What have you bought at the booty and sold for a profit on ebay

kirstycobie

Hiya,

i recently started going to the car booty on a sunday and then listing what ive bought on ebay to sell, so just wondered what others have bought and sold for a profit, heres some of my recent ones:

Size 8 pair of womens heels, bought for £1 sold for £10.50
Ladies tracksuit bottoms bought for £1 sold for £13.09
girls faux leather jacket bought for £1 sold for £8

soolin

I buy lots from car boot sales and charity shops to resell. Just remember though that it makes you a business and you do need to register with HMRC.

My only fear is that HMRC will audit my accounts one year and I'll have to explain why I cannot produce receipts for a percentage of my business stock bought like that.

botanical

kirstycobie wrote: »

Hiya,

i recently started going to the car booty on a sunday and then listing what ive bought on ebay to sell, so just wondered what others have bought and sold for a profit, heres some of my recent ones:

Size 8 pair of womens heels, bought for £1 sold for £10.50
Ladies tracksuit bottoms bought for £1 sold for £13.09
girls faux leather jacket bought for £1 sold for £8

Congratulations-those are pretty good figures! I can't get out and about, so I find things in different ways;

You know how some pictures in listings on eBay are really bad? They attract little to no interest because it's not clear what the item actually is! I've often taken the picture out to clean it up and got a fantastic item for 99p which I sell on.

My best resell from a terrible picture was a New with Tags silk devore coat for 99p in perfect condition, resold after some research for £75.
Another was a 30's style glamorous coat with a huge fur collar bought for £1.04, resold for £35.

I've had many other successes from these terrible pictures, although I've had a couple of duds too, but you're only risking 99p plus p&p.

I've always adored charity shops-it's amazing how often you can find things that have only been worn once or even unworn things with the tags still on. Better than chocolate!

kirstycobie

wow, thats great botanicle, ive been to few charity shops aswell and sold for a profit

anyone else?

emmaglet

Bought a shower gel (by Philosophy) for 50p, sold for £9.

Percy1983

I have never bought anything to resell at a profit mr taxman.

With that I do mean to get down the car boots etc, but when I do I never know what to buy and I would just end up with loads of rubbish I can't shift so don't don't buy anything.

botanical

Percy1983 wrote: »

I have never bought anything to resell at a profit mr taxman.

With that I do mean to get down the car boots etc, but when I do I never know what to buy and I would just end up with loads of rubbish I can't shift so don't don't buy anything.

I know what you mean. Before I sold on eBay I was a bit random in my buying (ahem!) but now I can whack through a charity shop and see what's likely to sell pretty quickly. It makes 'browsing' more targeted, I suppose.
But I still get a thrill going into charity shops. It must be the thrill of the chase or a version of hunting-gathering!

botanical

emmaglet wrote: »

Bought a shower gel (by Philosophy) for 50p, sold for £9.

wow! that's incredible

soolin

Many years ago I bought a decorative ink well from the White Star line for 20p. Sold it for over £20, shame I only ever managed that once!

tattycath

I once bought a musical figurine from a car boot for 10p I kept it a while but got bored with it so i sold it on ebay for £12.99.

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

I bought a handmade "granny squares" crocheted blanket for £1 at a car boot and sold it for £35!