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[Redwing]

What is the most rubbish thing you have ever managed to sell?

 

I have put my terrible, tempremental and barely working sat nav on ebay with an awful write up as to how bad it is and how it doesnt work when you really need it to!

 

The bidding is steadily climbing

 

I have even had a few messages offering me good money for it!

 

I didnt even think it would sell- has the world gone crazy?

 

(no details or link given so as not to get in trouble with the mods)

[Cinnamon]

Brian found a couple of Tiffany style lampshades at the tip once, & brought them home.

 

I gave them a good clean up, listed them & they went to an American buyer for £40, plus shipping....& they were darn heavy too!

[Geoid]

I had a really old, really slow printer, that I got free with a computer, sold it for £1!

[Chucky Mama]

My son sold an apple We tried to think of something silly to see how much we could get for it. We shone it up and photographed it. We gave it a great write up with lots of serving suggestions. We said money would go to charity- (which it did). I think we got £10 for it. We did have to wrap it very well to post it and I have to admit to sending a slightly fresher one to the buyer

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[debbier]

I offered an old edwardian wardrobe to my local charity shop, but when they came to see it, the collectors wouldn't take it as I didn't have the key for it(?). I tried it on ebay and got £40 for it.

[Jillus]

I bought a china decorative bell in the £1 shop (for a pound) and sold it for £3 on Ebay!

[bluekarin]

For my mum I sold a rusty beaten looking Zildjian cymbal that one of her cleaning customers was going to chuck away. She got £75 for it

 

I did see someone was selling a red hairband, but the pic was of a yellow one, so the description said like the picture but in red

 

There was also a really good one a few years ago. A chap was selling his worn out old ladrover and gave it a really bad description with lots of pics. I can't remember what it went for, but it was quite a lot. I didn't delete the item it when it had ended and noticed in his feedback that the winner was disappointed as the car wasn't in a great condition

[PurpleTree]

A few years ago my mum bought a box of junk from a local auction, in it were a box of old golf balls, think it was 6 of them and they were Dunlop. Mum stuck them on Ebay and they made well over £100 . I was still working at the time and was watching how they did, by the end nearly everyone in the office was stood around the computer getting really excited. Couldn't believe it. Abviously someone knew something about them that we didn't.

[LaPoule]

I once bought an old hand-crank sewing machine at a car boot sale for about £10 - I planned to paint it and put it in the garden... Ended up deciding not to put it in the garden after-all, and as it weighed loads, needed to get rid of it. I cannabilised all the little pieces (bobbin holder, etc) and sold them on on ebay for well over £40! They went to Australia!

 

I once also bought two old Singer Featherweights (bit of a sewing machine fetish going on here ) from the free ads for £50 (for both). Sold one of them on Ebay for about £150 + shipping to Australia. The other resides in my collection with my other 9 ( ) machines.

[Aunty e]

I bought a belfast sink from eBay for £1 once, to put in the garden. Never got round to it, and it languished under the stairs for ages, so I put it back on about a year later and got over £20 for it!

[Cinnamon]

Crikey!

Brian picks those up all the time - I have about 8 in the garden, all planted up, at the moment

[PurpleTree]

I've got one in the garden too, it was here when we moved in. Nightmare to move, very heavy

[chickencam]

A couple of broken Nintendo DS's, one had the screen hanging off both sold for £15+ there must be plenty of people out there who mend things and resell them.

[The Dogmother]

Crikey!

Brian picks those up all the time - I have about 8 in the garden, all planted up, at the moment

 

I have one, and love it.... let me know if he finda any more Sarah

[AnnieP]

I have sold a few unwanted things... Best successes were little tiny "Wade Whimsies" which I used to buy with my pocket money when a child. Took ages photographing them all individaully and listing them and raised over £400! I was horrified that anybody would want them!

More recently, after having to clear an area of my garden for a new oil tank, I discovered about 100 roof slates which had been buried for as long as I have lived here (12 years). Was going to take them to the dump, my dad made a throw away comment about somebody wanting them and bingo: Sold for a very nice little sum! I love Ebay!

[Olly]

That's interesting about the sewing machine, as I have an old Singer that I don't want now I've got my mum's old machine, I wonder if it's worth trying to sell it.

 

I'm amazed at what people will pay for Eglus sometimes - when you look at the new price, obviously a second-hand Eglu is nearly as good as new but it starts to approach the point when you might as well go direct to Omlet. People get a bit carried away bidding sometimes.

[LaPoule]

Olly - having told you that I sold mine for profit, I am now going to suggest a site where you can donate hand-rank or treadle machines to be sent to Africa . In my defence, I hadn't heard of this charity at the time, or I would have done this instead (I always felt guilty about taking the machine apart...).

 

I have no first-hand experience of this organisation, but if you are interested, you can find more here.

[Olly]

Thanks - that's great, I need to check if my machine is the right sort but if it is (and if I can work out how to get it to Southampton! ) I will definitely donate it. I would much rather it went somewhere it can be put to good use, I just want to find it a home really!

[ubereglu]

I like Wade Whimsies AnnieP! We have several, usually bought from Bridport market or a strange cafe antiquey place in Exeter for a couple of quid each.

[Happy chickens!]

Now what did I do with my wade whimsies - I'm sure they must be in the loft somewhere...

[chickencam]

We have just sold a faulty radio and some faulty speakers for good prices on ebay, to people who will make them live again which is so much more satisfying than a trip to the tip. Both buyers were delighted with their purchases