Your least expected loss / gain on eBay?

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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This isn't about intentionally selling at mark-up or buying/selling like shares, but I'm aiming this at casual eBayers who sell something. Then they get a surprisingly low sell or high sell for the item that they sold. I'm hoping this will get some interesting replies :-)

My least expected gain was buying Final Fantasy 7 from my old work for £5. I played it to death in 2001, stuck it on the 'Bay last year and it fetched £30 O.o. Similar story with FF8.

My least expected loss was me buying the Advent Children DVD (again Final Fantasy) for £19.99 in 2006. Two years later, it only fetched 99p on the 'Bay.
 
Biggest gain was a little black velour draw string bag to put my camera in. Bagged it for a penny and it cost three Euros to post from China as it had the import tag attached when I got it! :D

Also bought a 55DSL Snowboard jacket for a tenner. Was over £300 new and barely worn.

I sold a 7600GT a couple of years ago. AGP version and I wacthed in glee as there was some kind of mental bidding frenzy between two people. Went in the end for £57.00. :cool:
 
Prince tickets, bought for £70 each, sold for £200 each. Similarly with Barbara Streisand, bought for £150 each, sold for £350 each.

I was at uni, I needed money, don't hate me :p.
 
Office 2007 Pro, won in a raffle at an IT event (going back to when it was just released) and sold for £250 on the bay. Even better was the fact it took them so long to send me the raffle prize that i complained and received another copy a few days after the first so contacted the guy who bought the first one on ebay and he bought the next one off me too!
 
Back in around 2004, I bought a load of B Grade Medion PDAs with GPS receivers for around £80 each. Bunged them on ebay (knowing they were worth more than £80) and got an average for around £220 a pop :D
 
ahh wait, another thing.

My dad was getting some work done at his house which involved a new conservatory. He was looking at quotes for getting it taken down and disposed of. I suggested ebaying it.. so I did. Took photos and measurements of everything, put it up stating that the buyer has to sort taking it down and transporting it - it sold for £650.

Fees aside, I didn't see a penny of that. Still a bit bitter about it.
 
A Renault Clio Sport, won it for about £3000 under its actual value, sold it for £3500 profit. :p

Didn't expect the guy to honour the deal, but he did!
 
Sold my gen 1 Mac Mini (non-intel version) at the beginning of last year ... got about £100 more for it than I was expecting. Was very clear in the advert what version it was and the buyer seemed very happy with their purchase.

Also sold my AppleTV about the same time, (wasn't being used), and got £40 more than I expected.
 
purchased 30 bottles of piz buin sun tan lotion one xmas from tesco for 1p each and waited until may and sold each one for £10,this was about 5 years ago now.

sold a pair of surround speaker stands for 99p once which cost me £50 2 years earlier,that will teach me to put a listing on a 3am in the morning :D
 
i bought a geforce2mx 64bit? i put it on ebay a month later as i didnt need it so much and it sold for double what i paid.
is ebay still crazy like this ? ive got some junk i should get rid of but all i hear is paypal horror stories :/
 
no ebay is not like that, you might have just got lucky... and I have never had a problem with paypal in 9 years :P and thats with 250+ feedback
 
Nice answers. Keep 'em coming!

Another couple of sells that I can remember:

1. A Shuttle chassis from 2006, one of the first boards with an LGA775 socket. I advertised it as *damaged* as the socket had bent pins. I sold it about a year ago for £70 and the buyer gave me good feedback.

2. Another Shuttle, this time a full system, with P4 2.8 GHz hyperthreaded CPU, 1 GB DDR2, Geforce 6800, Soundblaster Live! 1024, 80GB Seagate HD and DVD burner. Full working system, loaded with Win XP Pro, activated with license, COA sticker and all discs included. Again, I got £70 for this and good feedback.

Does plain stupid come into mind?
 
Se7ven said:
no ebay is not like that, you might have just got lucky... and I have never had a problem with paypal in 9 years :P and thats with 250+ feedback
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i sold more items and made silly profit too and it was in the days before paypal was used a lot so i requested cheque/postal order and never a problem.
 
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