eBay PWNAGE! (Or, what amazing deals have you gotten on eBay. Especially 'Buy It Now')

bendertiger on 12/07/2011 - 20:25

Hahahah!

I can't help but have a grin as wide as my arms right about now…

Used Sims 3 PC stand-alone copy on ebay, buy it now for $10.50 including postage from a pawn shop selling their crap on ebay!

What other stupidly good bargains have people snatched on ebay? I also think that the deal above was only listed for a few minutes…damn, what are the chances :)

(Oh, I also pirated Sims3 through torrents, couldn't get it to work, only wanted to pirate it to see if it was worth buying, for $10.50, IT IS :)

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  • gmail92 on 12/07/2011 - 22:01
    +6

    Hardly Used Nikon D40X DSLR + 18-55 lens - A little over 200$ :)

  • thepigs on 12/07/2011 - 22:08
    +3

    I sniped a Netcomm NB6 ADSL modem for $5.50 off eBay once. The seller said he would take 3% off the price if i paid direct deposit. I didnt though, I paid paypal using credit card. I felt a bit guilty about sniping some guy's 6 month old modem for $5, which made the bargain bittersweet. He shipped the modem in a box he had bought from Auspost and everything (when shipping my crap on ebay I reuse the boxes I get other mail order items in). I'm sorry to you where ever you are, modem guy. Its a great modem though, thanks.

    • dowanted on 13/07/2011 - 12:58

      Haha, I love that you still feel guilty about it!

      I'm sure he was probably happier with the $5, though, if he was selling a modem for that price. He's obviously a simple pleasures kind-of-guy. And yeah, he could have made more money from the sale, but that would have taken time out of his simple pleasures kind-of-life to research how much he should sell it for.

      You like my story? :P

    • furythree on 19/07/2011 - 11:13

      i have one for sale, but now that i read ur post…gunna raise the min price

  • ESEMCE on 13/07/2011 - 09:07
    +1

    1.5m tall Steel speaker stands for $5 pick up..
    Each stand weighed 20Kg (without adding sand), they were home-made, but as good quality as my small manufactured set (that I found on the side of the road with a nice set of bookshelf speakers).
    Sadly, they were far too big to use in my place and I ended up giving them to my cousin for use in his Studio.
    The seller was bitterly disappointed and wondered if I'd "hacked' the system to get them for such a cheap price since I was the only bidder. I just told him I put in a bid for $20 and no-one outbid me from the starting $5 price-point (which was true, albeit my bid was in the final 5 seconds).

    On the flip-side, my best ever sell was for a Powerbook 1400c.. I bought it for $100, and sold it 12 months later for $350! Since it was pick-up only I wasn't worried about being scammed, but I was surprised when the buyer very happily came to pick up and paid. He was so happy cause his Powerbook 1400 had just died. For the life of me, I still can't work out who else was bidding that high to push up the price.. Prices at the time were about $120 for the same model interstate.

  • Taita on 13/07/2011 - 09:12

    took my son to the shops to try on school shoes by Clarks. really nice shoes but they were $120 dollars. came back home empty handed. logged on ebay and found exact same new shoes in the right size for 25 delivered.

    Also a few years ago, bought a new sealed Kaiser Baas 11 inch digital photo frame for $60 delivered.

    this year went to Bunkers store to buy bedroom furniture for son. the configuration we liked was $2650. confirmed delivery details and came back home to measure room dimensions. checked ebay, same configuration in the wood finish we liked was $600 plus $20 delivery. it was only 6 months old with reciepts and not a single scratch. bought it and cancelled the store order.

    … where would I be without ebay…

  • Taita on 13/07/2011 - 09:18
    +3

    On the selling side of ebay, I once bought a folding backpack stroller from toysrus for $40 (on sale I think), used it for a year (including taking it on 2 overseas trips, it was well used!), then listed it on ebay for 0.99c auction. lots of bidding and eventually sold for $80 to a seller who asked it to be posted at his expense! and they left really nice feedback.

  • huntress_love on 13/07/2011 - 11:06

    got a stick blender for $3.30 at auction. was using for soap so didn't need a new one.

    • Ughhh on 13/07/2011 - 13:12
      +2

      Soap? Why do you need blend soap?

      • dowanted on 13/07/2011 - 13:13
        +5

        Because sometimes in life you have to blend soap.

        • Ughhh on 14/07/2011 - 12:12

          So its like the 'when life gives you lemons' saying, except its 'when life gives soap, you blend it'.

      • Geewhizz on 14/07/2011 - 06:49

        If you're making it yourself it needs to be blended

        • Ughhh on 14/07/2011 - 12:11

          But Huntress is blending soap- a product that is already made, not making soap D:

      • johnn on 14/07/2011 - 16:43
        +4

        “The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world"- Tyler Durden

        • moooooooo on 19/07/2011 - 17:57

          So if you have enough soap, people will fear and respect you? This must be the origin of the phrase "Cleanliness is next to Godliness"… ;-P

  • altomic on 13/07/2011 - 12:52
    +2

    I bought a piece of very rare + collectable sports memorabilia with a $50 BIN and then upon receiving it I immediately listed it internationally with a BIN of $500 which was snapped up in 12 hours by an american.

    • [Deactivated] on 13/07/2011 - 13:29

      what was the item out of curiosity, don't have to be too specific :D

      • altomic on 13/07/2011 - 14:24

        baseball card.

        it had been listed for around 4 minutes when I hit the BIN.

        received it 2 days later. sold it that evening.

        • IVI on 13/07/2011 - 14:41
          -1

          You probably got taken to the cleaners!

          Yanks are known for paying great sums for the right sports card.

          The typical way for a kid to get a nice car is to save cards - from an early age (even a star's "rookie" cards are valued there) - & later trade a small box of cards for a SHINY NEW CAR! :-)

        • altomic on 13/07/2011 - 16:26
          +1

          you have no idea what you are talking about.
          I hit a BIN 4 minutes into an auction and then relist with a BIN of $500 and you assume I've probably been taken to the cleaners?!

          you're clueless.

          go buy an genuine iphOne off that guy who sends you mispelled emails.

  • Mikinoz on 13/07/2011 - 13:00

    Lately projectors and projector screens, its the selling that makes a killing sometimes

  • IVI on 13/07/2011 - 14:37
    +2

    A HK vendor offered "Panasonic DMC-TZ10" for $272 including S+H & an 8 GB memory card, along with a few low-quality accessories.

    After I agreed to buy it, they asked if I would accept the non-PAL US-version (SZ-8?), instead.

    I compared the versions of this excellent camera & found that I'd be losing PAL-compatibility (which I didn't really care about), but - as they didn't have what they'd offered - I asked for a $30 discount before accepting the "downgraded" package.

    that brought the price down to $242 (with all the extras & incl S+H).

    At the time, the TZ10 (which i didn't get) was offered locally for ~ Au $500 (dunno what they actually get for them around town… ie, street prices).

    I love the camera! And would have another one for a family members, but I doubt I'll find a TZ10 at anywhere near the price I paid for its non-PAL US version.

    A little flexibility pays! :-)

    PS Most HK vendors list BOTH version model names, so they send you whatever they have in-stock when you buy; be on the lookout for any who promise EXACTLY what you want, & hope they can't deliver.

    Remind them that eBay doesn't look kindly on vendors who can't deliver what they offered. & see what you can haggle by way of discount.

  • cloudy on 13/07/2011 - 18:43

    My friend got the galaxy tab from telstra for 299 & sold it for 400 2nd hand on eBay lol

  • stumo on 13/07/2011 - 22:35
    -1

    I got a used Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 for $300 BIN off a big local eBay PC/laptop retailer. Decided I didn't really need it, sold it a week later for $900 BIN eBay local. It was just a case of the original seller not knowing what it was worth.

    The good thing is that stuff that sells for close to a grand overseas on eBay can be put out of reach for locals due to customs tax. So that means slightly lesser quality/value local items get a couple of hundred dollar boost due to that.

    eg. That model CF-19 goes for around US$800 overseas, but with shipping etc. its too much of a risk if you get stung with GST etc. on import. Therefore the local one was worth a slight premium. But in this case I also heavily pwned that original seller.

  • BartholemewH on 13/07/2011 - 22:40
    +2

    A family member bought a big box of antique stuff at auction for around $10 (can't remember exactly, it wasn't more than that). In the bottom of the box was a tortoise shell calling card case.

    Put it on Ebay. Had a lot of people watching. Ebay took it down because it was an animal product. Relisted it as a faux* tortoise shell calling card case (*there isn't really such a thing).

    Long story short, it sold for somewhere around $1100 - $1200. Around 11,000% profit.

    Lol :)

  • Tal_Shiar on 14/07/2011 - 00:22

    I put an old iPod through the wash and it wouldn't work, left in a drawer for about 6 months and one day tried to charge it and hey presto it worked and thanks to the wash cycle was really clean, so I out it on eBay and sold it for around $80 and the buyer even said they liked my taste in music lol

    • furythree on 19/07/2011 - 11:11
      +1

      omg that was you!
      reporting you to the accc

      …jokes

  • [Deactivated] on 14/07/2011 - 00:59

    a hell of a lot of nintendo 64 games for amazing prices.

    tip to anyone starting to collect retro games… if it's a BIN auction and its been available for more than 24 hours, its not that great a deal. the market is fierce and ebay is crawling with nerds like me trying to relive their childhood.

    • wisc on 14/07/2011 - 15:39

      one word man:
      ROMs
      google it :P

      nah im sure you know and feel its not the same… but you could save yourself a small fortune… i've got an origional atari sitting around somewhere…

      • kasumi on 14/07/2011 - 16:53

        yeah… EMU/ROMS are the way to go

        • [Deactivated] on 14/07/2011 - 19:44

          I could save myself a small fortune yeah, but having it on my shelves, the sweet sound of a cartridge being clicked into place, the heavy click of flicking that power switch, blowing the dust out of the cartridge and having it load up after a tense moment… it just can't be beaten.

          I was toying with the idea of buying a dingoo (handheld emulator) and buying the games still as the systems can take up a lot of place.

          I compare it to owning antiques vs filling your house full of copperart.

  • kingsville on 14/07/2011 - 17:01

    4cm thick solid jarrah dining table = BIN $200

    11x jarrah table tops (also 4cm thick), bought at auction for $180 and I made into a great lowline entertainment unit.

    And $1 auction (delivered) for a used snow jacket - mint condition, great quality and perfect fit

  • andyman1908 on 18/07/2011 - 13:51

    I picked up four new pleather white kitchen stools (not the normal ones, these were shaped like an “L” from side on and pretty padded) for $90 bucks. They were listed at $40 each with 4 available. Tried to low ball it further and ask for a better deal if I pick up 3 of them but thought I’d not chance it and bought 3 of them before she responded back to my message. She replied back to my message and said she couldn’t do a discount, but would chuck in the 4th for free. So ended up with 4 stools for $90 bucks when they are generally $200 for two plus delivery. Bargain I say!

  • 17833 on 21/07/2011 - 04:28

    My aunty, in her first attempt at ebay, put a dining room cupboard up for 90cents buy it now when she meant to put $90 dollars. She had to honour it, so someone got a very good bargain there!

  • BuyoTheCat on 21/07/2011 - 11:39

    i bought quite a few leather jackets on ebay for between $20 and $50.
    awesome chick magnets! best buys ever.

    • wisc on 25/07/2011 - 16:38
      +1

      eeeeaaaahh

      http://tiny.cc/rb94o

    • King Tightarse on 27/07/2011 - 14:22

      Ah,yes.. .recycled un-washable clothes
      ~the sweet smell of other people's B.O.~~
      "chick magnets" Irony? Hope so..

  • pinktasha on 26/07/2011 - 20:42

    just got a Mountain Buggy Urban elite pram with bassinette, rain and sun cover for $26..these things retail at over $300..Sellers really need to put decent photo's up..in the photo the thing looked old and dirty..picked it up and its in excellent condition…
    on the selling side I picked up 6 Nokia phones last year from target for $24 each..can't remember the model..sold them all for $100 each =)

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