99p Start Ebay Auctions - Any winners?

[Hertz]

This got me thinking tonight on my usual ebay trawl for chod. Then it came to me in a flash, has anyone actually won a car on ebay for 99p? Or what is the lowest figure you have won an auction for and what was it?

 

I suppose even if you did win a car for 99p the chances of the seller actually letting it go for 99p is the next stumbling block.

 

There was a rumour in the Renault Alpine world that some lucky sole won a GTA non turbo for a quid on ebay a few years back being sold by a pissed off lady who's husband was banging someone else.

 

 

[HillmanImp]

Not won, but I once sold a Peugeot 309 on ebay for £6. 31 on ebay but the buyer never got in contact.

 

This was in 2004 too which just shows that ebay mongs are not a new phenomenon.

[Matt]

 a pissed off lady who's husband was banging someone else.

 

So surely legally speaking it is still his car then?

 

Not won, but I once sold a Peugeot 309 on ebay for £6. 31 on ebay but the buyer never got in contact.

 

This was in 2004 too which just shows that ebay mongs are not a new phenomenon.

 

Would you have actually let it go for that much though? Jokes on him if you would!

[320touring]

Bought an e34 525i for 77 quid...

[Junkman]

£28.03 for an LDV Pilot with new MoT.

 

[castros_bro]

I used buy/repair/sell small bikes/mopeds and used a bid timer program which was preset to bid a fraction of a second before the end of the auction, I'd set up a load of £4.99p bids on local-ish two wheel shite often ending at inconvenient times and win at least a couple every week. For a while it was lucrative then they changed the auction ending settings so stopped it working.

[willswitchengage]

Losers: the 99p store?

[Cavcraft]

Citroen BX petrol, £1.60. My mate even got it going and we drove it home too. I'd have got it for 99p but a bloke on the forum bid it to £1.40 for a laugh.  

[dean36014]

Got a morris Minor for £10. best non car item was a kirby vacuum for 1p.

[chaseracer]

£28.03 for an LDV Pilot with new MoT.

 

 

You woz robbed M8.  That decimal point should be a notch further left... 

 

 

(Other tediously obvious "jokes" are available...)

[dave21478]

I sold a 405 estate through the aberdeen car auction years back. I cant remember what it went for, but by the time the auction fees had been subtracted, i was left with £4. 

[EssDeeWon]

My lowest is £151 for a 1988 Golf 1.8 Auto, drove spot on and breezed through its pending MOT. 

 

Used it to drive around central london when I lived up there, it was GR12 and never needed anything more than a puncture repairing one day!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

There was a rumour in the Renault Alpine world that some lucky sole won a GTA non turbo for a quid on ebay a few years back being sold by a pissed off lady who's husband was banging someone else.

Versions of that Urban Myth have been doing the rounds since long before ebay ,the internet or possibly the motor car existed.

The first I remember involved an E-Type for a fiver that the owners wife was selling and sending the proceeds on to him and his new partner, but others before and since crop up. In the American versions it's often a Corvette involved and I seem to remember an Esprit a few years ago.

It no doubt has been around forever with horses and even wooly mammoths.

[Junkman]

You woz robbed M8.  That decimal point should be a notch further left... 

 

 

(Other tediously obvious "jokes" are available...)

 

Yeah, but you always get shafted as a bleedin furrinna.

I find it ominous when I'm not able to spot it right away, because then there must be a major bollocking hidden somewhere.

[HillmanImp]

Would you have actually let it go for that much though? Jokes on him if you would!

 

Yeah, I thought it was my fault for not putting a reserve on. I figured 'That's the way the auction works isn't it'........

[ruffgeezer]

Versions of that Urban Myth have been doing the rounds since long before ebay ,the internet or possibly the motor car existed.

The first I remember involved an E-Type for a fiver that the owners wife was selling and sending the proceeds on to him and his new partner, but others before and since crop up. In the American versions it's often a Corvette involved and I seem to remember an Esprit a few years ago.

It no doubt has been around forever with horses and even wooly mammoths.

 

This one is true though;

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4122842.stm

[New POD]

Occassionally I'll put in 10 quid and see what's available within 2 miles of me.

 

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/local-ebay-deals/

 

Best was 10 books on the Beatles which I'm gradually giving to my dad (2 at a time) on birthdays and Christmas. The new cost of the 10 is over £250, and only one looks second hand.

[Taff]

I got a Mazda 323 for £4.90 in Ipswich a couple of years ago. I didn't want it and never collected it but got in touch with the owner, sent him a tenner in exchange for an ignition key and a colour photocopy of the V5C.

Then gave it to a bloke I didn't like at work as his secret santa, along with a note saying it needed moving that weekend or would become subject to a £25 a day storage fee.

[purplebargeken]

Volvo 440 in white. £27, lobbed on a rear caliper (used) chucked it in for an MOT and it passed. Sold it for a couple of hundred a month later. Nice car actually, very comfy. Buyer came from Liverpool.

[Cavcraft]

Occassionally I'll put in 10 quid and see what's available within 2 miles of me.

 

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/local-ebay-deals/

 

Best was 10 books on the Beatles .

 

 

Firelighters and newspapers are much cheaper, but I can see you'd get more fun burning that shit.

[greengartside]

Won a genuine Fiesta RS1800 with front-end damage for £51 once. I just needed it for the engine/gearbox/ECU. Ran faultlessly with only 81k miles on it.

 

Also won a Porsche 944 tailgate for 99p. Again, exactly as described and was a perfect example.

[Lord Sterling]

The only time I bought a car off eBay was the White E-reg Sterling. I won it for £360 and set off to Notts only to find the geezer wasn't at his registered address, I found out where the fella was eventually when he sent me his new address so got the car for £300.

 

My mate, VeryTallBrad won a J-reg Rover Sterling off eBay for £30. He found out that it was featured in a motoring magazine when it was new.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I won a new gearbox for the XR2 for 1p,when I got there he didn't want the penny so got it for free. I know I could of given him something but I'm a tight twat so didn't

[Lankytim]

I once won an E reg Volvo 240 saloon for £12, the guy refused to sell it for that much so I gave him £20. When I collected I found the steering rack had been stolen. It was weighed in.

[Micrashed]

Bought a BX estate for £50, had a blazing row with the wife about it, paid for it and then gave it to Vanny who got it through an MOT and then sort of sold it to another one of my mates. Who hated it.

[beko1987]

I've won many a dyson for 99p, spent the usual £3.40 on then and sold them for £60-65!

 

Never a car though...

[New POD]

Firelighters and newspapers are much cheaper, but I can see you'd get more fun burning that shit.

 

 

oh I hate the Beatles as much as I hate Cilla Black, and the Sun, but my dad spent my childhood putting on a fake scoouse accent, and being a twat, so if I can inflict them on him and his pretence that everything from my beloved city is great it's all good to me.

[Dave_Q]

Got a couple of E30s in the £100-200 range in around 2004.

 

Cheapest I can recall was a K11 Micra 1.3 that had long t&t but needed a gearbox. It had lost all it's oil and the AA had patched it up and refilled it.

 

£102.

 

Drove it back from Newport to Nottingham sounding like it might explode at any minute, got the box replaced and sold it for a moderate profit.

[New POD]

I'm sitting on a perfectly good desk chair which cost me 87p, the only problem was that it was in Nottingham, and I had gone to derby for the week in the Mx5. I managed to fit it in by putting the top down, but then couldn't use 2nd gear and had a 20 mile drive in weather that was starting to spit.

[Taff]

I'm sitting on a perfectly good desk chair which cost me 87p, the only problem was that it was in Nottingham, and I had gone to derby for the week in the Mx5. I managed to fit it in by putting the top down, but then couldn't use 2nd gear and had a 20 mile drive in weather that was starting to spit.

 

that makes me grin, why do we put up with stuff like that? I did it with a spitfire bootlid, won it and went to collect it in my spitfire. Of course, you can't fit a spitfire bootlid into a spitfire, can you? Unless you unzip the rear window and have it sticking out through there behind the seats. Acting like a 'kin huge windbreak and making your teeth chatter all the way from Watford to Bristol.

 

we must be f**kin' mad