posted on April 8, 2001 09:57:03 PM
I put a Pillsbury Doughboy watch that giggled every hour up for auction once. That thing scared me, and would even wake me up while I was sleeping. I shipped it before I recieved payment, too! I was thrilled to get that thing out of the house! Let someone else deal with it. It was scaring our guinea pig, too, so it was a happy day when it shipped. Unfortunately, that was before BIN, so we had to wait a while for the auction to close. The bidder was thrilled with it!
posted on April 9, 2001 12:17:23 AM
I'm a crystal snob and I have a nice shelf of pretty Waterford pieces that I have acquired over the years. A few years ago we went to San Francisco and my daughter brought back a souvenir shot glass from Alcatraz for my husband. He proudly placed it on my Waterford shelf. Every time I dust that shelf the devil urges me to accidently drop it outside on the concrete. My strong sense of ethics, of course, will not allow that.
Well.....I was cleaning today and I accidently took a photo of it and listed it. If it sells, I'm shipping it immediately. Payment is optional! Deadbeats welcome! Just give me your address.
Now to decide which of the kids to blame when hubby asks about it.
posted on April 9, 2001 04:30:14 PM
I sold a 6 foot sail fish my dad had mounted on his wall. It was a very popular item. Bidders continued to contact me after the auction ended to see if I would sell it to them for more. The winning bidder was able to pick it up which was the best part since i had no idea how I was going to ship it without breaking off the nose.
I also sold a 10 year old crock pot for $15 plus shipping. (I think you can get a new one at Target for the same price.)
I haven't been able to unload a pair of little girl's tennis shoes with sparkly hearts glued on them, no matter how I spruce up the description. i thought they would get snapped up right away but one would even give me a buck for them!
posted on April 9, 2001 04:59:04 PM
Last year I sold 25 finches,this year someone tryed to sell me 40 parakeets,I told them I out of the bird business.
posted on April 25, 2001 01:43:21 PM
I am a reporter at the Wall Street Journal and I am looking for people who are selling things on eBay that they have bought in the last year or so and are now trying to dump.
The idea is that people have consumed so much in the last few years, they are now trying to get rid of some of this stuff.
posted on April 25, 2001 03:51:35 PM
I had some old beaded fruit I purchased at a thrift shop years ago. I couldn't believe how much they sold for, well over $100.00
posted on April 25, 2001 05:59:04 PM
All I can say is that 4 years ago, after my mother died, I had a huge garage sale, (she kept EVERYTHING--including a box to a coffee pot that was long gone...) and I see stuff every now & then on Ebay, and I just bang my head on the keyboard. $15-50 on ebay, and well, you know how much we spend at garage sales. Coulda should woulda...
posted on April 26, 2001 03:24:03 AM
I have sold quite a few things that I had bought at auction sites fairly recently.
It wasnt to buy low, sell high or anything like that.
Stuff I bought that are a hell of a lot uglier than they looked in the picture in the auction add lol.
For example I have 2 carnival glass candy dishes green on top fading into a blue base. I kept bidding and getting out bid so I got pissed and when I saw others up I aggressively bid and won.
not one but two of these ugly candy dishes. (seperate auctions and sellers)
The pictures were nice in the adds but when they both arrived they were rather DAMN ugly and they are not matching in the colors so they look even worse next to each other.
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posted on April 26, 2001 11:42:50 AM
I used to work in an executive office which required much dressier clothes than I now wear. Besides, my weight has changed. So I am selling off two closets full of designer name and "well known store name" clothes.
I'm getting more for them than I would at a garage sale, but gosh, the work involved in taking the photo, writing the description, checking the auction every hour to see if I got any bids yet, notifying the high bidder (or relisting) handling all the paper work, packing and shipping. I doubt its all worth the time involved in getting the extra 5 bucks for the outfit over what a garage sale might bring.
Not my name on ebay.
