What is the wackiest price you got on ebay?

[Titanium]

Just curious if you have any examples of selling something on ebay that ended up getting bid up higher than expected.

eg. I bought a Fi.z:ik saddle, new for £12 in a Halfords rummage bin. The cover was real fur cow hide; looked slightly like a Gateway computer design. Anyway, months later I decided not to use it afterall and so started it at 99p on ebay, still new and boxed. It finished at £49... I wasn't even sure it would fetch the original £12. Some guy in New York, USA was the one who got it; pleased as punch he was.

Got any good bids yourself, on fleabay?

 

[Hover Fly]

Pair of GB 'bars and stem, went to Japan for £90.
Old steel cranks nicely fluted but nothing special to look at, £120.
Pair of Campag. LF C-Record hubs and MAVIC Montherley rims £360.

 

[vernon]

£200 for a Z80 computer. I'd got it for a fiver a decade earlier.

 

[gbb]

Brooks B17 Narrow saddle from the carboot...looked well used and aged but intact and ok. The price ?...£1 (he wanted £2, the profitmonger )

Sold on ebay several weeks later to a guy in Japan for £72 (IIRC) plus postage

Been looking feverishly for more at the carboot...no chance. Its a once in a blue moon occurence.

 

[Globalti]

A leather motorcycle jacket I bought in 1984 from Rivett's of London for £100. Sold it in 2007 to a guy in Japan for..... £100!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

First 5 copies of The Cure fanzine from when they started + 1980 concert programme and ticket stub - £400!

Couple of oldish copies of The Lord of the Rings - 5p from a carboot sale, sold for £35 each - flogged 'em when the films came out.

Ker-ching!!

 

[XmisterIS]

Knackered old washing machine, didn't spin properly, rust all up one side ... sold for £400!

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

£75 for a 'Megadeth' 12" single from 1989. The American chap was as delighted with his purchase as I was with the £75.

A few other unwanted items from the CD/Vinyl archive went this way, when people had cash to spend.

That is the fun of E-Bay; the 1 off rare/lucky item compensates for the dozens of junk items you sell for a couple of quid that are not really worth the effort.

Don't bother much any more.

 

[XmisterIS]

I think there's a lot of mileage in selling crap to Americans on EBay!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

£60 for a battered old boss analogue delay pedal, bought s/h for half that over a decade ago.

 

[Campfire]

I have quite a lot of Ercol traditional (carved) furniture and saw a largish bureau in a 2nd hand shop for £150, which I thought would be ok but was a bit large & slightly wrong colour. I kept it about 4 years as it was really useful.

I saw one on Ebay and decided to try it & buy something I really wanted. I got £750 & the buyer was really happy. Apparently they were over £2,000 new & a real collectors' piece.

Some time ago I bought 2 pairs of Liberty Ianthe design curtains from a charity shop for £4 to use myself, moved house & curtains too small. I sold them on Ebay for £175.

 

[stephec]

Two years ago I had a pair of £8 Aldi bib tights for sale, I got £26 for them!

 

[amnesia]

I put 102 links of LEGO Technic caterpillar track on eBay as 99p start... it went for over £23 !!!

 

[Downward]

Pair of Oakley Nanowire 2.0.

Bought in January for £100 sold in 16 months later for £165.

 

[upsidedown]

a blue Lewis leathers jacket, bought for £5 at a car boot, sold for £280 to a buyer in Japan.