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

kirstycobie

wow, all these sound really good, i usually just stick to clothes when im buying at bootys to sell on ebay other wise i would have A LOT of junk lying about and other half would go mental!!!! wish i new a lot more about antiques and old books as they seem to sell for a lot of money, and i bet half of them on ebay are bought from the car boot sale!!

botanical

soolin wrote: »

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.

well I've got my fingers crossed for you!

soolin

kirstycobie wrote: »

wow, all these sound really good, i usually just stick to clothes when im buying at bootys to sell on ebay other wise i would have A LOT of junk lying about and other half would go mental!!!! wish i new a lot more about antiques and old books as they seem to sell for a lot of money, and i bet half of them on ebay are bought from the car boot sale!!

Clothes are th eonly thing I won't touch, virtually all the problems I ever had on ebay were when i have sold clothes.

botanical wrote: »

well I've got my fingers crossed for you!

Thank you, It's got a while to go yet but I do have a terrible feeling that it will go unsold. I've never seen so many watchers though.

charlies_mum

Bought a Bad Taste Bear at a car boot for 20p and sold it on Ebay for £190.

Also bought a mixed box at auction and a broken Wedgwood figure sold again on Ebay for £350. I had no idea what it was, but apparently it was mega rare and made for the 1936 Olympics.

dotdotdot

Love reading this post! so glad i am not the only person to get excited about car boot/charity shop bargains!! My best sell on from a find recently was a shower gel also from a posh range , bought for 50 p and sold for £28!!!! I DO FIND STORAGE GETS ON MY HUBBYS NERVE THOUGH! by the way , what on earth is a bad taste bear? must be worth looking out for if they make such a profit!

charlies_mum

dotdotdot wrote: »

! by the way , what on earth is a bad taste bear? must be worth looking out for if they make such a profit!

Have a look on Ebay. As the name implies, they are rather rude

dotdotdot

Had a look on e bay!!!! odd little objects....none are selling for £190 though!

kirstycobie

yes, i get really excited aswell, love finding a bargin and selling it on for more!!especially the ones where you make !00% + proffit!!!!

kirstycobie

That is excellent!!! £190!!! bet you were over the moon with that!

zoesmummy_2006

Igot my son a comforter toy from charity shop in town few months back but he wouldmt take to it, he has his blanket n thats it!! So i looked into it and it was made by manhatten who make the whoozits, so i thought id have look at completed listings on ebay and found a few had sold for £25 plus post! So i stuck it on, got few watchers straight away, then someone snapped it up for their grand daughter as a spare. I was chuffed to bits as i only paid 30p for it! I also bought him some rockport boots from the carboot when he was little but he never wore them as by time he started walking his feet were too big. I had no idea rockport was expensive, i just thought they were cutr lol. Paid £1.50 at car boot and started them at that on ebay. They sold for £24 plus post! I nearly died of shock lol!! X