The Ebay Goldmine Thread

Contains_Mild_Peril

cookiemonster25 wrote:

i tend to visit next clearance and buy when the sale is on, sold 2 bedspreads bought for £10 each for £30 plus p&p( rrp £70) and a ladies jacket bought for £10( rrp £50) currently selling at £19.99 plus p&p, people love next, bargain for them and a profit for me ( avoid baby clothes though not sure why they just dont seem to ssell)

I once bought a brand new Next jacket from Oxfam's sale rail for £1.49 (missing its Next tag but still had Woolmark tag attached) which looked like a very recent style, similar to those in Next at about £70 at the time, but it failed to attract a bid on eBay when I listed at £4.99 start, and still didn't sell when relisted at £3.49 start. I have occasionally bought from shop clearance sales and sold at a profit on eBay though.

Tirian

tsharp wrote:

That's cos Ico is a classic game that is beautifully made. There is an edition that has a series of card artwork with it too. I have tried to buy it off ebay a couple of times, but give up when it gets to about £20+.

Careful with this .. you need to know your market on this stuff. You might have been able to get £50 for Ico once, but not any more. There was a sequel released not too long ago, and they did a massive budget re-release of Ico at the same time. You'll be lucky to get a tenner for it now. The card box version with the art cards might get you £30 if it's in good nick, and you get lucky.

Now, what you *really* want to find is the promo version sent out to magazine reviewers that came in a huge fold out cardboard box with a giant Ico candle and a load of posters and things. Now *that* is worth some serious money. Like £200+.

Another goodie - old Sega 32X games. Most are worth nothing. Several are worth a ton of money. Primal Rage - £200-£300; Darxide - £750-£1000; T-Mek - £600-£700. Knuckles Chaotix - £40-£50. Kolibri - £30-£50 (all must be the UK versions, not the US versions).

Tirian

skint_yorkie

Andyr11 wrote:

Hope its ok my bumping this thread to the top but I have made a bit of money recently purchasing parts from a scrapyard and flogging them on ebay for a hell of a lot more. I have spent out £74.00 on 8 parts in the last month and made myself a not to shabby £563.

Blimey!!! well done :T

Any tips on what type of parts tend to sell?

Obviously not a complete engine or gearbox :rotfl:

Something small/cheap to post?

jet77

Royal Scot Glassware - saw some in charity shop for a tenner and they were selling for 60 on ebay.

The most expensive thing I've ever sold was some Horse of the Year Show Tickets for 50 pounds and I'd won them through a competition in the local paper so it was pure profit!!

clairehas

i brought a purse in the next sale for a £1 and sold it for £6.50 (rrp £10!!!)

and i had some ford fiesta brochures come through the post so sold them for £2 each!! bargain as they were free!

gallygirl

I 'acquired' a £5 Love2shop voucher (long story, don't ask!!!!!) - put it up for sale with free postage - just sold for £5.51????????

Can anyone explain this?

Also pampers and other vouchers etc obtained free will sell - presumably in addition to mothers some unscrupulous shopkeepers ahve found a nice little earner????

Am currently up to £1.56 on a popcorn machine DD got free - couldn't shift it on freeecycle.......

is it me????

clairehas

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!

donna_dynamo

i brought a bundle of clothes for £6 on ebay. my partner said they looked scruffy so i sold the next dungarees from the bundle and they sold for £9 so i had a £3 profit and other clothing to sell. Childrens clothing sells well but not anything under 6 months. i currently purchase stuff from matalan clearence and sell on ebay i make a little bit of money mainly pocket money.:cool: which goes towards my debt

debt now £8361.:eek: :eek:

EagerLearner

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!

I know - I don't get this either ! However, I have 3 (HMV, Boots, Next)vouchers on E-bay tonight and I am 99% sure they will sell for close to £5 each - I think it's people who cannot get to the shops for some reason - perhaps disabled or or they want to buy a gift voucher for a relative that likes a certain shop but the buyer doesn't have that shop near them. Or maybe simply, they live too far from the shop that sells the vouchers and prefer to just get it in the post.

heppy23

Old London underground maps sell very well (pre-1960's).

My godfather died in 1983. I was given a box full of old tube maps and bus maps. I was a bit interested in them at the time as i was into maps.
I got left £100 as well. I was supposed to get more apparently but there was a shortfall in his estate.

The maps got put away and I came across them about 4 years ago.
I emailed a few places and they all said "too specialist, i won't touch them."

So I thought I'd try ebay. I got one of the maps, scanned it and stuck it on ebay with a buy it now of £25 (just for a laugh). It sold within about an hour of being listed! i thought i must have shot myself in the foot with that price if it sold so quick so I sold another one by my normal ebay methods (99p start, 10 day auction so you cover at least one weekend). This one went for about £60! I listed one or two a week until they were all gone. I ended up selling most of them to this one guy who nearly always won the auctions. The cheque would arrive super quick. I asked him if he wanted to make an offer for what I had left but he said he preferred to have fun watching the auctions!

I must have cleared £1500 I reckon. All the tube maps went. Left with some bus stuff but that doesn't seem to go so well. Might have another try over the winter. So I got my inheritance in a way, albeit 19 years later! Thanks to my godfather Briss R.I.P.