Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

SouthernSoftie

An old lady once gave me a stuffed llama that her daughter had bought back from Peru for my son.
It was about 12inches high and made of real llama:eek:

It had spent a while on a shelf in his bedroom, even the cat was scared of it, so I put it on Ebay and it sold for over £12..... by someone who seemed to be buying anything to do with???

Go on, guess!

Llamas!

tifnstav

i sold a top that i had on ebay - to my own secretary! she'd been searching ebay for it, described it to me and voila! i had it listed. best bit was that i had been given it by my mum to drop off at the sally army clothing bin - nothing ever ends up there!
anyway, my sec gave me a bit more than i was asking for cos i didn't have to post it!
ah, sweet ebay, i love you.

ElisesMummy

My partners boss moved house and threw stuff way in the work skip
He came home with a Louis Vuitton beach bag i sold for £55!

There have been others over the years but cant recall at the moment

ElisesMummy

Oh for a laugh i once sold a couple of photos of my brother, emailled to the highest bidder for 99p! lol

Mobile phone with no charger - £26!

Smi1er

honeywall2008 wrote: »

Pair of shoes that cost me £3.99 (got them home and changed my mind!)

You Female by any chance:rotfl:

strumpet

I bought a set of 4 books on Ebay, that I used to love at primary school (1970s) for £8.70
Having spent a happy Saturday afternoon re-reading them and revisiting my childhood, I resold them on Ebay but listed them separately.
I got a total of £28.40 for them!

Profit: £19.70

I love Ebay!!!

Strumpet

redneckron

I bought a couple of plates from a charity shop,asked the assistant to wrap them, she wrapped them in a knitting pattern and included the packet.I sold the pattern for £2.99.

Wings_of_Ambition

redneckron wrote: »

I bought a couple of plates from a charity shop,asked the assistant to wrap them, she wrapped them in a knitting pattern and included the packet.I sold the pattern for £2.99.

Nice touch. I might ask charity shops to wrap my purchases in something very expensive from now on

"Oh, could you just wrap those jeans in pure gold please? And weigh them down in the bag with a couple of diamonds"

bewildergirl

1379kim wrote: »

Also, does anyone know why people buy gift vouchers and pay more for them than their value????

I'd like to know the answer to this too.

I used to do a lot of surveys and got paid in Luncheon Vouchers and they often sold for face value and sometimes even more.

I'm just getting ready to list 27 items of jewellery that I have made. :-) Might lob a few of my decent arty photos up too.

strumpet

I can answer the question with regard to Tesco Clubcard vouchers.

Person A has £100 clubcard vouchers. These vouchers worth £100 cash OR £400 in clubcard deals.
Person B pays £250 for £100 vouchers and asks person A to apply for a transferrable deal of their choosing.
Person B has now acquired £400 worth of deals for £250 - profit £150

Person A has now sold £100 vouchers for £250 - profit £150

This only works of the deal is transferrable - not all of them are.

Not sure about other voucher schemes but if there are no clubcard deals you are interested in, you can get more than their face value by selling in this way on ebay.
And a family of 4 somewhere, gets a family day out at Alton Towers for example on the cheap!

Strumpet