Reply With QuoteA 35mm camera, can'tt remember exact cost but no more than a couple of hundred.
Inspired by seikopath's car buying thread.
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What's the most expensive thing you've bought off ebay sight unseen? It doesn't have to have been a watch but a rough idea of how much you paid would be good. Me? Well I'm pretty parsimonious so I'm sure you guys will beat me easily :wink:.
Cheers,
Gary
A 35mm camera, can'tt remember exact cost but no more than a couple of hundred.
A ladies datejust and i never received it :shock:
I rarely play with ebay anymore unless it's me who is selling :wink:
Thinking about it my two current bikes were bought off fleabay. One was around £650 from Edinburgh and the other was over £500 but I can't remember how much more. I do recall it was from the US, I paid around $100 to ship it and I had to pay the dreaded customs charge but it was still an absolute bargain.
Cheers,
Gary
Circa £5k for a vintage Submariner, in fact did that three times - two from the USA and one from Italy, just to add to the excitement!! :P
a hasselblad camera; just won it. By a long shot, the most expensive single item till date.
I bet on the fact that (i) Hasselblads are not faked and (ii) they are built like a tank
Fingers crossed
Originally Posted by GraniteQuarry
+1 a bit less at 4k and all went well but my arse was puckered for about a week waiting for it to arrive
Probably a Reverso Gran Sport which I also sold on ebay (for a tidy profit :D)
"I looked with pity not untinged with scorn upon these trivial-minded passers-by"
£14k pickup truck.
Lots of £2k watches.
Crazy really, your'e sending someone £2k to a foreign country for something you have only seen photos of!
it's all about trust.
Colin.
Roland electronic drums best part of £1k - no risk really they were cash on collection!
About £100 for a mobile phone that was buggered, paypal were no help at all so that was a waste of money, the cheapest thing was only a few pence for a cross trainer only snag collection only and the wife sprung it on me one wednesday night, so instead of watching football it was 2 hours each way to pick this thing up, which ended up never being used and chucked in the garden as a giant ornament until I took it to the tip.
I've sold several cars and bikes worth a fair few quid on there. The last car I sold was a Mondeo, an hour later the guy who bought it rings me up saying the alarm's faulty as it won't stop unless you unlock the car, after 10 minutes of discussion's it turned out he still had the door open and that was why the alarm was going off :roll:
£700 for a laptop. This was in 2005. Top end machine. It still works of course but weighs a ton.
£2500 for a Pam 90,great watch ,sold it 12 mths later for £2750,so a great buy,only watch I wish I'd hung on to :!:
The other half bought a Tiffany bracelet in an auction (I know biggest scam on the bay). Photos and sales pitch were spot on and featured real goods, delivered item was quite convincing, but moody. Got a refund so turned out okay in the end.
£650 on a Speedy Pro.
Wouldn't buy anything dearer.
Cheers,
Neil.
£2000 for a breitling , sweating all the way but it turned out well ,the guy was a wis and called a few times to make sure all was well.wouldn't do it again though.
Brabantia 15 litre flip top bin for the kitchen c/w refill plagy bags!!! .... :?
Porsche 968.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
8) did you go and see it 1st?
No.8) did you go and see it 1st?
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
No.8) did you go and see it 1st?
Eddie
I have seen a few posts like this now, Didn't go and see the car 1st :shock:
Was it a success or did it blow up 10 miles down the road ?
Dave
[quote=watch-nut]No.8) did you go and see it 1st?
Eddie
I have seen a few posts like this now, Didn't go and see the car 1st :shock:
Was it a success or did it blow up 10 miles down the road ?
Dave[/quote:38fxa06k]
It was (and still is) a super car.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Tag Heuer Carrera 1964 Re-edition.
It was apparently bankrupt stock. The seller had a good looking history, but I was still crapping myself until it arrived.
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
£1800 for a brand new dental chair. He brought it to my house. I checked it was good and paid him cash. Excellent and still in use.
Did he use a fork-lift or what?
Bought a few Apple laptops each around £500, all came with extended Apple warranty which I needed to use more than once
Just under £200 for a Garmin GPS watch.
38k for a Range Rover Sport. Car was located over 200 miles away, talked to the guy over the phone sent me loads of photos drove up there and bought it....
I think the most ive spent is £750 on an Orange p7 bike, ive used it a handful of times and its sat in the shed for 2 years :roll:
£260 for two tickets to see Oasis at Hammersmith Apollo in 2005 :roll:
Good gig luckily!
My wife... :D ....thought she was a bargain at the time, but I'm still paying years later!! :D
:lol: She's not called Ting Tong Macadangdang by any chance is she?
Cheers,
Gary
youre having a giraffe intcha????
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
£9000 for a BMW motorcycle and £8500 for a car. I have no qualms about buying or selling Cars or Motorbikes on Ebay - I find it a better vehicle (excuse the pun) than the likes of Autotrader or local rags where you get bombarded with canvass callers.
Around $700USD for a Rolex 7206 rivet bracelet.
Huge Snap-on tool box only a few months old. Absolute bargain it was at £1,200 (£3.5k+ list) Also purchased plenty of crap but thankfully not expensive
For me a car (£2500), although I did go & see/test drive first .. apart from that an SMP; got it really cheap though, it was the guys first sale & no-one bid. I asked to do a face to face, he agreed. So I flew out to Rome, gave him a little of £300 for a 6 month old automatic black dialled SMP on bracelet, with all boxes/papers & then spent the weekend in Rome. The only down side was the box spelt of tobacco smoke; took a while to remove ..
/vince ..
Did he use a fork-lift or what?
white van man..
My current motor: BMW 320Ci Convertible : £17,001
Do I win?
i wonder what the most expensive item ever sold on there was?
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a 405-foot, steel mega-yacht (marketed as a Gigayacht) auctioned by the Fort. Lauderdale, FL based company, 4Yacht and designed by naval architect Frank Mulder of Mulder Design. The yacht was offered up for auction on eBay November 3rd, 2006 with a “buy now” price of $85 million. The price paid your 50% deposit of the full purchase price of $168,000,000.00 total. The sale of the most expensive eBay item coincided with the 46th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Craig Timm, President of 4Yacht Inc, is a strong advocate of using eBay as an additional marketing tool for his company competing in a global market.
4Yacht is at it again, as of January 2007, they are currently auctioning off another one of their Giga-yachts for a deposit of $99 million. Some of the astounding features of the yacht include: a range 16,000 NM, a helicopter garage, and fourteen multi-level VIP suites with panoramic views. If sold on eBay, this year’s edition of the yacht will hold the title of the most expensive item on eBay.
Thats what google brings up anyway
Just about beats my car then :(
The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a 405-foot, steel mega-yacht (marketed as a Gigayacht) auctioned by the Fort. Lauderdale, FL based company, 4Yacht and designed by naval architect Frank Mulder of Mulder Design. The yacht was offered up for auction on eBay November 3rd, 2006 with a “buy now” price of $85 million. The price paid your 50% deposit of the full purchase price of $168,000,000.00 total. The sale of the most expensive eBay item coincided with the 46th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Craig Timm, President of 4Yacht Inc, is a strong advocate of using eBay as an additional marketing tool for his company competing in a global market.
4Yacht is at it again, as of January 2007, they are currently auctioning off another one of their Giga-yachts for a deposit of $99 million. Some of the astounding features of the yacht include: a range 16,000 NM, a helicopter garage, and fourteen multi-level VIP suites with panoramic views. If sold on eBay, this year’s edition of the yacht will hold the title of the most expensive item on eBay.
Thats what google brings up anyway
I got two IBM X30 series laptops off eBay, and a Canon S70 digital camera. Those were the most expensive buys, I think. Some smaller stuff as well - new batteries for said laptops for instance, a PATA harddisk to replace one in another laptop (still have to install that one, actually), one or two memory modules; cheap digital camera battery chargers for travel - that sort of thing.
I'd never buy anything realy, really expensive on eBay. 200 to 300 euros is about my maximum, and even that not often. If I must spend 500 or more on new or lightly used gear, I'd rather go to a real store (even on the web) where I can get some service and guarantee.
£1600.00 Land Rover Disco with 147k on the clock! It was local to me so went to see it and had a test drive - the seller was a fellow Scot who worked for ProDrive and had maintained it himself - nuff said!
Don't think I'd spend that much on eBay if I couldn't check the goods out before parting with the readies...
Bought a mid-Victorian photograph of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, for about 2K from a chap in Texas from e-bay.
Sweet car - did you get the ClubSport - a particular fav of mine. Also long as its has a good service history this is a classic case of buying the seller.No.8) did you go and see it 1st?
Eddie
Andy
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
50€ shirt, but I'm a small-timer + don't use Ebay much.
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