Has anyone actually bought a real bargain on ebay?

Okydoky25

I bought a brand new still cellophane armchair for £3, I gave them £20 on collection and was still a bargain as prob worth £250+ and sold it last year for £50!

preable

I brought a faulty apple macbook pro for £22.99 and it was only a miner fault that i fixed my self hahaha i still have it xD Ive also brought new dvds for £1.99 like frozen planet and resold it for £15

withabix

£700 Brother laser printer for £70 delivered. Brand new, direct from Brother themselves.

I used to buy new Xerox A3 inkjet printers for £100 from an easily-found website and sell them on for £400 each back in the QXL days!! I bought and sold over 50 of them!

My best bargain to date was not from Ebay but from Amazon - a misprice - I got an £800 KitchenAid stand mixer for 1p plus £7.19 delivery!!

sallypalma

a few Ebay bargains. I bought a Deco watch that was described as "old with paste jewels and some writing on the inside", I love vintage watches and liked the shape so I happily payed £24 for it. When it arrived and I checked it I realised it was Platinum with over a carats of diamonds, worth over £1000, what I find amazing is the seller was a Business seller and jeweller who had loads of listings. I bought a Vintage Dior coat for £14 (it was described as "old" lol) and sold it to a Specialist Vintage retailer for £425 (I wanted to keep it but it did not fit). Some of the best bargains I have had may not have been of a large monetary value for rather something I was desperately looking for such as a certain My Little Pony for my 25 year old daughter !

CrazyRatLady_2

sallypalma wrote: »

a few Ebay bargains. I bought a Deco watch that was described as "old with paste jewels and some writing on the inside", I love vintage watches and liked the shape so I happily payed £24 for it. When it arrived and I checked it I realised it was Platinum with over a carats of diamonds, worth over £1000, what I find amazing is the seller was a Business seller and jeweller who had loads of listings. I bought a Vintage Dior coat for £14 (it was described as "old" lol) and sold it to a Specialist Vintage retailer for £425 (I wanted to keep it but it did not fit). Some of the best bargains I have had may not have been of a large monetary value for rather something I was desperately looking for such as a certain My Little Pony for my 25 year old daughter !

Seems like people in various industries still miss things at times. Not on ebay but a customer at my work bought an old house some years ago and found a necklace in the loft - a jeweller told them it was a couple of hundred years old and made of paste, maybe worth £100 or so. In the end turned out it was from the court of versailles or something like that and sold for £220k!

melliott1963

My best bargain was a toy for my son who, at the time was Yu-Gi-Oh! mad. This particular item was quite hard to find, and tended to go for around the £50 - £70 mark. Managed to find a seller who could spell "Yu-Gi-Oh!". Consequently hardly anyone else bid on it and I got it for only £8.

CrazyAngel_3

Not an eBay bargain, but my aunt found small trinket box at a car boot sale tossed in a box with a load of other junk, that had old coins stuck to the side. The coins said '1901', so she bought it for 20p.

She then had it valued to find that it was Faberge! It sold at Christies a few months later for £6000.00 !

If only I could find something like that.

markwilkinson

Bought lots of stuff on eBay but never had a real bargain.

Conversely, I've sold lots of tat for silly money on the site. Only ever had 2 disputes as a seller too, one of them EBay found in my favour, eventually and the second was my fault - I sold a crystal glass vase as in perfect condition. It wasn't, it had a tiny chip around the rim. I sold it to a collector who was clearly better at spotting these things than me. No worries, refunded etc and all was fine.

For whatever reason(s) I think Ebay has become more expensive for second hand, desirable and luxury items.

lulu650

I find it strange that people sell jewellery/watches with "little marks I can't read" on. Couldn't they just buy a cheap jeweller's lupe? I can only presume they think it spells "made in China" and can't be arsed to find out with any certainty what exactly they've listed.

Not that I'm complaining though.....;)

Crowqueen

For whatever reason(s) I think Ebay has become more expensive for second hand, desirable and luxury items.

The buyer traffic means that things will generally find a price approaching market value. eBay is not meant to be a bargain site - it's meant to be a selling/buying site. Collectors normally use it as a good indicator of what something's true value is.