of them.

A toaster I paid 40 quid for.. says "i love you".. sold two last year for double. Theres a guy selling them for 30 now so thats the end of that.

Floxxie

greeneye wrote:

Any specific bands? And was there a specific t-shirt manufacturer?
(thinking there might be a company that made them at the time that's maybe out of business now which would identify them as originals and not modern day repros)

Anthrax, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Motorhead to name a few. I don't think there is a specific manufacturer but there are certainly a lot of fans, collectors and dealers out there. They all seem very interested on what is on the back of the shirt so I am guessing that this changes depending on the age of the item.

tsharp

Yowser! I threw out all my dodgy metal t shirts when i realised that heavy metal sucked (ok, some bands still rock), wish i kept them now!

Floxxie

tsharp wrote:

Yowser! I threw out all my dodgy metal t shirts when i realised that heavy metal sucked (ok, some bands still rock), wish i kept them now!

:rotfl:

I keep on getting messages from eBayers asking me to sell the t-shirt to them and they will send me CDs/DVDs etc of the band - yikes I couldn't think of anything more scary!

Trying to get husband to sell vinyl collection but apparently I wouldn't leave the house alive if I did...this is what happens when you marry a rock fan...

flufff

All in one wolf bike leathers paid £20 on car boot went for around £132.One very happy partner

flufff

uk only edition my little ponies.....winter snow was one cant remember others names sets of 3 went for £100 upwards to americans cost around £18 for set