garyb Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 This thread could be interesting.... Munglers reply should be... well... "interesting" For me... I've had some right results on the famouse fleebay, the top 3 are.. 1 - Brand new Swarovski 8x56 Scope - £450, normal RRP is closer to £850 2 - Frontera 4x4, Taxed, tested been in the family years - £300 (still got it, comes foxing 3 nights a week & sailed through it's recent mot) <NoPhoto> 3 - Large restaurant style fridge / chiller... Will easily take a couple of Muntjac and all the game / pigeon's you can feed it! - £60 + beer Money to stealth stalker couriers :( As for the worst items..... Can't really say i've seen any... everything i've bought has been as expected :( You ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubble without a cause Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Nice scope Best purchase lately has been a tilley lamp £25, bargin Haven't really had anything bad but ended up with two fishing reels when I really only need one, but left two bids to make sure I got at least one of them. Still I ended up not fixing one to the rod properly and cast it into the sea So the spare is now on the rod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Had some good stuff of fleabay, so cant really critisize them really. 1 Brand new TIMBERLAND shooting jacket 75 quid. 2 brand new LEATHER GUNSLIP top quality leather 67 quid. 3Brand new AIGLE WELLINGTONS top job 58 quid. Had a lot of other good stuff as well, over all well pleased. WORST ONE pair waterproof camo pants 23 quid, ripped to bits first time out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) A Top Quality 'TASCO' scope from Hong Kong at the very expensive price of £21 (£8 + postage) Totally useless, nothing worked on it. Part exchanged a .22 rifle and 'gave the scope away with it for nothing' (but was given an extra £30 off the new rifle) 99.9% of everything else has been good. Edited November 15, 2009 by steve_b_wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 my best and only purchase was a skid lid with a RRP of £70 and postage of £10.... got it from the same peeps on ebay £20 and £6 postage bargin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexr Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Best :-12 duck eggs producing 9 ducks which went on to be Christmas dinner for two families ( £15 if I remember right ) Worst:- one large incubator sold sight unseen never worked went to the tip with in one week of arriving. What was worse was that the seller then complained that I had bad mouthed her product in the feed back. ( COW ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST3V3 Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 best buy 5 wheels with good tyres off a defender £5 so £1 each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 I bought a large quantity of Dexion warehouse racking, collection only, 6 miles from my home, for £50 (the starting bid). I paid for it immediately and sold it on within 48 hours, my Buyer collected it in two lorry loads. How much did I sell it for ?............................... £1250 cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 A set of MAC Knuckle Saver Rouse Racing Special Edition combination spanners 10-19mm - as new £60. Never used them as I didn't want to mark them and I already have more expensive spanners than you can point a stick at. Sold them to a mate of my son's. Never had a bad buy so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delbert Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) A Subaru Legacy Estate 80k miles £301 ran it for two years and sold for a small profit. Pair Of new Loden Breeks £10. plenty of new Rock Band CD's DVD's for pennies Set of gold Alloys for the Outback £23 Edited November 14, 2009 by Delbert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Cranfield mate nice one, bit of an ARTHUR DALEY there mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulf Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Best: Belle mini mix Honda engine, genuine sale with receipt the guy had only literally done his patio with it....... £100, £450 ish new Ifor Williams P6E trailer again genuine sale owner since new, £450 six years later of daily use, sold on ebay for £500. Worst a guy of Asian descent who wanted to charge me an extra £40 on top of the ebay sale price when I came to collect a sofa...... told him were to stick it but cost me £20 in petrol and traveling there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSS Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 I bought a meopta 8x56 scope off someone that found it in the loft for £25, mint condition-then stupidely gave it away not realising what is was worth. I got ripped off for some car parts I bought from china but cant remeber what it was and who the seller was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemicky Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 A renault clio for my daughter £300 3 years ago still going strong worst, a chineese copy of a harris bipod £21 , utter utter rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricko Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Best buy - Cabknoll Gun Cabinet £20 Worst buy - Rip off DVD of Sharks Tale £3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulABF Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Best - A 1950's steel para helmet for £6.99. Bad photo, blurred but took a gamble on recognising the tiny piesce of chin strap which was visible. Later sold for £75. Worst - IPod from seller in Herts but in reality it came from China. Cost £80. Arrived but the IPod had no internals. Complete empty plastic shell. Dispute which ended in us £80 out of pocket and the scammer doing a runner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave 101 Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Best buy 3 Parker Hale foresight tubes with elements 2 off FS22 , 1 no number , £11.00 including postage sold 1 FS22 for £18.00 , no number sold for £14.60 . still have one to sell when Iam a bit short of cash . Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonD Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Best was a Ralph Lauren duck down jacket, £75 ish from the US, they were £500 here at the time. Worst was a rip off DVD fake but was only £3 Jon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 I once picked up a double swing arm mount and wall plate for large plasma/lcd tvs. It was a 'collection only' and the person was in St Albans. They must've felt robbed when i went round and paid them £12 for the lot. I looked it up on the net and the two pieces were for sale on the maker's website for over £500 Worst... Well I nearly got conned out of £400 for a lighting desk (DJing) from a guy who wanted me to pay by western union.... The only thing that stopped me was the fact that the western union telephone call had a prerecorded message that warned people about scammers on Ebay....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Stalker Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Was this thread started with me in mind :o Worst buy: Vauxhall Frontera 2.5TD £ 790 Best Sale: Vauxhall Frontera 2.5TD with the gearbox sat in the boot sold as spares or repair for £510 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Best buy - WW2 pocket watch made by Junghans, bought in Bulgaria for £30 - brought back home, researched and sold for £380 Worst buy, was a LCD TV, was watching 2 of the same make, didnt think I would win the first I had bid on as all the others had gone for much more, put a bid in on another, ended up with 2 LCD TVs. Both been great but wasnt planning on buying the 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyr8 Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 bought for a mate,lazy boy electric armchair £50,same guy got him a complete 4ft jewel aquarium with cabinet and everthing you need including 100 quids worth of fillter tons of bog wood all he needs is water and fish,310 quid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 picked up a hydraulic bike lift for £50, which should have been £125. got lumbered with a crappy rollcab tool box which fell apart when i loaded it up with tools for £130. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Got rid of loads of stuff tho, all my bikes went via e bay raising about £2000. sold our old sofas which were nice looking but seriously uncomfortable for £200. and got rid of 2 really uncomfortable church pews. surprising what people will buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I have a nice little handmade carbon steel Laguiole pocketknife, and thought I'd treat myself to a larger lock-knife, with olive-wood scales, in a belt case. Turning to ebay was a mistake. Although the ad said it was made in France, the knife is a loose-jointed piece of soft monkey metal which will never take an edge. It may have passed through a French market trader at some point, but I think I have been closer to the village of Laguiole than this worthless item. I paid over £20 for it - the one before sold for over £30 so I was not as ripped off as the last guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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