Selling (Stuff)

Eurobiker330

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Hi folks, Just a thought, prior to bed because my small brain has just been frazzled negotiating a sale.
£100 and ma w head is nipping.
I sell a few things and buy a few things to sell. I`m not a bad person, just trying to not touch the pension.
I just finalised a sale with a fellow Scotsman.
He offered more today even though a month ago he was haggling for less!
Bizzarre.
I told him he can get it for the lesser price but he had to organise carriage.
Anyway sold. Money paid into PayPal.
Moral of this story.
Nowt stranger than folk. G
 
i sold a floor nailer on ebay , went for £220 plus postage . it was in the screwfix catalogue at the time for £ 210 . strange people ,some people
 
Bizarre. The locker doors I just changed on the van. I got the last in stock in the country I could find. Next dat price doubled and on ebay was just rubbish. Wifes happy (for now) I am but yeah people buy things not knowing the price. G
 
I sold my broken habitation water pump from the MH - broken mind - for £25 on Fleabay! New ones are £50!


I bought a second hand Video to DVD copying machine on Ebay for £55 so that I could transfer all our old VHS onto DVD.

I did the copying then put it back on Ebay and sold the machine for....














...£120!

...to a bloke in Spain

..who also paid an extra £30 for the carriage!

As you say, nowt as queer as folk!

Graham
 
I bought a 1967 series 2 LWB Safari Land rover on eBay a few years ago for £900 it had been fitted with a truly horrid Perkins diesel engine which leaked quite a lot. The brakes (or breaks for those that only speak eBay) and steering were typical Land rover, - apply wait for a reaction correct steering then brake harder!

I used it for 6 months to tow a car transporter trailer before deciding to part with it.
I would have been happy to get my money back but in the end it went for £3900!
Two bidders really wanted it!
 
That's great news if you can get 2 bidders into a bidding war.

For a year or two myself and a mate did some Ebay'ing and auctioning just for fun really. The money was very useful too. We would go on-line and check auction lots; go to auction houses on their viewing days; check the items quality, condition etc; then research the items to see what we thought we could get for them; price it up with our maximum bids; then go to the auctions and bid. Our winnings would then be put on Ebay to re-sell.

We sold around 10k of goods in one full year and with a cost price of around 2k I'd say!

A number of times we would buy mixed lots - plated silverware, flatware etc - take out the 'good' stuff and rebox the tat and put it back into auction. On numerous occasions we would get more for the tat than we paid for the whole lot!!

Silverplate was fun: researching the hallmarks; cleaning and plate restoring; then reselling. A good hobby.

We stopped when I moved to west Wales but by then it was getting harder as more people had moved in on the action. The lots became prohibitive in terms of price. My mate still does it but now specialises in high end china figures (dogs, etc)

We had some great successes:

- Collectors plates (cats, dogs, flowers etc) could be bought for around £1 each and at the top end sold for £10 each!

- Old clocks: £10 lot for 13 of them. Sold for £130 including ones that were broken!

- Sports memorabilia always went well. (for example signed cricket bats cost £10 sold for around £40 each)

I shipped stuff to Russia, the USA, Australia and right across Europe! Customers always paid the postage charges too.

Good fun

Graham
 
CriftinsCampers said:
I bought a 1967 series 2 LWB Safari Land rover on eBay a few years ago for £900 it had been fitted with a truly horrid Perkins diesel engine which leaked quite a lot. The brakes (or breaks for those that only speak eBay) and steering were typical Land rover, - apply wait for a reaction correct steering then brake harder!

I used it for 6 months to tow a car transporter trailer before deciding to part with it.
I would have been happy to get my money back but in the end it went for £3900!
Two bidders really wanted it!
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We had one too ( because I always wanted a landy) and we towed a caravan with it. I soon realised why owners wear waxed cotton jackets, I think we would have been drier without a roof. Cyclists passed us when going up hills, it would go up anything, but speed was an alien concept, fortunately that gave time to plan the next steering adventure-------------------------------------------we gave the damn thing away in the end
 
It is a parallel universe, no doubt.

I’ve just bought an iMac for £266 which is in as new condition and complete with all the original packing, disks, keyboard and mouse. Today I saw this. 0D9181CA-418A-4967-8006-1140AD8A5DCF.jpeg

Mad innit?

Cheers

H
 
GMJ said:
I sold my broken habitation water pump from the MH - broken mind - for £25 on Fleabay! New ones are £50!


I bought a second hand Video to DVD copying machine on Ebay for £55 so that I could transfer all our old VHS onto DVD.

I did the copying then put it back on Ebay and sold the machine for....














...£120!

...to a bloke in Spain

..who also paid an extra £30 for the carriage!

As you say, nowt as queer as folk!

Graham
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You can do that on a linux pc with a £15 converter and leads.
 
trevskoda said:
You can do that on a linux pc with a £15 converter and leads.
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I have recently replaced my Habitation water pump on my van as it seemed to be running at lower pressure than normal , the new one works very well, so do folk actually buy pumps that are working but not at full pressure ? it seems mad to me, I still have the old pump, I dismantled it to see how it works and reassembled it and ran it but nothing had changed .
 
trevskoda said:
You can do that on a linux pc with a £15 converter and leads.
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You can maybe but as I literally have no idea what you are on about I most definitely couldn't :D

Graham
 
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