[Closed] Cheeky Ebay bid, you didn't truly expect to win...

An (almost) brand new Boardman HT, starting bid of £250 - put down £260 and won it 🙂

bugaboo pram. £60 when most of that ilk went for about £250.

the guy wasn't to pleased when I went to pick it up.

I was winning that until you bid 🙂 was in a lecture and couldn't put another on. Enjoy it !

Kawasaki gt550 for £650, hadn't mentioned to Mrs Kilo that I was thinking about getting a motorbike and then found out I'd won it when away on a weekend drinking cue "Darling, you know I mentioned I might get a motorbike again...."

Kona Fire Mountain. Poorly worded ad and not brilliant pic. Speculated £100 on it and got it. Picked it up and it is in mint condition! Got roadslicks on but change those and it'll be a fantastic first bike for someone.

I was winning that until you bid was in a lecture and couldn't put another on. Enjoy it !

The pram or the bike? 🙂

MB Quart Component Speakers rrp £250, won for £20, sold 5 years later for £60!

Ah that was you was it? 🙂

Kona Fire Mountain. Poorly worded ad and not brilliant pic.

Stolen? 😉

I've 'accidentally' bought tons of stuff off ebay now. Managed to cut down a bit lately thankfully.

I was bidding on a complete bmx once. Had £100 as my maximum and faithfully stuck to it. The bidding went just over £100 so sticking to my promise I left it alone. I went and bid on another bmx and won it, only to find out the winning bid on the previous bmx had been withdrawn and I was now the winning bidder at my maximum.

Looking into it and at the sellers history I discovered that this is a common scam called 'shilling' (I think) to get maximum bids out of people and so protested it and managed not to have to buy them both!

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Ah that was you was it?

Yeah, sorry! 😉

I was after new mirrors for the motorbike and they are getting harder to get decent ones as bike gets older. A new old set came up and week before it was up I stuck a 99p bid on so I wouldn't forget about them, I forgot when I got an email telling me I'd won them 😉 free postage too , nice

1 year old Norco team DH. Brand new warranty replaced rear end. Barely used.

£560

The guy had sold it a few weeks before for over £1500 but the chap messed him around. He relisted and went in holiday. I pounced. Couldn't pick it up and get outta there quick enough..he wasn't entirely happy but did the right thing anyway.

2 weeks later my warranty replacement front end arrived from Norco 2nd to the frame recall they were doing! Brand new Norco team DH it is then.

A 2008 CBR600RR i won on the bay for £2850.
Didn't expect to win at all.Immediately panicked.

A Defender. I came back from the pub and was curious whether the reserve price was over €9000 or not.

Cervelo S3 frame. Was at a bargain-ous £1200, but located in the US. Shipping and import duty made it slightly less of a bargain. Whoops! 😀

Pair of Gore 3/4 windproof cycling trousers, BNIB, RRP over £110. Bid 27 & won. Very suprised. Bloke took a looong time to post them. They're ace & I'm just about to put them on again and go ride! 🙂

Oh, also, a 2001 VW transporter bought for £587 whilst super drunk. Didn't even recall it in the morning. Took 2 days before I checked my emails.

Ex plumbers van. Grotty inside. But a little clean, some paint inside and a nifty bed in the back meant it was used to live in over 10 months kayaking in Austria.

Massive bargain

Ah yes... Drunken, post pub eBay bidding. Dangerous! I'll bid on both lovely new hardtail frames as I'll definitely not win then both, will I?

Oops..... Erm.....

That took a bit of explaining

What's that?
It's a new frame
You had a new frame delivered yesterday!!!!
😳

Not me, but someone at work is the proud owner of a glasgow corporation atlantean double decker bus as a result of e-bay and a tad too much southern comfort...

Mrs wife bought a rubbish, knackered, VW Polo. Didn't tell me until she was on the way back with it.
It blew up on the motorway 6months later while she was taking friends somewhere - good riddance!

Not me, but someone at work is the proud owner of a glasgow corporation atlantean double decker bus as a result of e-bay and a tad too much southern comfort...

Brilliant!

A campervan/race truck. Up on an auction 6k start, I put the first bid on not really thinking with days left to go, got a call the next morning asking if I wanted it. Picked it up, kept it for over a year and sold for nearly £11k. Was pretty chuffed with that!

Literally, this week, glancing the mobile for Buy it Now's just listed while queuing in Bolton Post Office, spotted an 2008 Sworks Stumpy 120, with full xtr, thompson, mavic crossmax wheels, fox 130mm etc, for silly money, that had been listed for 6 minutes...

Quick panic check of seller to see if legit, took a decision it was.

Bought & paid instantly.

Spoke to him, drove 400 miles that night round trip to pick it up, still wary...

Arrived to find a total gent & a genuine bike - all previous manuals - as in ALL, right down to packaging for tyres - even got a cuppa and good chat out of it.

Showroom condition, spotless - it was like a time-warp looking at it.

£650.

I did feel quite bad, I told him - I still do in fact - he knew it was going for less than it's worth, but apparently ebay restricted amount he could ask as first sale on eBay?...I'll be flogging him a bit extra by paypal when I've sold my old bike.

Still can't get smile off my face; although Mrs D is not impressed at it being in the spare room.

Tom 83, he has a license to drive it, and goes to bus rallies with other similarly minded folk, weird if you ask me. not enough anoraks apparently

Got a pair of Chrs King road hubs for £47 😀 those were the days

the guy wasn't too pleased when I went to pick it up.

Had this with a drum kit bargain a long while back. Explaining that he'd have had better luck had he spelled the ad title correctly didn't seem to help.

daft bid on set of four thule roof carriers complete with roof rack £16.00 guy was moving house and needed them picking up straight away. felt guilty giving the guy the cash picking them up. spent about £20 buying new foot pack one new roof and four bike racks to fit new car i`d just bought.

About 9 years ago I won a Evo 6 RSR that had been written off as a Cat D. It needed a new bumper, bonnet & wing. I paid £1.01 for it.

I'll never top that!

About 9 years ago I won a Evo 6 RSR that had been written off as a Cat D. It needed a new bumper, bonnet & wing. I paid £1.01 for it.

You win. 🙂

Bought a TSG pi$$ pot for 99p + £3 postage. The ad was for a HELMUT.

When it arrived the postage label was for £8.