posted on February 1, 2003 03:03:32 AM new
Here's a fun new thread...care to share with all of us what your first eBay sale was? The first sale that got you "hooked"?
Mine was a 60's era kung fu magazine that I sold for my dad...had Bruce Lee on the cover. It was in mint shape, and sold it to a Japanese customer for $930.00. Needless to say, I was hooked!
posted on February 1, 2003 03:42:04 AM new
Yeah, the good ole days!
I started with a PEZ Dollhouse Door Stop -- found an ole PEZ candy in my Coastie jumper...slapped 16 coats of shellac on that sucker & sold it on eBay for $0.50 -- I WAS HOOKED!
Soon, I was into Celebrity Naval Flotsom (commonly known by ye commoners as "belly-button lint"... and then I really began my walk down the wide side into the seamy underworld of...
Monkey-Porn!
24/7 dodging PETA'S PET POLICE, not to mention SAG! It began to ruin my life! (YOU ever try to force BLACK SOCKS on a CHIMP??!!)
It's becoming TOO MUCH! And if Meg tries to force me to ship FREE, then I'll just....
posted on February 1, 2003 08:23:26 AM new
the first one that "hooked" us was 3 boxes of prepared microscope slides that we found at Goodwill for $1.50 each. Sold them for over $200.00.
I remember the good old days of listing 10 auctions a week - celebrating every hit that we got and clicking refresh every 5 seconds as they were closing. Now I rarely watch something close unless we think it will be FTW (fun to watch).
posted on February 1, 2003 09:31:09 AM new
TURBOMAN! Didn't even know what he was until my grandson told me he wanted one. I had to ask grandpa what the guy in "Jingle all the Way" was. Then I looked for them on ebay and they were outrageously priced! A few months later, my son found three of them on the clearance aisle at K-Mart for ten bucks each and he bought all three of them. Grandson got one and each grandma got one. I immediately put my on ebay BUT, newbie that I was, I tried to make my auction special. In the title I spelled out
"T*U*R*B*O*M*A*N". Well, luckily nobody spotted it and stole it. So, I relisted it the correct way and sold it for $123.00. The Turboman that grandson got is now history and the other grandma still has hers.
posted on February 1, 2003 11:42:02 AM new
We saw Ebay on the news back in 1998. The Hubby and I had been trying to decide how to get rid of his old Star Wars toys.
A local store offered us $10.00 for a lot of 30 figures, Millennium Falcon and Sandcrawler. We thought we'd try Ebay...
We listed the figures in one lot, Sandcrawler and Falcon on their own. We had no pictures, worked off a Webtv and had no idea what html was.
When the auctions ended we got almost $1000.00 for it all. We were shocked to find $1,000.00 in our Mailbox a few days later. (we thought they were kidding about the bids, never thought they'd really pay!)
We were hooked but had nothing else to sell. I had a health problem and was not working at the time. I stated listing things I found at the local thrift shop. (my husband thought I was insane when I listed a Kraft Cheesy Mac keychain he was about to toss out. We were astounded when it sold for $9.00)
My fifty cent purchases were bringing in $10.00 or more each.
I worked my way up and have not had to work outside my home since. I was able to heal without being worried about working. I love Ebay!
posted on February 1, 2003 11:33:07 PM new
Great-Aunt Dorothy died. She had a houseful of purple stuff - including walls, drapes, carpeting, furniture, dyed mink stoles, dishes, 10-foot closet filled with size 2 (!!) pink and purple or pink OR purple polyester knit dresses with shoes to match, pottery service for 40 with all the bells and whistles including quadruple 12-piece sets of all the serving pieces. You get the drift.
But there was also amethyst jewelry!
And digging through her kitchen, there was some neat old stuff she'd never used because (you guessed it) it wasn't purple. A Bauer cookie jar in mint condition, etc.
I sold the cookie jar with help from my daughter, the computer whiz, about 4 years ago, had already started buying on ebay, and the jar sold for a bit under $100. I looooved that! I love turning stuff no one wants into CASH. It's still a game, and when it's no longer fun, I'll stop.
Sniping works up a thirst"