Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

purplestar1uk

I sold a broken mobile phone for £40, and a broken mp3 player for £27. Both times I was very very clear that they were faulty and didn't work, but I guess some people know better than me how to fix these things!

OliveOyl_2

I sold a Guinness Harmonica, that I got free, for £3.70 :rotfl:
Someone even asked what key it played in! OH suggested Chubb

heppy23

One of my godfathers died in 1983. Due to a shortfall in his estate I wasn't left as much money as he had wanted me to be left. However I was given a box of old London tube maps from the 1920s through to the 70s.

I hoarded them for a while as I like maps.

I cam across them a few years ago and decided to get rid. I contact a few map dealers and they all said "very specialised, not interested".

So I picked one out at random, scanned boths sides and put it on ebay. For a laugh I put it on a buy it now of £20. It sold within about 10 minutes.

The next one I put with a start of £1, no reserve, leave it running for 10 days.
It went for about £80!

I worked my way through and sold most of them. They all went for at least £20, some went for over £100!

Most were bought by one guy, I emailed him and asked him if he wanted me to make a list and he could make me an offer for what I had. He said no, he liked the thrill of bidding on ebay. Can't argue with that!!

tsharp

I was about to take the bins out the other day when I discovered an old Boots make up bag. My wife had thrown it away because 'it was free'. So I put it on ebay, and was told no one would buy it because it was junk etc.

It went for £3.49 incl p&p - with about £1.50 of it profit. Would you throw £1.50 in the bin?

lilian1977

Sold 5 Dr Who DVDs (the cardboard free-with-The-Sun ones) that I bought for £1.99 on Ebay (only wanted 1 of the episodes so kept that) for £1 each the other day!

So, advice there is whenever there's a free DVD of anything that isn't something rubbish (and you can make up your own minds on that ) is buy several copies, keep them a few months, then flog 'em!

purplestar1uk

I have a friend who got a few quid for a half-eaten pot noodle. But only after he'd forked out for a half-eaten bag of crisps.

purplestar1uk

Did I break the thread?!

angeldiva

purplestar1uk wrote: »

Did I break the thread?!

lol no but sometimes threads move so fast on here, blink twice and they are gone...

now who on earth buys half eaten things??? YUCK

halloweenqueen_2

Anyone sold anything much lately on ebay - apparently business is booming there!

barshamhillbilly

I sold an old generator ......twice! The first person paid and didn't collect it !