Do you sell on ebay

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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 589

What items do you sell on ebay

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:19 am

I buy loads on eBay, cars, cameras, bathrooms etc, but rarely sell. After selling a photo for �2.99, then worrying that my 100% feedback was going to be trashed because a numpty woman couldn't tell the difference between contrast and a smudge, I decided it wasn't worth it for small things.

I have sold a TV and a swivel office chair. Not for much, but someone came and took them away for me.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:30 am

Whatever I don't want that I think people will buy, be it books, video games, broken electronic devices etc.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 55

^^ Yeah I do pretty much the same... the Mrs handles it all though, i just skim the profits Very Happy

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:44 am

I've sold a handful of things, a painting was the last one I think.

I mainly use it as a place to buy cheap rubbish that might come in useful. My first bait phone came from there, it was an old black and white screen nokia for about �8.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:50 am

<br>I buy and sell football programmes. Not so much lately though.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:59 am

I just cleaned out a lot of my old PC stuff that I've been accumulating and sold them all on eBay last night.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:25 pm

only sold on Ebay once. a preWW1 prussen spiked helmet. its now in a museum in france. otherwise i only buy... right now DJ lighting

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:14 pm

I don't sell on eBay but I buy old computer games such as the Lemmings series.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:18 pm

I'm almost embarassed to say my ebay rating is approaching 500. I buy and sell like a madman.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:58 pm

Last thing I sold was a car.
Last thing I bought was a USB lead.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:53 pm

I've sold everything from individual books to an entire offset film production street (including 2 laser imagesetters, a 68cm input developer, a Fuji analog proofing system, a flat bed film copier, and a huge reprocamera).

I usually only buy CDs, DVDs, books, and materials for my laser printers.

I've found that Ebay's rules allow more than many people think. While one is not allowed to link to outside sources, simply because they can be altered once an auction has started, one is allowed to hot-link pictures, just like we do here on this site.

Instead if paying Ebay lots of money for fancy backgrounds, etc., you can write up your own HTML code and put it in the description window. Ebay offers you basic html functions, but I just tried using more and found out you can use almost any HTML code. So, just pay for the basic auction, and you can put in as many pictures as you want, including making the auction window look good.

For some expensive articles I used hot-linked pictures at 640pxl as links to larger versions at 2000pxl, allowing the buyer a good look at what he's buying.

Here's an example:

Code:

My experience is that you get higher bids that way.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:10 pm

Most recently a few Adobe promo items... to a guy in the Czech Republic. He bought the stress ball, pens, bag, t-shirt... Very Happy

I have bought craft items such as transfers, and I bought a quite rare original Silence of the Lambs film poster. When I went to uni my parents rolled it up and put it in the loft. Mice got it. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:37 am

Sold:

Airline Collectables (cabinware mostly)
Film Collectables

Bought/Sold:

Books/Collectables relating to someone called Sherlock Holmes Wink

NOTE TO SELF: Time for another clear-out...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:18 pm

Sell : women's clothing, size 16+ (don't ask)

Buy : any old tat

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:45 pm

I sold a load of stuff that I decided I didn't want after a move. I know, I should have decided that before I moved. Rolling Eyes

In my own defence, some items were ceramics that did not fit with the style of the new place, and others were things that I still liked but no longer had space for. One was a photo album that was bought by a man as part of an anniversary present for his wife. He had a million and one questions about it before he bought it and I sent him several more pics, while thinking him a little tiresome. He sent me a lovely email afterwards to tell me he'd filled the album with pics from their life together and how much his wife liked it. Very Happy

I've bought very little. I got a Stephen Colbert Wriststrong bangle for a friend that was a success, and which I couldn't get direct. Comedy Central's shop doesn't ship outside the US. Sad

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 12

Last thing bought - an 18ct wedding ring (waiting to see the hallmark lol)
Last thing sold - a tent I think