Whats the most profit you've made?

wendiewoo

Our poundland sold pop up kites for 1.00 and i put three on ebay with pictures and description, sold the first for 15.00..the second for 12.00 the third for 25.00 and all were happy with products mmmmmm was a nice sell!!!

mrwibble

From a few years ago - I bought an old-looking brass travelling compass from a back-street auction for £1 - got it valued at a top auction house and it was 18th C and sold it for £250

Others more recently include IBM Thinkpad accessories bought in packs of 5 for £5 from an auction and sold for £20 each on EBay - the best bargains are usually the ones people overlook e.g. a pallet of 270 Panasonic Toughbook laptops - £120 - screens ripped out but included were many CD-ROMs and spares - sold over a few months for £1200 - only downside is garage space !

snaveuk

Wow, that's some good profits being made! :T

I've never been so fortunate, however my dad once found a set of pots and saucepans by a recycling bin while dropping off some bottles. Turns out they were a very decent make, and ended up selling them for £80!

Now I think of it, that's what got me into ebay in the first place :cool:

Dan

black-saturn

Well I bought a first edition James Bond book from a charity shop for 10p and sold it for £3,200 !!!

The Beatles original LP bought for £2 and sold for £267

Set of original Winnie the Pooh illustrations from the original book for £7 and sold for £289.

A really detailed diary that someone had written all through the war in London for 50p and sold for £78.

Faulty (but repairable) laptop for £8 and sold for £99.

bleugh

/me

makes notes and see's what's selling nowadays for a decent return ;-)

princessmoneysaver

Bought a Beatles Vinyl for 20p which sold for £55

bonvonnie

a faulty Sony digicam, which i'd already replaced, and was going to throw away, sold for £70 on ebay

brought myself a Burberry handbag in the sale was originally £370, i got it a the end of the sales for £87, and sold for £125

withabix

I used to sell Xerox C20 A3 colour inkjet printers for £300-£400 on QXL (when it was busy!!!!) which I bought from online RETAILERS for £117.

Minimum £200 profit every time and I couldn't get them delivered to me fast enough to satisfy demand.

The CiyLink driver got used to delivering upto 10 printers to me at a time, the only trouble was the space they took up - the boxes were massive!

The trick was that they were end-of-line, but many websites still sold them for the full retail price of £500+.

I sold nearly 100 of them before stocks ran out.

In the end I managed to get my supplier to deliver direct to my customer without paperwork, which they would post to me. They didn't seem to care as they just wanted to shift the printers!

The printers were actually pretty bad in terms of reliability, however this wasn't a problem as Xerox were doing a 12 month on-site exchange warranty - so each time the printers died, they were collected within 48 hours and swapped for new ones.

Xerox departed from the inkjet market - some of their printers were only rebadged Lexmark machines anyway.

hippypixie

I bought a Monsoon dress in a charity shop for £3.50 and sold it for £46 on Ebay! I also bought a kilt in a charity shop for £1 on their sale rail, and sold it to a guy in NewZealand for £51.

Mark7799

Nothing too spectacular - found an old poster from a 1927 magazine, can't remember how it ended up in my possession but sold it when having a clear out and it went for £16.60