My colleague has just sold his unused 17" Mini Cooper S wheels on ebay as on delivery of the car last week he changed them for 18" Works wheels. There was a bidding frenzy and he has managed to sell them for £870. They can be bought new from a dealer for £920....and the guy is driving from Worcester to pick the wheels up from London...

It defies logic.

 

You can stick any old crap on there, broken or not people will still buy it. Its quite laughable in some ways and tragic in others.

 

Yup

I have been bidding on a few Laptops recently and some people are prepared to pay almost retail money.

 

Nobody wanted the Citadel minatures I found in the loft when I was clearing out though

 

Same recently with Weber 45's - a guy was selling some new boxed units and they ended up going for £510 plus fee plus delivery cost.

At the time rallynuts.com were doing them brand new delivered for £444 (prices have gone up now though)

 

I've seen joinery tool's, sash cramps etc, go for way more than you would pay for new

Although if you're the seller bidding fever is great, my mate has just flogged his old sh!tty brown kitchen extractor for £40 plus costs, when at a local retailer you can get a halfway decent St/St for under £50

 

Yes, but he won the auction.
He will be chuffed because he won
Ebay have made it more appealing to some to buy there as now they dont buy but win
Logic goes out the window when some people are competing with others.

 

Are you STILL looking at putting some prehistoric watering cans on that flippin' Mi16

 

It really does beggar belief... PG's onto something I reckon: people see it as a competition.

I've had quite a few things go mental, and other stuff just hasn't sold well despite me thinking it'd be more popular than a popular thing being very popular. Wierd.

It amazes me what people will bid up things to based on assumptions. Like assuming that something sold for spares or repairs will come with psu, all accessories and a box... The prices people pay for crap is astounding.

Wierd Al Yankovic's Ebay Song is quite a classic:
http://a1583.g.akamai.net/7/1583/943...al/weirdAl.swf

 

I've seen so many things going on there for more than they do new I was searching for Saab bits last week and there's someone on there (suposed to be a Saab specialist ) selling a gearknob for £25 buy it now but they are £14 + vat down the road at the Saab dealer People pay £25 for the original golf gti 16 valve keys but they are only £8 from VW I've seen it with videos too.

 

Clever marketing by e-bay by using the terminology "winner" for a the final purchaser at an auction. "Winning" an auction implies being superior and beating the competition to succeed, rather than buying something you want at a price you were prepared to pay.


Suresh,
Obviously one of life's losers because I have never won an e-bay auction...

 

Wish I had an engine to put some on, its buggered now (stopped last week, now wont even turnover), but to answer you no, think TB's are still the way forward, but that depends if I get fed up of all the engine swapping business, flog the 205 and buy a Scoob

 

I once lost a £5 bet with a mate that you could sell anything on eBay..... I failed to sell an empty Stella bottle as art !

 

You just weren't trying - remember the Tesco bag as a kite one

 

I had a fancy description and a great photo too........... I did see a traffic cone selling for 40p recently though!

 

I've bought a few things from ebay and with a bit of fancy advertising sold it for much more!

The ones I'm most proud of are:

Car kit bought for £20 and sold for £65
Peugeot 306 quad light kit bought for £150, sold for £240
306 badge bought for £1, sold for £6.50
Peugeot badge bought for 50p, sold for £12.50!!!

 

FHM did an article on eBay a while back and managed to sell a bucket of water, and a dead seagull (seperately).

I think they sold a pound coin too, for more than a pound!

I sold a Prodrive gearknob a while back, it was in almost new condition and went for £51 + postage. It only cost £49.95 from the Subaru dealers!! I'm too honest, i emailed the winning bidder 2 days before the end of the auction and told him i'd be happy to end the auction early and sell to him if he wanted. The crazy thing was i put the Subaru part number and RRP in the advert too!

 

 

iv seen a blade of grass for £1 lol

 

I did find an "antique" Dunlop tyre pressure gauge hidden among the "job lots" the other day. I was tempted to buy and re-list somewhere else but couldnt really bo bothered.

 

Every time I have "won" something on ebay I have regretted it pretty soon after. Personally I would never buy anything from ebay now because as has been previously mentioned you can usually get the same thing brand new for less.

It's brilliant for sellers though, I managed to sell an old Pentium 2 IBM thinkpad that didn't even work and was missing a few bits for £92.

 

when i had a r5 gtt i bought a turbo oil feed pipe for £12 Buy it now price. i sold the car a few months later and had not fitted the pipe so i took a couple of pictures and slapped it back on ebay.

the same guy was still flogging the pipes for £12 a go but as mine had a couple of pictures and a semi-decent advert it sold for £26.

so the moral of the story is a decent advert for maximum profit.

 

A girl I work with placed an add with a low start and a buy it now price.

Two idiots were in a bid war and ended up paying nearly double the 'buy it now price'

 

I had one bloke buy my then P800 SE phone for twice what I paid for it. Then when he had won the auction he asked what Special Edition it was. I was non to pleased to say the least. I explained that SE=Sony Ericsson and it was a standard one and can I have my £250 now please Didnt expect to get it, and didnt but the t1t should have asked first and then bit, so I left negative feedback, only issue was he had a 0 to start with, so he prolly just created a new account

 

on the otherhand I have had some decent bargains off ebay (and lost loads of auctions due to retards paying over the odds) :-

1 Pair of serengeti sunglasses (v.cool) £50 v's £160 duty free at Heathrow
2 Creative inspire digital £55 (£180 new)
3 8 in 1 one for all remote £40 (£120 new)

if you hunt around you can get bargains providing said retards don't bid against you !

 

I went to Hong Kong a few months back (Some might remember the thread about buying crap and bringing it back to England to sell on E-bay).

Either way, I bought 8 hello kitty watches for 7 pounds (probably got severely ripped off there! ) and when I came home I put one up on E-bay. Two girls really wanted this watch and they kept bidding and bidding against each other until the winning bid was 17 pounds (The same watch could be had for 5.50 on E-bay at the time as a buy it now). Straight after the auction ended, I sent a second chance offer to the second highest bidder who was at 16 pounds.

Both paid for the watches

 

PM me if this moment of madness persists, I may be interested

 

Shut up you

 

what you after paul??

I have some oddsn sods in the garage

mart