Best ever secondhand buy?

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babydaisy wrote: »

At the car boot last weekend I got the most gorgeous vintage Joseph Ribkoff black diamante top - wore it to the pub this evening and everyone commented on fab it is. Cost me a cool £2!

Ooh, I love Joseph Ribkoff! I got a fabulous Joseph Ribkoff 80s-style jumpsuit in a charity shop for £1. I've also bought my son a Ripcurl shirt and a Crombie coat (which needed a couple of minor repairs) from the same shop, also £1 each.
Other secondhand bargains have included a working CD/ cassette player for 20p, a pile of 1960s Reader's Digest magazines (great fun!) for 1p each, a Wedgwood Clarice Cliff reproduction plate for 10p, a vintage leather bag for 20p which I used a couple of times and later sold on eBay for £42, a nice big livingroom wall unit for £6, and a £25 auction lot described as a "Collection of prints, magazines etc" which included hundreds of pounds worth of original drawings.

alanalea

Wow, i've had loads of gems over the years! I bought 2 gas miners lamps to go in my coach from the bootfare for £2 the pair. I sold them on ebay for £227
2 days ago I bought a brand new pair of 'Mardy' Caterpillar Boots from charity shop for £5 (£94.99 in Schuh)
A black bag full of Next clothes for my daughter from the bootfare- loads still with tags for £1.50

Avoriaz

frivolous_fay wrote: »

How can le creuset get battered? I can see someone getting battered with le creuset... but the other way around?!

Maybe it was batter left over from the Yorkshire Puddings the previous owner had cooked in it.

judyjetson

DH bought five magic books, including Derren Brown's Pure Effect and Absolute Magic, (which sell for around £80-£100 each) for £15 from a book stall, but inside AM there was a crisp £20 note.

I bought an Anya Hindmarch makeup bag for 10p that was originally given away free with Harpers and sold it for £25, but best for me was probably Movie Maker board game, bought at a car boot sale for 25p and sold for £75.

IWasWondering...

2 Oka Beauvais Bedside Tables for £20 each. £185 each direct from Oka.

fridgehead

A blender at a bootfair it belived as broken, i got it for £5 and it worked and sold it for £400 not bad for a days work

ELIZA_D

a parker bought for £12 in a charity shop....wore all winter when i was pregnant and sold on ebay for £270 quid!! did not realise it was a designer one as the label had fallen out.! the buyer was dead pleased as they had theirs stolen and it was their favourite item!!

HP_Guy

judgejaq wrote: »

...inside AM there was a crisp £20 note.

Now, that's magic!



Both great books btw

Lynxette

A Silver Cross fold-up pram! Cost £8 in the car boot, had one of the foot-covering blankets (the zip up ones), rain cover, umbrella, the works. Is a FANTASTIC rpam and checked the price on eBay and the likes when I got home, and it turned out to be a fab buy! Was in Kiddicare a few weeks later and one of the blokes that worked in the warehouse said he hadn't seen one in years because they'd stopped stocking them, because they lasted FOREVER and no one needed any other prams after that!

arthur_dent_2

Seriously, too many to mention, however the latest was a box of 'over 18's' magazines which I bought for £1.12 and then sold on for £130.00