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Whats the most profit you've made?

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  • Bought a set of old U2 fanclub magazines from a car boot sale for 50p. Sold to a U2 nut for £90!
  • Fibabe
    Fibabe Posts: 520 Forumite
    Well done Smudge!

    I made £180 on mine and my husbands mobile phones. We got them for free on our contracts, used them for a year, then sold them for £90 each!
  • kit
    kit Posts: 1,678 Forumite
    I bought a golly wog at a local auction for £15, sold it on ebay for £72.
    Sold a broken mobile phone for £62 ish when it cost me nothing to upgrade to it in the first place.

    Not made much on anything else tho - well apart from currently selling mud for £100 with 8 days left to go!
    2012 wins approx £11,000 including 5k to spend on a holiday :j
  • amanda40
    amanda40 Posts: 1,218 Forumite
    bought some lego sets at boots for £13 - sold them for £32 - - told all mse's first but no one bought them so tried them on ebay. I have just really started but am surprised at how quick every thing is going!
    No Longer addicted to Boots! - Well not today anyway!! :blushing:

    Officially Mortgage free 31/07/2017 , 12 years early :j
  • Mandles
    Mandles Posts: 4,121 Forumite
    My best was an old playstation game. I bought it for £20 as i was rare & re packaged it in new cases & re listed it . It went for £99 (usually go fro £37). I felt so bad though i threw in another game. But that was not bad, made £80 on a ps1 game!!!
  • Mandles
    Mandles Posts: 4,121 Forumite
    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.
    Can i go shopping with you next time you go to a charity shop?!!
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