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BUY IT, SELL IT, LOVE IT

March 6th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized

Fantastic! It bloody works! Woo hoo! Why am I excited? Read on…

At the Renault Nissan alliance party at the end of January, I took part in a game of Scalextric (holding a remote control and guiding a toy car around a race track) and won the race. My prize was a Nissan ‘Z’ baseball cap, which was of no use to me since I do not wear head gear of any sorts. So, in order to create the tiniest bit of space in my freezing cold bedroom, I decided that I’d stick it on E-Bay and see how it fared.

Having been a buyer on E-Bay for a year or so, I knew that E-Bay sends emails when you’ve been outbid. Obviously this is from the point of view of a buyer and I had no experience of being an E-Bay seller. Since this was the first item I had ever auctioned on the site, I therefore had no idea that E-Bay doesn’t email you when there has been a bid on your item. You can imagine my surprise and sheer delight, then, when I checked the ‘endofauction’ email from E-Bay this evening, expecting to see that the item had had no bids and remained unsold, only to find that some lovely individual had offered me

  1. 13 Responses to “BUY IT, SELL IT, LOVE IT”

  2. By Wibbler on Mar 6, 2005

    It appears your cap was the subject of fevered bidding too:
    http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=8173816416

  3. By Salina on Mar 7, 2005


  4. By Jonola on Mar 7, 2005

    yep. Cost me nothing, sold it for pure profit. I’m a business man.

  5. By Salina on Mar 8, 2005

    Hmmm….either that or there are some odd people out there.

    Although, there was this programme on BBC1 where they literally managed to sell old rope.

    Seems people will buy anything.

  6. By Jonola on Mar 8, 2005

    I saw that programme! It was the Money Programme (BBC2 I think). That was my inspiration to get off my butt and sell some stuff. It bloody works! Have fun AND make some cash! Utterly splendid.

  7. By Wibbler on Mar 9, 2005

    Utterly. Although I’ve found the worst part of Ebay is the packaging of your sold item. However I tried to wrap a stack of 100 CDRs on a spindle, the recipients still complained.

  8. By Shifty on Mar 9, 2005

    I have recently bought a tie-rack and a an album from e-bay, extremely brilliant…

    I shall now attempt to sell old dvds, and bottles of wine from the spar!

  9. By Mark on Mar 11, 2005

    Incredible - I have two Renault F1 caps that are about to go the same way, one having being ’signed’ by Fernando Alonso. Did you know that there are around ten thousand people in the UK who claim their full time occupation is buying and selling on ebay…

  10. By Salina on Mar 11, 2005

    ‘Signed’…hmmm…did you just take to the hat with a marker pen?

  11. By Jonola on Mar 11, 2005

    you saw the money programme that night too then Mark….

    and Salina… how did you know about the false Alonso thing? Were you secretly spying on us when I signed it for him….?

  12. By Salina on Mar 12, 2005

    The quotation marks may have helped a bit….

  13. By Jonola on Mar 12, 2005

    good deduction. I have now officially been put in my place!

  14. By Salina on Mar 12, 2005

    Aw…lol.

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