glassgrl
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posted on September 26, 2005 04:53:11 PM
What exceeded your expectations? What did you buy to resell on Ebay that you just couldn't turn loose of?
I bought an Oreck electric broom intending to sell it. Here's one on Ebay now:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Oreck-DP-460-Dual-Power-4-8-Amps-Used-Like-New_W0QQitemZ4408037001QQcategoryZ71243QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I've had a Bissell and figured this was about the same kind of thing - wimpy at best. But for $5.00 I thought I'd give a chance, knowing that Oreck or any brand name like that sells well on Ebay.
This thing ROCKS on hard floors - sucky on carpet. But in 5 minutes I can clean 3 rooms of linoleum and tile right up to the edges and corners. I love it!
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on September 26, 2005 05:03:49 PM
Definitely Photoshop Elements 3.0. I can do anything and everything with this program! Well worth the $100.
What didn't meet my expectations? My crappy Honda Accord! Only 30,000 miles and the radio broke, the brake switch went out and now I'm having trouble with emissions. What a piece of junk!
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max40
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posted on September 26, 2005 05:16:19 PM
I too bought an Oreck to resell. After I cleaned it and replaced the brush belt, my wife decided to try it out. That was 3 years ago and she's still trying it out.
If you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first, they'll believe you
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glassgrl
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posted on September 26, 2005 05:30:37 PM
I had an Oreck regular vacuum cleaner given to me at a yard sale. They said it wouldn't keep the belt on it, so we took it. Got it home and cleaned it up - and the belt stayed on...but it smelled like burnt rubber. I couldn't stand it and it didn't vacuum worth a darn so I gave it away to my sister-in-law who cleans houses for a living. She took it in and had them completely redo it so I guess it didn't smell like that anymore. Anyway I wasn't impressed with their regular vacuum cleaner at all! Give me a Hoover upright any day. I have a Hoover commercial vacuum that will suck the carpet right up off the floor.
Since my DH wants to replace all the carpet with hardwood floor this stick broom is a keeper. You don't even have to get close to the dirt for it to disappear! I'm a barefoot girl from FL so I know what a clean floor feels like!
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 26, 2005 05:34:58 PM
I have major keeperitis when it comes to buying for resale - most of the time though, I just keep it for awhile, enjoy it - and then sell it.
I have just 1 or 2 things I can't part with - one of them is a big jade horse I bought for resale about 5 years ago from Sloans in DC. I bid $400 but the reserve was not met. The auction house later offered it to me at my $400 bid because the estate that consigned it wanted everything sold.
I really could not afford it, but someone I knew there that I trusted told me it was worth much, much more and the reserve was alot higher. I put off paying my electric, cable & phone bill to pay for it.
I cannot bring myself to sell him - he's worth alot - he's about 28 inches long, 20 inches high on a fitted wooden stand. He's made of jade, probably a spinach jade, not jewelry grade. He's probably about 90-100 years old and Chinese.
I think he's brought me good luck and I'm scared to sell him and will probably keep him forever.
He's like the one from this listing - but bigger and nicer:
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/370-Carved-Jade-Reclining-Horse-16_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28221QQitemZ6558222921QQrdZ1
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 Caroline
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on September 26, 2005 05:56:00 PM
Exceeded my expectations? My wife.
Bought for resale? Uh, nothing.
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sparkz
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posted on September 26, 2005 06:09:50 PM
The most horrible sound a seller can hear is when he buys a widget for a dollar, knowing it will bring $100.00, brings it home, and the wife says "That's a keeper" 
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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meowmix71
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posted on September 26, 2005 06:54:25 PM
Glass-We're about to rip up our carpeting and refinish our hardwood floors. We have them throughout the house. All of our bedrooms are bare hardwood right now and need refinished bad. I haven't peeked under the carpet yet. We have a loose piece I have been dying to yank up and look under. I hope it just needs some sanding and polishing. Our house was built in the 1950's with the real thing so we have an advantage unless we have to replace bad boards. I have a friend who just got hardwood flooring put in and it is gorgeous.
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ruthiebabie108
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posted on September 27, 2005 07:09:38 AM
I bought a box at auction that was all paper 'stuff'. In the box and not the reason I bought it, were two dental catalogues. One 1946, the other 1954, both with pictures and prices. But, com'on. Dental catalogues? So I stuck them on for $1.99. They brought $86.00. That sure was a suprise. I had NO expectations.
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eauctionmgnt
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posted on September 27, 2005 07:26:20 AM
Well... just this summer my wife and I traveled up north to visit my relatives. We spent a day doing some antiquing... and found a great hole-in-the wall place that was practically giving stuff away. I found a couple of huge boxes of paper ephemera (old magazines, sheet music, etc...) that I got for just about $10.00. For what was in there... it was a steal of a deal. (I'll probably make $500+ just off the ads from the magazines).
But... what made it exceed my expectations was a twist of fate! As I was going through the box, I found an old class reunion picture from the 60's. Normally... I would have just glanced at it quickly. But... this picture also had a piece of paper on it that identified the names of each person in the photograph. Imagine my surprise to find my Grandmother! (she had passed away about 15 years ago). I have very few pictures of her... so this was truly a special find. It was almost as if she guided us to the shop and helped us find all the great bargains! She always was a frugal shopper... so I'm sure she would have approved of all the great deals we found at this shop!
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 27, 2005 02:26:39 PM
I think you win with that one - how great for you! And a great entry in the it's a small world category!
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Caroline
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toasted36
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posted on September 27, 2005 07:04:06 PM
Last weekend I bought a 1960 Yearbook for a dollar that had my mother and my aunt Sandy's pictures in it ...They are both gone now so I was thrilled to have found it. My mother had a 1962 year book (the year she graduated) but when the new woman my father moved in came about...things turned up missing so ..you guessed it.Moms yearbook was gone.
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