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Does anyone sell on ebay?

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Does anyone sell on ebay?

Post by Divia » Sun September 14th, 2008, 1:21 pm

I was wondering if anyone sold items on ebay and if so what do you sell?

I've made some good money selling off old toys that I have collected and also old tools.

I buy on ebay too :o Mostly old photographs.
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Post by Alaric » Sun September 14th, 2008, 1:33 pm

Sometimes.

I've mostly sold textbooks that I don't need anymore. Most of them cost far too much (majority are in excess of $80 :mad :) and I don't need them after the semester, so I try and make as much back as possible. It's surprising the number of people that do buy them too.

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Post by Divia » Sun September 14th, 2008, 1:58 pm

I bought used textbooks back in the day. Why pay so much money for a new one when you can get a used one cheaper. Besides, ti was my experience that I rarely used em anyway.
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Post by Rowan » Sun September 14th, 2008, 2:17 pm

I tried selling a few years ago and was successful once. Now I just buy. And I've heard that they are doing their best to weed out small sellers. :confused:

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Post by EC2 » Sun September 14th, 2008, 2:58 pm

I buy lots of stuff on e-bay but I don't sell. I blame it on author Katie Fforde. She joined e-bay to buy some out of production plates she wanted and told us about it on a friends' e-list where we hang out. So I went looking being nosy and ummm..... got hooked. It's great displacement activity! I've not bought many books there - just a couple. Mostly it's unusual pieces of silver jewellery (cheap) and electronics. I've just bought some great mini speakers so I can use my walkman as a music centre in the kitchen. Turns out the seller lives round the corner (literally) from where I used to live in Scotland!
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Post by Divia » Sun September 14th, 2008, 3:03 pm

[quote=""Rowan""]I tried selling a few years ago and was successful once. Now I just buy. And I've heard that they are doing their best to weed out small sellers. :confused: [/quote]


Yeah, thats the rumor on the street. They want to make it more like a "store" where you can go and buy Lady and the Tramp DVD with buy it now.

I like ebay because its an auction site. I dont want to go to the "but it now" crap.
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Post by EC2 » Sun September 14th, 2008, 3:28 pm

[quote=""Divia""]Yeah, thats the rumor on the street. They want to make it more like a "store" where you can go and buy Lady and the Tramp DVD with buy it now.

I like ebay because its an auction site. I dont want to go to the "but it now" crap.[/quote]

Me too Divia. Unless it's something I need that I can't get on the high street (like the dh needed new Z clips when reglazing our greenhouse and for some strange reason garden centres would rather sell scented candles than stuff to do with gardening, so we bought from an e-bay store), I'd far rather go the auction route on e-bay. I usually weed out 'buy it now' stores on my preference list.
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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun September 14th, 2008, 5:15 pm

When I have enough books of usually historical fiction type or Royalty history type then I sell. I used to do an auction every month but this year there's only been one. But I hope with the 48 book I won recently to have a good auction either this or next month.

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Post by boswellbaxter » Sun September 14th, 2008, 10:44 pm

I mostly buy, but after my mother-in-law died I started selling some of her old jewelry (not family heirlooms; she spent a lot of time at auctions and flea markets) on eBay. I've still got scads of it that I haven't got around to listing.
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Post by pat » Mon September 15th, 2008, 3:07 am

I used to sell stuff before we moved, and we sometimes brought stuff too! We made a bit of money from it, but not a lot!
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