Oh, if we’re also allowed success stories… I was at Xscape in Castleford one day and the local Puma store were selling really naff knee / elbow pads for 10p a packet in a huge bargain bin. I bought as many as I could be arsed stuffing in the car (about £20 worth) and sold each one for about a fiver plus postage.

Good job I lived 30 seconds away from the local post office. They hated me in there.

Just had my frame “won” by someone with no history, which is strange as they’ve been a member for 4 years.

Also lives in Chile, so I won’t hold my breath for payment….

Large 25L Hydrapak including brand new 3L res – £7.

Someone in South Wales got themselves a bargain.

A few years back, I meant to order the Wii console version of Endless Ocean for better half, but seconds after confirming the purchase, realised I had ordered the wrong platform version! 😳

Contacted seller immediately, they were great and sent a Wii version out, but the other platform version had already been processed so was asked to return it when it arrived. Well it arrived, but it is buried somewhere in the flat, silly me forgot to return it. 😳 😳

A grands worth of hardtail for £80.

I know I’ll take pelters, but I wouldn’t have sold it.

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johndoh – Member
Never heard of this ?? .. i work at the local HRC and we dont charge anything , Basins,ceramics etc just go into the rubble to get recycled

Yup – Harrogate council – ceramics, rubble, plasterboard etc – all counted as ‘home improvements’ and they charge to dump it.
Recently I had to pay £11 to dispose of some half empty bags of plaster that a workman left behind in our garage after doing some work on our house.

http://m.northyorks.gov.uk/article/29205/Hardcore-rubble-and-plasterboard-waste?

apologies for the hijack again,this really surprised me as im in birmingham and we charge for nothing ? .. only thing we dont take is asbestos or sharps
we have to deal with massive vans as well which carry literally tonnes of crap !, we have said in the past that people should get charged for it, im gonna print the price list off and leave it around the place to see anyone takes notice 🙂

They don’t charge in Leeds either, but they’re all posh in Harrogate so it’s fair enough!! 😉

th no history, which is strange as they’ve been a member for 4 years.
Also lives in Chile, so I won’t hold my breath for paym

I’ve just sold one of those kirk magnesium frames on eBay, had 2 enquiries asking if I’d ship it to Chile.

Sold stuff that’s left me at £0 before but I hate wasting things, it’s a slog and sometimes not worth it but selling the contents of our shed has paid for a week in Dorset. Also, less stuff, this is a good thing.

Sold a proper old school petrol mower (the self propelled type with a big roller on the front) It went for the 99p listing price.

I told my missus “he’s bound to give us a fiver for it – I would if it was me” Nope he gave me a quid and insisted on his 1p change the bastard!

I just sell using Buy It Now these days, seems better for everyone.

I’ve just sold all of my archery gear. I made the mistake of trusting eBay’s recommended postage costs, not realising that several of the items would cost £11.99 due to the length, even though they weighed very little!

If it’s not too late, have you checked MyHermes? They take irregular shaped stuff way cheaper than RM.

Last week I found to my surprise in my Inbox that I had bought a carbon 29er full build (probebly someone on here) which was on for £1200 as a buy it now or best offer and collect only. I still have no idea how this happened. I never do drunk purchases and it was anyway `bought’ the previous day at 4pm when I was on holiday. Ebay confirmed my account had not been hacked and I can’t believe my 4 yr old could have done it. My frame only searches had no relevance either, nor would I want to collect a bike from the other side of the country anyway. The only thing I could put it down to was my iphone screen was cracked and until I put it on 5 second lock had been opening random pages on my phone when in my pocket for example, getting as far as almost deleting a few apps.

Sent some apology emails to the seller and rang ebay in a flap, but they were fine about it and the seller has now cancelled the purchase. In hindsight slightly gutted as it was a nice bike and the Wife didn’t seem that annoyed about the possibility of me loosing £1200 on a bike I neither could afford nor needed, so that barometer has been filed away for the future 🙂

on a flipside..

won a very nice speaker stand (newish) for peanuts rrp should be £180 .. no one bids and its collect only and very heavy , got it for like £5 😆 ..I cannot forget the look on his face when I collected it . I even say sorry and gave him £20 😀

A couple of weeks ago i sold a few items, anyway cocked it all up and one buyer ended up with two items.

Not getting the wrong one back 🙁

Its a shame as the bloke who never got what he bought seems like a descent bloke. (Full refund)

Using non-tracked postage, right back when (2004?), that was a mistake I never made again. So, buyer gets this bubble image ’60s projector thing, pays £25 plus some post. I’m on holiday. I say as much. He then makes a massive fuss about me not being responsive and not getting his projector. I return from holiday. Apologise for being on holiday and not checking ebay. Send projector. Several weeks later it turns out he’s claimed he never received it and I’m down £35. Never again.

Guesstimating postage has gone a bit wrong on a few occassions. Never again, and never use RM.

I won a Kona retro frame for 99p and went to collect it, was surprised that the bloke sold it to me for that little but he was chuffed it would be reused (it was a state but a repaint sorted it) – looked in his garage where it was stored and you couldn’t have fitted another molecule in it – he was just listing everything for 99p and he didn’t care how much it went for.

Sold a nice scanner for 99p as my new OS didn’t support it. Bloke who came to collect it was really nervous as he didn’t think I’d sell it for so little but I was just glad someone could make use of it.

I put a pretty ratty pine table up for sale for 99p. I could have sanded it back and painted it and got £150 for it but I was hoping someone might think the same and I didn’t have time to do it. Bloke messages me and said what did I want for it, I said £30 and he sent someone round to pick it up that day so I canceled the auction. The bloke picking it up said he did this all the time for the buyer and he would strip it and sand it and sell it on for a profit. Again, I got a decent amount of money, it was going to be reused and someone was making a living out of what I was selling so I was very happy! Can’t stand to see things going to waste.

biggest ebay failure.

ACTUALLY BEING STUPID ENOUGH TO USE EBAY.

pocpoc – Member
What car are they for? Someone on here (me if it’s the right car) may be interested.

Mk7 Honda Accord touring. One of these:

Selling a nice Ti hardtail, was hoping to get >£800, but instead of listing it to sell at 9pm Sunday, listed it as 9am Sunday. Disaster & £450.

Tried to sell some roof bars my dad gave me, which don’t fit my car.

Started at £25. No interest.

Started at £0.99. No interest.

The problem with trying to sell car accessories on eBay is that the market is flooded with cheap new ones. I know, because I was about to buy a bike rack from Halfords for £100 or whatever, then I looked on eBay and found them for £20.

I think someone would rather spend £20 on a new thing from a bulk seller than go through the hassle of getting a slightly better bargain from a private seller, with all of the hassle that potentially entails.

The problem with trying to sell car accessories on eBay is that the market is flooded with cheap new ones

…and they’re all abject crap.

Most useful thing you can do if searching for car accessory bits on ebay is to tick the “condition – used” box… 99% i.e. the “universal” rubbish is removed. You stick a chance of finding the manufacturer’s original bits that way, or something made by a reputable brand.

Sold a tube amps for £660 on ebay, the next year the buyer sells it on for £1600, and uses my name and some pictures from the HiFi show I used it at as provence for it 🙁

ACTUALLY BEING STUPID ENOUGH TO USE EBAY.

Care to expand on that?

Possibly without the caps.

bongohoohaa – Member

ACTUALLY BEING STUPID ENOUGH TO USE EBAY.

Care to expand on that?

Possibly without the caps.

a c t u a l l y b e i n g s t u p i d e n o u g h t o u s e e b a y

Better?

a c t u a l l y b e i n g s t u p i d e n o u g h t o u s e e b a y

so the original was a pretty stupid comment, and this one is even more stupid?

What other forum gives you the visibility for selling to as many people ?

This affects prices, add in ‘auction fever’ as it’s an attractive proposition. The main downer is fees, but if you can’t get as good prices elsewhere you haven’t got the option.

so the original was a pretty stupid comment, and this one is even more stupid?

I think the joke is they have literally expanded on the original comment.

It at least deserves a…

I think the joke is they have literally expanded on the original comment.

lost the spaces though.

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An old 128gb ssd drive that went for £30. Just stuck it in a jiffy bag & posted it. I didnt ask for a receipt at the post office being in a rush & near christmas.
It never arrived (they claim, maybe it didnt but I am inherently distrustful). So I send them another jiffy with a cat 5 cable cut in half but got a receipt from the PO this time, then was able to claim £25 back from the royalmail, so a monetary loss averted.

Sold an Alpine 160 a few years back. It was one of our ex-hire bikes, but had barely been used due to the great Fox Fork Scandal of summer 2013. 3-months old, £3000 new, went for £650 on ebay.

Got a whole load of grief from the buyer because the saddle had a wee tear on it.

I had a load of 38mm chipboard left over from a mezz floor install so rather than put it in a skip, stuck it on ebay for 99p NR. Sold it for 99p but the bloke said it was too big so handed over a £1 and left. Put it back on and a week later sold it for £56.

The vaguaries of Ebay! 🙂

Care to expand on that?

NO 🙄

so the original was a pretty stupid comment, and this one is even more stupid?

Judgmental nobber on STW making even more stupid comment.

Care to expand on that?

NO

why the hell not?

If you can’t justify your statement then who’s the nobber here ?

Judgmental nobber on STW making even more stupid comment.

Genuine lol.

Who’s pissed on your chips?

Thread: EJECT!

why the hell not?

holy overreaction to something posted on www….batman

Thread: EJECT!

exactly , sensitive bunnies on here today.

sensitive bunnies on here today.

Don’t get excited, Sam 🙂

This was my worst buy. Also my best as I’ve only ever bought this on ebay.

I love riding this in to worl. This morning in the rain I even came in the 8ml route instead of the 4, just to get a couple more little ‘hills’.
Eliptical front ring single speed not fixed. And a stoopid stem.

You got done mate, it’s only got half a fork.

Worst: selling some Lyriks to someone who had buyers remorse (he worked in an lBS soy could have got them trade for what he paid used, and prob realised after the event) and claimed they had all sorts of damage. I gave a full refund and got thrm back. To find he’d cut the steerer in the short time he had them so short they wouldn’t fit my bike :/

Best: buying a Fox shock from a Chinese seller for £60. Never getting around to fitting it. Selling it for £120.

Worst:

Sold two Ground Effect jerseys, same size and condition, different colours, two buyers. Sent wrong one to both, one guy was fine, other wasn’t so had to pay double for postage on both 🙁

Best:
Idly put a lowball bid on a leather suite, poorly advertised. Massively surprised to win it at £7.50. Even more surprised when I collected it, as it was in really good condition and made by Stressless, retail over £4k 8O. Kept the sofa, sold the chairs for £350 🙂

I once ended up bidding against myself on a bike. (Don’t ask, drunk eBay logic)