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

JC_Derby

bought a pc game from a charity shop in cambridge on a day out... must have paid about £2 i bet, then sold it for £25 on ebay!
also bought a few bundles of games and sold individual ones for much more.

started going to a proper auction near me...get some stuff from there and done ok...not made a profit though;)
However Oh goes spare at having stuff in the house.

jasmineswhiskers

stormchaos wrote: »

A few years ago I got a huge bible from the tip, it had brass clasps and corners etc, sold it for £100 on ebay :j

When I was a kid the local tip used to be open so you could have a rummage as you were dropping stuff off. Remember finding a hockey stick I used for school. Shame it's manned these days with 10 foot drop containers to chuck your stuff in. I'd probably be down there every day!

stormchaos

jasmineswhiskers wrote: »

When I was a kid the local tip used to be open so you could have a rummage as you were dropping stuff off. Remember finding a hockey stick I used for school. Shame it's manned these days with 10 foot drop containers to chuck your stuff in. I'd probably be down there every day!

Our local tip last year used to have a container in which they put anything saleable, i got a 4 pan set of le cruset for £3 and a huge blue le cruset casserole dish out of the scrap skip for £1, but its all been stopped now,
don't know why they won't let you take stuff, surely its recycling ? they could donate the money to a different charity every month, seems a waste to me...

hermum

stormchaos wrote: »

Our local tip last year used to have a container in which they put anything saleable, i got a 4 pan set of le cruset for £3 and a huge blue le cruset casserole dish out of the scrap skip for £1, but its all been stopped now,
don't know why they won't let you take stuff, surely its recycling ? they could donate the money to a different charity every month, seems a waste to me...

Have you asked what they do with the decent stuff? Ours gets sold on from a warehouse, I think that it was put out to tender as it's not the council selling the stuff.

lovinituk

Our local tip has a large area (some of it undercover) where all the decent stuff is on display for sale. Never been in to have a browse to see what the prices are like though.

soolin

I went to view an auction today and they had an item similar to something i bought at a different auction last year. I paid around £18 with buyers premium, the new auction have a valuation of £150 - £200 on the one they are selling.

I have an appointment to have mine valued next week, although I think mine is slightly plainer so I expect it is worth less. I've also got to phone the auctioneer next week after the sale and he will tell me what their one sold for. I also told them about my remaining weapons I have, and they will sell them fo rme as well and the suggested prices are much higher than I aquired them for, so fingers crossed!

I'm nearly a proper Lovejoy :j

Alika_2

I purchased brand new with tags, baby clothes for 50p a outfit/item. Some where big brands like next. Got 4 of them in total, I sold a girls snowsuit for £6.50, next boys tshirt and shorts for a fiver. The rest went from £2-3 each.

Quite a nice profit :beer:

I also purchased some wine goblets and champagne flutes (plastic ones, 4 per pack) up in asda during a clearance, for 20p a pack. So far I've sold 10 packs at £2-3 a time plus postage :eek: I'm putting em on as an auction at 99p starting bid, and people seem to like bidding on em. I do state in the advert they were from asda. I don't state they were clearance though

sushimushi

I have bought some tie racks for 65p and sold them for £2, a knitting bag for 50p and sold for 5 pounds. Not a lot of money, but i love selling things on ebay!

soolin

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.

Rude to quote my own post I know, so apologies!

However my collectable item made £25 in the end and in the past few days had well over 30 watchers. I break out in a cold sweat when I think that it was on Ebid for several weeks at a £1 BIN as at that point I wasn't even sure I would bother listing it on ebay.

The item was effectively free, as it was thrown in on another auction lot which I have already sold for a profit.

kirstycobie

wow, well done soolin!!! anyone got any bargains today at the boot sales???