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What do you buy / sell on eBay?
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What do you all frequently buy and sell on eBay?
I've only ever made a few purchases - CDs from years ago that would be really expensive to get hold of in the shops; and two feather boas to decorate my metal headboard with!
Once I get my new laptop (will be so much faster and easy to use that this old PC!) I'm going to go selling mad with old books, CDs and videos, methinks.
Just wondered what everyone else used eBay for... :chin:
I've only ever made a few purchases - CDs from years ago that would be really expensive to get hold of in the shops; and two feather boas to decorate my metal headboard with!
Once I get my new laptop (will be so much faster and easy to use that this old PC!) I'm going to go selling mad with old books, CDs and videos, methinks.
Just wondered what everyone else used eBay for... :chin:
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I've never used Ebay.
Do you know them plastic Northern fivers we have, they sell for more than a fiver I hear because there's so little in circulation and people want to collect them.
I used to buy lots of random shit on it though.
A thread for spam! Hahaha.
ditto...
Never used it and frankly don't want to either...
How do you sell a car? Do you limit it to people only in your town or what?
Nah you put them in an envelope and send it to them
With cars its tricky because people often like too see the goods on offer and take it for a spin also, I have known of people to have there car stolen in this way, i.e you give someone the address of where the car will be for a test drive etc and you wake up and your car is not there in the morning.
Why would you tell them where you live?
I've thought about selling my guitar on ebay. But that would cost a fortune just to ship so it will just sit in the back of the spare rooms closet collecting dust...
Unless your an established seller you cant make much on eBay nowadays
Just list it and give any potential bidders the opportunity to come and inspect it. Only ever had a couple of people bother.
No test drives unless they leave me with the asking price for the vehicle in cash, and a certificate of insurance.
Never had a problem
But the buyer pays for the shipping. Or you can limit it to a pick-up only auction where someone realitivly local will come pick it up from you.
I have used eBay to buy/sell various stuff. My latest purchase was a PSP gig pack with two games that cost me over £125 less than high street prices.
I think if you can spot the scammers and know what your looking for and be prepared to lose out on some buys and play it cool to the last minute there are some bargains to be made and profit to pocket.
I like the idea of an eBay thread. :yes:
sell - clothes and the odd bit of horse riding gear
Horse riding stuff was dirt cheap about two years ago but unfortunately ebay took off in a huge way so people have realised they can make good prices on the gear they sell so it's not as cheap anymore.
Business wise - memorabilia / ephemera really. Don't do too bad a business out of it but then we do it in real life for jobs anyway so we know what we're selling and how to describe/price it.
Autograph wise you have to be really careful as a really large percentage are fake so our autograph market has gone downhill as nobody trusts you anymore due to the conartists :grump:
ive also bought a couple pairs of jeans from an online shop :yes: and when i was going through my 'lord of the rings obesssion' (
as for my stepdad. my god, he buys a load of junk on ebay!! well.. when i say junk, i mean stuff that he is never ever going to use, so is completely useless!!
like, the other day he bought himself software for the computer, which enables you to look out of your microscope without actually having to look through it. . . we dont even have a microscope :chin: so why he got it i dont know!
And best of all - My Prom Dress!