Sorry....but I just have to gloat

kriss_boy

I think I can guess what you bought n sold :P

I'll join the gloat fest too.

Saw an item on at 99p which was worth £300. He/she was local so I thought with any luck they might only think its worth £100.

She replied and i collected it within an hour for... £14.

My mum says she doesnt know how i can sleep at night.

Snooze_Control

kriss_boy wrote: »

I think I can guess what you bought n sold :P

Feel free to fire away with what you reckon it is Kriss lad!

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kriss_boy

Well.. I immediately thought it may be relating to musical instruments.. but I doubt you could sell 10 of something worth £400 to musicians in this country.

So i then thought perhaps its to do with cars... ie tom toms or possibly those cool tv screens for cars?

I bet theres decent money in importing them, theres definately a massive healthy market for styling cars.

Snooze_Control

No, you're way off Kriss. It isn't a "consumer product". Only high profile businesses and individuals involved in the business it's used in would be interested in it.



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kriss_boy

In that case its.... a..... office equipment!!!! erm...

Snooze_Control

kriss_boy wrote: »

In that case its.... a..... office equipment!!!! erm...

Nope. It's nothing like that. It's very specialised and (like I said above) if you're not involved in the particular industry, you'll never see it or hear of it in your entire life, let alone possibly guess what it could be.

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kriss_boy

Oh well good luck!

I steer clear of expensive stuff these days, yea the profits are bigger but i cant afford to have 5K tied up and in limbo for a few weeks etc. I wouldnt sleep at night!!

tryna geta deposite for a house at the mo.

rls1973

one of my first ever sales was a really dodgy, eighties-bleachblue-wash mans denim shirt. put it on auction at 99p, not expecting anything. okay, it was levi's but not one of the nice styles iykwim.
it was not attractive. it was a shirt that alan partridge would wear on his day off.:D

i dont know how much it cost me because it was just in a bundle of second-hand stuff so it would have been literally pennies.
i described it as vintage 1980's, put a good photo on, etc. so i was honest. it ended up going for over £18!:eek:

the moral of this story: however carp your item, if two men get into a bidding war, there is no end to what they will pay just so they don't lose out to another man (affront to his masculinity etc etc):rotfl:

sent it off and was really nervous, half expected a complaint or a neg tbh, but no, it was fine.

another thing was, scooped a load of mcdonalds toys, used and abused by the kids and from under the sofa etc., was going to bin them but thought i 'd try ebay. put them in batches of 4 or so, and they sold as well.
ok so they only sold for £2 but still!


to counter that though, there have been loads of things that i felt sure would make me a fortune but no-one else agreed with me:D

there's no logic to ebay it seems!

rls1973

soba wrote: »

A couple of years ago there was a pull-out section in our local (Stoke) newspaper about Robbie William's 30th birthday. I think it was about 12 pages, and had interview with friends and family. I bought the newspaper for 30p and stuck the pull-out on ebay not expecting much from it. It sold for £56 to a girl from Germany:eek:. She said she'd pay cash and after a couple of weeks of non payment we thought she might have realised how much she'd paid and what she was getting for her money. Eventually we got an envelope containg £60 from her. She must have been mad:rotfl:

:rotfl:

i wonder if that was the same nutter in germany who jumped on his back when he was onstage!!:D

re: buying things from charity shops in posh areas, i've tried this (i had to travel!) and i've found that their prices have rocketed from a few years ago, and if anything has a 'good label' in it, the price is raised accordingly again. so i feel that, anyone who feels guilty for buying from charity to sell on ebay, don't feel bad because they are also 'in on it' and the charity benefits too, so imo 'everyone's happy'.

It Begins With O

the charity shop nearer home , though, is different story: i don't actually take anything to them any more (i go a bit further and use another one where they're nice!) because they seem not to want donations, heavy sighing and tutting etc. one time, the lady said to me 'it's not all your old rubbish is it?' nice!
as i pointed out to her, i actually had another bag in the car which WAS rubbish and i was going to the tip next, so i offered to take the donation to the tip for her if she liked.
"tut-tut, sigh....no, it's ok, we'll manage i suppose"

another time my dad took a donation, got the same treatment, so he said 'right, i'll have it back then, bye!' and drove off with it. (he's officially a grumpy old man so he can get away with anything nowadays :rotfl: )



just a sneaky advert: SCOPE are the best charity shop, they are always friendly and says thanks, i also like them because they are the CP charity shop which is related to the one i mention in my signature.:)

kriss_boy

I noticed those techny colour t-shirts sell ok.. the ones that change colour when they heat up!