Best ebay items youve bought?

HelenDaveKids

Whats your best buys?

Mine was £2.70 for electric tile cutter and 99p for 7 1930's 4 panel doors. Both collected locally.

swimsink

I find things you collect locally tend to sell for much less because obviously the target market is a lot smaller! I bought a mama's & papa's pliko pramette pram, with matching carseat, cosey toes etc for spare at grandparents house for about £16 and she delivered for me as I don't drive.

Used as a stroller for about a year then sold on through free ads for about £75...!

RHemmings

Mine was to buy a 27 year old guitar. When it arrived and I opened the case it was new. Not a scratch on it, not any sign of wear. I was gobsmacked. It wasn't a financial bargain, but I'm very pleased with it.

JPS29

Cast iron bath with mixer taps, local collection 99p. put in one of my rental properties. Used the taps of the old bath that was in there, sold the ones off the ebay bath with the mixer and shower head for £50 on ebay, have just refurbed the house 3 yrs later and weighed the cast iron bath in and got another £17.20 for it :-)

Hermia

A rare folk CD that was on BIN for a few quid, but was worth about £25ish. The seller even sent a free live CD with it which was even rarer! He said he was clearing out a relative's house and couldn't imagine anyone would want to buy the CD. I got the impression that he viewed all genres of music he didn't like as being rubbish and therefore worthless.

olias

Bought a set of taps, BNIB, RRP of £149. I checked and they usually sell at retail outlets for about £119. I paid £9 inc p&p!:j

Also bought a BNWT snowboarding jacket that retails at £250 for £35 - seller had bought it in the states for their son, but when they got back to the UK, it didn't fit him so they couldn't really take it back!

Olias

ThinkingOfLinking

2nd row ticket to see Elvis Costello...only £5 over face value...and when I got to the venue, I was allowed to sit in the front row because there were vacant photographers' seats after the first three songs (they're only allowed in for those first ones).

Crowqueen

Too many to count. I don't go for cost over value to me, but some of the Soviet Baltic memorabilia and the perestroika-era genuine Soviet poster (not a reprint) I bought must go towards being the best.

The Latvian stamps printed on old maps which I swapped with someone else bidding on the item for some other stamps were also fun - that was back when eBay was the Wild West (or Wild East in my case) and you could still see who was bidding on what. Although as a consumer I don't miss those days, it's only recently that the standard of merchandise in those categories has risen again as the economy improves and people have the disposable income again to justify listing stuff.

Crowqueen

Hermia wrote: »

A rare folk CD that was on BIN for a few quid, but was worth about £25ish. The seller even sent a free live CD with it which was even rarer! He said he was clearing out a relative's house and couldn't imagine anyone would want to buy the CD. I got the impression that he viewed all genres of music he didn't like as being rubbish and therefore worthless.

At Christmas I found a Lithuanian seller selling folk stuff you can only get in that country. Even though I went there again in the spring and brought back a suitcase full of their tacky eurotrash stuff that no-one over here will ever hear of, I still have that guy bookmarked on eBay as he sells the CDs for about £5 + postage and that's a real bargain.

Rolandtheroadie

A 1999 GSX1300R Hayabusa for £2100.
Had it a year, it got written off and I got £3k back.

montydick

speed stacks for my kids they love them