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Whats the most profit you've made?
beachbeth
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I was just wondering what is the most anyone has made from any one item they've sold on Ebay. Also what is your average? I think the most I made was £10 from a dvd boxset. I bought it cheap in a sale from one website and sold it for £10 more on Ebay. On average though Ive only managed a couple of quid per item as I haven't sold that much on Ebay.
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I sold a T68i for £70, it had been gather dust for a year before I decided to sell it :beer:0
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i had a leather football at home, doing nothing, and my local football team were at my local sainsburys signing stuff so me and little miss divadee went down and got the ball signed. i ended up selling it on ebay and got £25 for it :j0
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Had a guy purchase various amplifiers etc to the value of over 500 pounds - account located in the USA wanted to ship to 'friend' in Eastern Europe.
Obviously this was an attempted fraud. Tried to pay via Paypal - I told him to FO, and said Moneybookers, or bidpay only please.
Anyway - to my surprise he paid me via Bidpay - presumably on a stolen card as the original address was also in the USA - but made a mistake and paid me the shipping in dollars instead of £ GBP, so I didnt ship and asked him for the difference.
I received the cheque for the amount paid on the goods and roughly half the shipping and cashed it.
Ebay then NARUd him due to the other sellers he had ripped off through Paypal.
Never heard any more...thanks for the free cash, scammer.
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I sold a signed convention autograph book on Freeserve auctions for about £5 and was very disappointed. However a few weeks later i found ebay and sold a partially signed convention book, identical to the one sold on Freeserve but with two of the signatures from the biggest stars missing for £60!
I can't help but wonder what I would have got for the complete one that I had previously sold if I'd found ebay sooner.
The actual cost to me of these books was nothing as every attendee was allowed to get one book signed each, so I had one for me and one for my son who gave up queing at the end hence it being incomplete.
I don't usually do that well though unfortunately.
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beachbeth wrote:...I bought it cheap in a sale from one website and sold it for £10 more on Ebay...
Not telling my best in case I create my own competition! But as per above, I remember buying the 2 season DVD box sets of "West Wing" whenever it comes on terrestrial tv, then reselling as single season sets. Did this several times making about £25 - £30 each time. Others caught on before long though and the margins became too tight...
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£20 for an unwanted birthday present - how ungrateful am I!!! I have lots of unwanted presents - my friends buy me things, they think I want, not things they know I want... I don't know what kind of impression I must give them :-)0
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We made £247 profit the other day on one item. :j
Very very very pleased .:j :j :j
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That's more like it! I used to make similar profits last year when I was selling tons...£10 profit on something is a bit poor lolJENJEN30X wrote:We made £247 profit the other day on one item. :j
Very very very pleased .:j :j :j
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JPS wrote:That's more like it! I used to make similar profits last year when I was selling tons...£10 profit on something is a bit poor lol
Not if you bought it for £1. That means an increase in value of 10 times. If you made a profit of £247 on something that cost £2470 then your profit margin is only 10%......"Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed." Booker T. Washington
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mcwarre wrote:Not if you bought it for £1. That means an increase in value of 10 times. If you made a profit of £247 on something that cost £2470 then your profit margin is only 10%......
We bought the item for £400 so I think a £247 profit is pretty good. It was also a one off and I doubt very much if we would ever make that much again on one item. It just came down to luck that someone really wanted it.
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