Sorry....but I just have to gloat

ormus

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=65357

of course some of us are only playing at it!

colin79666

black-saturn wrote:

I have the biggest gloat. I bought a 1st edition of Casino Royale in a charity shop for 10p and sold it for £3,600 :eek:

I hope you at least made a donation to the charity shop...

Nice though

ormus

Avoriaz wrote:

On the way home I had arranged to collect some ebay purchases. I collected 10 items from one seller in Reigate. Over £300 worth of stuff for £62. We had a lovely Thai meal in Reigate and then I collected another two items in Leatherhead.

One of the good days.

next time youre in reigate, call at the oxfam, dedicated book shop.
you may find some first editions!

frivolous_fay

ormus wrote:

next time youre in reigate, call at the oxfam, dedicated book shop.
you may find some first editions!

The Oxfam bookshop in St Albans is quite expensive - they have a lockable cabinet and crazy prices for 1st editions - honestly, a 1st edition copy of the latest Pratchett or Harry Potter book is NOT a rarity! They also list all the 'rare' stuff on abebooks. Personally I think they're deluding themselves...

shaz77_2

Interesting moral debate that was interwoven in the overall fabric of the topic.

I am of two minds on this issue, the op didn't intend to buy something cheap in the charity shop and sell it on at a profit it was just the way it turned out.

I would say that it is good that people still use charity shops to buy items from although I would not endorse people who purposely went out of their way to buy things cheap at the charity shop just to sell it on for a good profit.

ormus

there was an interesting story about all this some 10 yrs ago.
a lady bought a glass bowl for £5 from a weybridge charity shop (oxfam?).
when she got it home and checked it was marked with a makers name.
so she did some research, then phoned the charity shop to ask if it had been priced up correctly?
the CS lady assured her that it was the right price.

i think the end result was that the lady sold the Lalique glass bowl at auction for a great deal of money.

kriss_boy

jasmineswhiskers wrote:

Touchy subject maybe but I was wondering what's the most anyone has made from buying an item at a charity shop and selling it on Ebay?

Its easy peasy to make lots of money from charity shops, if I didnt work 9 till 5 Id be in the places myself!!

Based on people I no, and considering most things only cost a couple of quid, its easy to regularly pick things up n make £20/30 on... and occasionally as much as £70/80.

My best ever profit on ebay was buying something for about £1450 if I remember correctly.. then selling it 10 days later for 3.6K or 3.7K. It was £2,200 clear profit.

But my biggest loss was around £600 once! So you win sum n lose some but its all part of the learning process!!

Avoriaz

ormus wrote:

.a lady bought a glass bowl for £5 from a weybridge charity shop (oxfam?). .the CS lady assured her that it was the right price…i think the end result was that the lady sold the Lalique glass bowl at auction for a great deal of money.

I live in Weybridge and that is my local charity shop. I wish I had spotted that bowl.

10 years ago Oxfam charity shops were still being run on a very amateurish basis with volunteer staff, most of whom would not have much idea how to recognise or value Lalique or other valuable items.

Since then they have considerably modernised and are far more professional and it is becoming increasingly unlikely that such bargains will be available. A few items will probably still slip through the net.

Incidentally, when we moved to Weybridge in 1985 it was full of expensive ladies dress shops. 22 years on it is now full of charity shops.

goggins1977

30111987 wrote:

I hope you at least made a donation to the charity shop...

Nice though

Did they not make a dontaion to the charity shop when they bought the item in the 1st place ?????

shaz77_2

Goggins

I agree if you make a big profit from a charity shop its only fair to make a donation back to the shop again.