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11 May 18
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What have you sold on Ebay which shocked you how much you got for it?
I listed an old Freemans catalogue 1970s thinking I might get a fiver for it. It sold for £190
I listed an old Freemans catalogue 1970s thinking I might get a fiver for it. It sold for £190
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....I can imagine chit chatters searching their attics for old mail order catalogues!
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Seemingly, fashion designers steal ideas from them.
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Sold a Hardy Salmon Fishing Reel for my dad. He said it was rare and might make £100. From memory 48 bids and went for nearly £500. He has several others, some "better" but says they are for the grandchildren.
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A Michael McIntyre DVD.
I think I got as much as 75p for it but ended up out of pocket as posrage was free. |
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The mistake I made was typing in my description, "serious bidders only, please".
I think I put off the bidders with a sense of humour. |
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My mother in Law was a Freemans Agent , it is absolutely Tragic she is not a Hoarder
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People often pay more than an items worth because they are determined to'win' the bidding.
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Black. Hardy Reels worth Big money as you say. My friend made fortunes Picking them up at BOOTS,and selling them on ..
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You have no luck casemoney
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casemoney - correct! what is weird, or perhaps not weird, is that that the rank order of value seems to be salmon, trout, course and sea reels in that order. He has a huge 6" Hardy alloy sea reel that he used to beach casting with
. It is lovely and is going nowhere, even though it is "low" value. |
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If you sell a collectable item and two collectors want it to complete there collection, it's great fun watching the p rice go up and up!
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Blackbarn do you collect the Ogden cigarette cards? Some nice sets on Ebay, including famous owners colours.
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Yes I have several sets of Ogdens and also sets by other manufacturers
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Are they originals or reprints? Hope you don't mind me asking. I have a good collection of baseball cards. Big money can be made on them if you get the right one. The very old ones.
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Among other things that is , He was a very astute person would pay literally Pennies for things at Carboots and make money on them ,he had amassed a fortune in Dinky/Corgi toys Etc that he would knock out occasionally ,He bought a Boat went to Holland to pick it up ,think it was a Torpedo boat Paid 2k for it got it towed back to the UK ,some how managed to obtain Moorings
at Hampton court (rental) The boat became a Houseboat which he stayed on ,He then Sold the boat in Situ with the moorings for Circa 100,000 , He invested that in a semi Rural Derelict House Nottingam , Lord knows where he would have ended up money wise ,but shortly after Buying the House he Dropped Dead brain aneurysm ,Aged 50 ,A book could have been Written about him a Tearaway for his younger years ,Then 20/25 years back he Obtained a book regarding Toy cars and their Value  Sorry for Rambling He was a good Friend a Real Character ,He was actually arrested and held for attempted Murder for a couple of days, after a CCTV picture of him at a nearby garage Appeared in the Local Hounslow Paper ,had absolutely nothing to do with it Was just stopping for petrol at a Garage near where the incident had Taken place .. I dont think that done him any Favours Tbh 048e98a6d0745d6bc342e91c58452bbxxxxxxxxxxx (3869)0.0% DeleteAdd note 14/05/08 10 year Plus  I used to love reading the Feedback knowing what he had Paid ,Sorry for going on . I will add he was never 100 % |
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Mac your Spot on mate
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I can remember the Seasonal Catalogues being Delivered she had dozens of the fckin things in the House ,an absolute Disaster
I'll tell you one thing if you ever ordered summat you never missed a Payment |
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A shop near me had 2 tubs of a pet product that they were selling for £1 each. They looked too good for a quid so I had a look online and found the brand website retails them for £37 each. I went back, bought the lot (144 items) and am currently selling them for £25 each.
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Hey TMM, I collect baseball cards too, albeit only Milwaukee Brewers. I do have plenty of non-Brewers but they are all for sale, and have a few Topps factory sets, which aren't. Are yours mainly vintage? If so, do you sell them on ebay? In my experience ebayUK is a terrible place to be selling, although I've had some great deals buying - once bought a box of 70s stuff for a tenner and it contained multiple cards that paid for the box by themselves. I still have two Pete Maravich RCs from it, just waiting to ship them off to the US when I can be arsed.
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Sold a Gold and Wonder cheese and onion crisp packet (empty) got £5 for it, apparently gold and wonder we're going bust, in the end they didn't go bust, not sure what happened but got a fiver so was happy went out an bought some walkers
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Hi Mikael, I like the vintage cards featuring the great players, but I have lots of modern ones mostly Topps. I did sell all the doublers I had on Ebay USA as a job lot. I remember conversing with a poster on the Baseball forum many years ago who was a Brewers fan and actually came from Milwaukee.
Was Maravich not a Basketball player? Barry Bonds signed and sent me a limited edition card celebrating his record breaking 762 Home Runs! Pity about the bad press which may have decreased it`s value. |
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Pistol Pete Maravich was indeed a basketball player.
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I have some old Bowman cards but they are special
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Thanks joel
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I have some basketball cards from the early 90's but will most likely throw them out as they are not worth much at all.
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Where do these cards come from Mac.
I have a couple of collections (bought framed) of old cigarette cards. Were yours cigarette cards as well? |
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Yeah, Maravich played hoops. Came in a box with bundles of stars - Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to me and you,) Nolan Ryan, Thurman Munson, even OJ Simpson. Sold all bar the basketball cards since they're the 'tallboy' size and I had no way to protect them.
I still buy Bonds now, bought two this morning in fact. Values have indeed plummeted but they're recovering. (You sure the Brewers fan wasn't me? My wife is from Milwaukee...) |
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I listed an old Freemans catalogue 1970s thinking I might get a fiver for it. It sold for £190
I can understand why this sold for such a price. Many a bloke who was a teenager in the 1970's will have fond memories of the ladies underwear section in the Freemans catalogue  |
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Most cards from the mid-80s to mid-90s are practically worthless, due to the extreme overproduction. If you have a Michael Jordan rookie or some Precious Metal Gems, you're rich though!
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Aka, I have some old Baseball cigarette cards, but mostly collectors cards which are a bit bigger.
They are highly collectable. Honus Wagner's 1909-11 T206 card sold for over 3 million dollars. Old cards can get over one millions dollars like Topps Micky Mantle card. The framed cards you have aka, are they Baseball? They could be worth a right few quid depending what they are |
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A 52 Mantle recently sold recently for $2.88M.
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Did I mention it was recently?
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When ebay first started my mrs and I used to sell her unwashed briefs. It started as a joke but it escaleted and we were selling 10-15 pairs a week @ £5 ea. We stopped when we found out her brother had bought some!!!!
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For a laugh..i advertised on e bay for sale ..A BAG OF WIND..5 bidders wanted it . in total 35 bids were placed..went to 27 pounds..caused an awful stink when I explained it was a hoax
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Mikael, I would have remembered if it had been you (unless you had another nom de plume). It may have been sparkmaster who sadly is no longer with us.
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Sparky was indeed born in Milwaukee but had very limited interest in the Brewers, and even less in baseball, though he was a big fan of Green Bay of course.
My other name was Easter1916. If there has been another Brewers fan on here, apart from honorary fans Tommy Toes and Fishy, I would've been all over them! (Not to say there isn't/wasn't, just not sure how I woulda missed them.) |
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Anyone sold horse racing memorabilia? Got a hoard that i could do with getting rid of.
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Geoff - Not much money to be had with racing books or dvds, but old vintage memorabilia can fetch good money with a little luck.
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A lot tougher now to make money selling on ebay.
Much more competition with sellers cutting margins to the bone. Buyers have wised-up and have less money to spend. Sellers catch on very quickly - if you have found something that sells well, someone else will follow. Items going "missing" in the post. Ebay imposing onerous rules on sellers. |