Your least expected loss / gain on eBay?

Box of wispas i sold for £80 i got for free from work

Sold a car i bought for £250 and got £1711 for it

losses

by x used my ebay to sell some books she got less for them than the postage was (silly mare)
 
a t shirt for £85 , i was expecting £30 at the most and would have been happy with the 20 i had paid for it !

weird sale that one... even weirder was that it got to australia and to the guys house in 3/4 days for about 7quid

he left some of the best feedback ive ever had too. madness
 
My father in law gave me some items of Railwayana a few years ago and I sold 3 engine shed plates on eBay. They made about £300. Not bad for 3 chunks of rusty old metal lol.
I've got another 3 in a sack somewhere...:D
 
sold an ati 5770 for £120 last week :D a lot of people kept asking for £75 including postage.

My dad bought a snap on bike jacket for £50 and its worth £200+ !
 
Bought a book back in 1996 for circa £25 from a bookshop. I didnt realise how rare it was when I sold it a few weeks back for £421... About a 1600% profit :)
 
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I admit to exploiting the Christmas toy "must have" a few times.

Best ever gain was buying laser eye surgery though. Saved half price.
 
I picked up an arabic coffee table with an inscribed copper top, rather dirty, from a local house clearance place for £12. Cleaned it up and sold it on Ebay for £34 as I recall.
 
Is ebay still worth it now by the time they get thier fees/final listing % and then paypal takes a swipe as well.
 
"andy" said:
a t shirt for £85 , i was expecting £30 at the most and would have been happy with the 20 i had paid for it !

weird sale that one... even weirder was that it got to australia and to the guys house in 3/4 days for about 7quid

he left some of the best feedback ive ever had too. madness
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what t-shirt was it?
 
2 '4 day passes' to the masters tournament in Augusta every year, $130 each to buy or around that mark
first year I put them on the bay they went for $6000

now thats profit

apparently they are the hardest tickets in Sport to get, you have to be a patron, and a guy I work with is, i sold them for him and he gave me half, not bad
 
Does getting your leg over with the sister of a local(ish) lady seller you went to pick up an item from in person count as an unexpected gain? :D
 
Was feeling nostalgic and bought one of the classic PowerBooks from the States for £150 (avoided import duty too), got bored of it after a few weeks and sold it for £300 on eBay :)
 
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