Comments on: Most surprising eBay sale?

By: Richard Berry

Richard Berry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:06:47 +0000

I purchased small metal building, about 3″ tall, broken at the very top, dent in the side and a lot of paint wear, for fifty cents at a Kiwani’s thrift store. On the base of the building it said “PanPacific International Expo, San Francisco 1915. This was one of the first things I sold on Ebay. Listed it with a start price of 1.99+$4.00 shipping, thinking I might get $5 for it. through out the seven days of the listings, i got offers if I would end it early, but didnt understand. It got to $75 and boy did i get excited, then $125, $300 and finally $371.66. This was the most exciting things i sold, probably because it was one of the first of many. There were $1.99 airplane bought at Goodwill store solld for $99, two signs bought at yard sale for $10 each, sold for $150 each, auction catalog for Steve McQueen estate, bout for $20 sold for over $300. I usually find one great item a week.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:01:53 +0000

Well, ONCE at the end of a MASSIVE Antique Show in Hamar, Norway I was on my way out of the building when a pair of cuff-links caught my eye in them middle of a table full of stuff. The cuff-links had the 3 crowns which were typical of Sweden. Since this was Norway, I figured to get them for a good price: 25 Norwegian kroner was good enough for me as these were SPORRONG cuff-links. I listed them on ebay starting at 9.99 USD. I was SHOCKED when they finished at 95.00 USD to somebody in Los Angeles!

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:25:11 +0000

I once bought a Bass Pro Limited Edition t-shirt at a garage sale for .50. I thought it was a nice looking t-shirt but didn’t think it was anything special. I put it up on ebay and to my surprise it sold for $53!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:11:22 +0000

I bought a complete set of Time Life Civil War books for $10. (yep!!) and sold them in 2 days for OVER $150. !!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:24:14 +0000

I live in Missouri and I went with my Mom to a Flea Market in MN. A lady had a whole wall of old disposable diapers from the 1970’s. I hadn’t even started to sell on eBay yet but I bought a few oxes at $2.00 a box to put in a yard sale. Thankfully, I only sold one box. I listed a box on eBay at midnight and by 8:00 a.m. I had my first question about the box. He asked if it really said Kimbies on the box. (I didn’t even have a picture of it.) He said he would easily give me $40 for it and it ended at $56 without a picture. I was floored as I didn’t think anyone would want old diapers. After I got pictures with my listings some of the Pampers sold for over $100 a box. When I saw that this was a big seller I got ahold of the lady back in MN. She said she had alot of these diapers left and she wanted to get rid of them. So…I drove over 725 miles back to MN and met this lady to get the diapers. She said if I would take them all she would sell them to me for $1.00 a box! When we were done I had the back of my truck full of boxes of diapers. I think I got at least 100 boxes. About 8 years later I still have some of those boxes of diapers to sell. Once I saw a box of old diapers sell for over $900 on eBay. I wish that one had been one of mine.

By: Gene Herod

Gene Herod — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:45:27 +0000

Terry, it was fun to look thru the replies you have rec’d. I once bought an unusual looking cigarette lighter for 50 cents. It said “True Blue Beer” on it. I couldn’t find any info on the brand and I put it in a drawer. A year or two later, I looked on the internet again and found that it was a small brewery in New England. I listed it and the bidding went up to around $8.00 and I was happy. I became happier in the last few minutes of the auction when the bidding went up to the final selling price of $165.00. I shipped it to the winning bidder in the same town where the brewery was located.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:03:21 +0000

I’ve sold pharmaceutical sales rep items, known as “drug rep pens” for upwards of $20. These are the kinds of pens you pick up at the doctor’s office to fill out all those forms with the drug’s name on them. Drug reps (salesmen) give these free to the doctor’s office to get them to prescribe their medication over the competition’s.

Looking forward to reading the book. Thanks.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:49:02 +0000

I sold over $18,000 worth of AOL floppy’s and disc on eBay, the original floppy’s go from $20 to $50, the 1.0 from $9 to $20, I sold one that was a 9.0 in a wooden case for $122. I have also sold promo credit cards, the ones you get in the mail. What next?????

By: Nathan Popham

Nathan Popham — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:26:54 +0000

I found a box of old computer games that was about to be thrown out. (In this case, old was King’s Quest era, or 80s and 90s, back when they had 5.25″ disks, 3.5″ disks, or both.) I put a couple up on eBay, and one sold for $91! The average I’ve been getting is about $30 per game, and I’m not even through the box yet.

By: jennifer fulwiler

jennifer fulwiler — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:23:49 +0000

i have sold many packs of creative memories(scrapbooking items) stickers, paper, die cutseven scrapbooks all there products are pretty pricey but i usually only got about a 1/4th of their retail until i broke up the packs and started selling a few of each pieces into small lots and selling but doubling sometimes tripling my money, Most of the lots i make over retail price for/