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Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

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  • Good idea for a thread! We managed to sell some bushes for £50 (and the buyer actually dug them up for us to take away) which saved us the £70 the gardener quoted for removing them-result!
  • Scarletbug wrote: »
    Good idea for a thread! We managed to sell some bushes for £50 (and the buyer actually dug them up for us to take away) which saved us the £70 the gardener quoted for removing them-result!

    so resourceful! I love it! :rotfl:
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  • tain
    tain Posts: 715 Forumite
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    I sold my old Wimpy visor hat + a badge that said 'Mr Wimpy' on ebay for about £10 a few years back.


    Apparently the alternative kids love that kind of thing.
  • leezed wrote: »
    I sold my false teeth, got £20 for them. :D

    I'd have bought them! Great for stimulating childrens writing especially boys. Animal skulls and bones are also great never seen them pick up a pencil quick enough.

    I've sold load of bit and bobs but the best ones seem to be the broken for spare or repair. Most likely because someone else has the expertise to strip it down and sell on or fix it up. Just about to list some more. Going to try a party bag bundle with all the left over bits i have gathered and not used or have left over.
  • JimmyTheWig
    JimmyTheWig Posts: 12,199 Forumite
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    Lets make it clear I am not a business seller
    ...
    One of my better ideas was to buy up a bulk lot of Heston Blumenthal Xmas Puds and they went for twice the price I paid
    If you bought them with the intention of selling at a profit (sounds like you did) then that does make you a business seller, in the eyes of HMRC at least.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,327 Forumite
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    I'm not an e-bayer, but when we moved many years ago I was struggling to get DH to part with anything. The compromise was that I could take stuff to a car boot sale.

    And thus it was that someone paid me 50p for a box of used floorboard nails, some of them bent. (This was in the days when 50p was worth a bit more than it is today.)

    I also sold a hideous, ghastly, cheap and nasty folding door, and a fairly appalling light fitting which had been left in our new home. As the lady who wanted them was admiring them and saying to her companion "look at these, aren't they lovely?" I had to bite my tongue not to say "No, they're hideous, why do you think I'm getting rid of them?"
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  • I love ebay! had an account since 2005 and really done more buying than selling, but decided to have a spring clean in the house last year, made in excess of £300 selling utter crap I would never use again!.

    Caught the bug again after reading this post a few weeks back, a jacket I bought for £21 sold for £56. WIN. not to mention a few more selling <£10, it adds up, only sold 3 recently for a total of £78 for things collecting dust in the loft.
  • I sold on eBay an iPad 1 that had been reversed over by a car (don't ask). This was about 3 years after the iPad had launched, so it wasn't even a current model, but I sold it as 'broken - for parts' and someone paid £50 for it. Amazing!
  • bubbs
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    I bought some cushions once from car boot, i wanted the pads not the covers pad £1 for the 4 , thought oh i will see if i can sell the covers , yep!! they sold for about £8 plus postage:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
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  • Where abouts on ebay does it say how many free auction listings you have left? Thanks in advance.
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