99p Start Ebay Auctions - Any winners?

[Cavcraft]

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.

 

 

Was that the one on a farm somewhere, possibly near Widnes?

[Micrashed]

Was that the one on a farm somewhere, possibly near Widnes?

Yeah, that was the one, I ended up sleeping in the garden shed for a couple of nights - actually it wasnt that bad.

[Parcgwyn]

Won a bonnet for £1 off a  Passat, exactly the same colour as the Passat I had just purchased with a dented bonnet. Was able to pick the bonnet up on my way home from picking up the car.

[dave j]

My best ever deal was an E reg Polo for 1p! It was advertised as a non runner for spares or repairs with no pic and a crap description. I felt really smug handing over the money! To be fair i did give him £10 for the remianing tax! It had 6 months MOT and all that was wrong was a knackered alternator that I fixed for free as i had spares.

I cashed in the scene tax when i sold it though, as i sprayed it matt black and covered it in stickers so it sold for £225. This was about 8 years ago though, before the whole world started using ebay...

[purplebargeken]

Bought a bonnet for my Landie 110. I had to pick it up from some small village past and to the right of Cov. Wouldn't fit in the amica so I tied it to the roof with some borrowed rope and some carpet on the roof. It didn't work too well and I had to drive with one hand holding the bonnet on the roof. I gave up at Cov and dumped it at a mets place until I drove up in the Landie. Got the bonnet for about a tenner so that was good.

[stephen01]

purchased a random triumph auto box for 99p no idea why i bid on it, don't even have an auto! sold it after the wife was nagging me about it being the side of the house for 3 weeks, sold it for about 28 quid.. 

[xtriple]

Wae at the car auctions years ago and there was nothing I fancied so just hanging about talking to mates and having a laugh at the mug punters and the prices they were paying when an early Passat estate came through, loads of tax and Mot and while it was as dull as possible paintwise (that dire pale blue a lot were in) no rot or bad dents.

 

Couldn't get a bid and kept coming down and down, when it got to a quid I gave the auctioneer a 'pity' bid and the bastard knocked it down to me! Granted there were fees (£16 I seem to recall) but I wasn't bothered. There was three quarters of a tank of petrol in it, good tyres, loads of history in the dashboard and while it was mucky, it was all right.

 

Used it for months, helped a mate move with it carrying wardrobes in the back, lent it to people, thrashed it everywhere, taught my son to drive around a carpark in it - generally abused it. Did check the oil occasionally though (it never needed any!) and finally sold it for a few hundred quid when the mot was nearly out.

[Alan_Green]

• Bought a MK2 Shogun GLS with a winch bull bar/bumper fitted from new.  

Seller also handed over a bubble wrapped package containing the original brand new bumper. For 9 years he had stored it in various garages and loft spaces as he moved from Belgium to Spain to Portugal and back to the UK. I then spent a further 8 years doing the same thing dragging it from home to home, country to country.

One day I decided to give Ebay a go and as I had exported the Shogun by then, decided that this 17-year pampered 25kg lump of metal (with about a million air miles) would be just the thing.

Sold for 99p! 

Bubble wrap was probably worth a tenner.

Fast forward 2 years and I now own another MK2 Shogun GLS.  Want it back!

[Dave_Q]

Just remembered another one.

 

Bedford rascal, £56.

Advertised as just out of test, what they meant was just failed test on galloping rot to the strut tops. Didn't weld at the time so left it in the car park of my flats for 2 years being used as a shed, before reselling on ebay for 80 quid.

[plasticvandan]

skoda favorit estate at car auction,won it for £40, paid the £20 deposit,drove home with the intention of going back for it,then decided couldnt be arsed so left it haha

[Hertz]

Some good ones there guys. The BX for £1.60 probably wins it! 

 

I'm not in the same league, the only thing I won on ebay for 99p was a G plan cocktail cabinet which we bought just for the glass shelf for our cabinet. Sold it on for £15 through ebay again which was a nice profit.

[Ghosty]

I bought my wireless mouse on eBay for £0.01 - £1.51 after post, the poor seller even made a loss - £2.60 for post.

Never had a car off it - I haven't been that brave* yet.

[brickwall]

I seem to sell lots for 99p and rarely get a purchase fro 99p