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

plumb1_2

I bought something a few weeks ago for £25 and sold it for £325, couldn.t beleive my luck, getting it for £25.

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

plumb1 wrote: »

I bought something a few weeks ago for £25 and sold it for £325, couldn.t beleive my luck, getting it for £25.

:eek::j Wow! Now why can't I find something like that?!

ebeegeebee_2

love this thread !! i took voluntary redundancy last may , decided to have a gap year ( life is just to short to work 24/7.. best thing i have ever done, my passion these days are hunting bargains in charity shops, jumble sales, car boot sales etc, and selling at a profit in auction sites... ok i'm not earning thousands but i am very happy with life at the moment and enjoy the thrill of the bargain hunt no end!!:T

cosine25

I've found that with car boot sales the most profitable thing to do is stick to a few categories which you're somewhat familiar with. Even though I'm not an expert I've done fantastically with rare kid's books- I bought one for 10p at a jumble sale and sold for £255! Another was bought for 75p and went for £95. Mostly I buy them for 15p-£2 and re-sell them for £5-£25, still a great profit margin.

Of course, there's always a few which buck expectations. I was convinced one I bought was worth a fortune and ended up selling for £1.35 :undecided

botanical

cosine25 wrote: »

I've found that with car boot sales the most profitable thing to do is stick to a few categories which you're somewhat familiar with. Even though I'm not an expert I've done fantastically with rare kid's books- I bought one for 10p at a jumble sale and sold for £255! Another was bought for 75p and went for £95. Mostly I buy them for 15p-£2 and re-sell them for £5-£25, still a great profit margin.

Of course, there's always a few which buck expectations. I was convinced one I bought was worth a fortune and ended up selling for £1.35 :undecided

What an inspiration! I'm going to start looking at rare kid's books!

( When I was about 9 or ten, I bought 4 hardback 'Just William' books by Richmal Crompton for 3/-. They've always been very precious to me and I'd never sell them, but I couldn't believe the prices for them I've seen recently! )

You've obviously got a very good instinct, cosine- congratulations

nursingthepennies

inspiring reading ! i don't buy to sell on ebay as i have nowhere to put anything and am trying to clear the house not add to the nick-nacks! however i once found an old pen at a jumble sale in edinburgh. i bought it for 5p and only realized when i got home it wasn't a cartridge-type one. since i couldn't be bothered to faff about with filling it direct from an ink bottle i put it on ebay - it sold, to my complete astonishment for £62!

Quenastoise

I never made any profit

What I do do, though, is buy items that appeal to me personally and find out about their history. I like to think that some of the stuff has some resale value, and sometimes I list them on Ebay but if they don't sell - and they usually don't - then I am happy to keep them. I drink my morning coffee from a Coronation mug from 1953, the chicken is carved on a 150-year old meat plate and the cutlery is silver-plated. Despite the finery, my cooking is distinctly average, though

I would recommend going with your gut instinct when it comes to choosing what to buy, specialising in one type of item and trying to become as knowledgeable about the subject as possible.

botanical

Quenastoise wrote: »

I never made any profit

What I do do, though, is buy items that appeal to me personally and find out about their history. I like to think that some of the stuff has some resale value, and sometimes I list them on Ebay but if they don't sell - and they usually don't - then I am happy to keep them. I drink my morning coffee from a Coronation mug from 1953, the chicken is carved on a 150-year old meat plate and the cutlery is silver-plated. Despite the finery, my cooking is distinctly average, though

I would recommend going with your gut instinct when it comes to choosing what to buy, specialising in one type of item and trying to become as knowledgeable about the subject as possible.

I love the feeling of your post Quenastoise!

Talking about 'living well', I've got unruly hair and when it was windy in the garden I couldn't find my hat, so I shoved a pair of my husband's y-fronts on my head which did a good job. I answered the doorbell a little later and got a very strange look from the postie. You've guessed it....I decided to never be caught out like that ever again. Now I've managed to develop quite a refined and foolproof wardrobe for being in my cottage garden.

Now for the chipped mugs etc indoors!

Mrs_Money

ebeegeebee wrote: »

love this thread !! i took voluntary redundancy last may , decided to have a gap year ( life is just to short to work 24/7.. best thing i have ever done, my passion these days are hunting bargains in charity shops, jumble sales, car boot sales etc, and selling at a profit in auction sites... ok i'm not earning thousands but i am very happy with life at the moment and enjoy the thrill of the bargain hunt no end!!:T

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I think my family think I'm a bit odd to keep scouring all the charity shops wherever we go! Even if i don't manage to find anything, I still find it all facinating just browsing!

soolin

Well, I've got a piece of [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] oops, I mean highly collectable thingy on ebay that was thrown in when I bought something else at auction. It literally was left on the side and the auctioneer accused me (in a friendly way) of trying to leave my junk behind and insisted I took it with me as it formed part of my lot.

Bunged it on ebay with a good description but also with the proviso I didn't know what it was..and i have 26 watchers..quite a record for me. I only just realised it is on ebid for a BIN at £1 , so I have hurried to remove it from there just in case it takes off on ebay.*

What's the betting though it goes unsold at £1.50 :rotfl:

* edited to add that on ebid it had the most page views of anything I have ever had in my shop, 7 page views when I removed it.