What's your biggest bargains.

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I'll start it off with a few I can think of. It can be anything.

Barbour International Bikers suit bought in a jumble sale for £7 sold on Ebay for £80.

Genuine Honda Roof box/bars, used once, ridiculous dealer price of nearly £600, bought on Ebay for £27.

A non working tatty old model steam locomotive hidden amongst a box of old radio parts/valves/morse code equipment at an auction. Bought for £25.sold on Ebay for £105.
 
Last year I managed to pick up a 30D with 4000 actuations, a sigma 17-70, Hoya pro UV and Hoya pro polarizer for £375:eek: Sold the Sigma and filters on here for £200 so my second 30D only cost me £175:woot:
 
Three Racing Puma brochures picked up for free from Ford Dealership. Sold on ebay for £35 each.
Racing Puma posters picked up free at Motorshow years ago. Sold 2 on ebay, £20 and £25.
Ford Brochure for Ford Cougar Born to be Wild advert. Picked up free. Sold 2 £37 and £25.
Items bought.
Model of James Thompsons BTCC Honda Accord with signed display box lid. Bought it for 99p on ebay. Gave it to my workmate as his name is also James Thompson.
Jaguar F1 Leather jacket for my son. Retailed at £160. Bought on ebay for £32.00. Doesn't look like it was ever worn.
When I bought my most recent Panasonic Camera they were retailing at over £250 even on ebay. I won/bought it in an ebay auction and managed to get it for £150 brand new.
I've bought loads of stuff on ebay. I consider them bargains,my wife tends to consider them as junk. :lol:
 
Just picked up an old Vivitar 285 flashgun for £12...I thought that was pretty good...but I don't really know what I'm on about :lol:
 
2001 audi a4 gmbh body kit, £4800
 
A guy at work went to an IT show about 9 years ago and won a graphics card, he knew nothing about the innards of a PC so asked me if I wanted it for £50.

I bought it then found out it was a specialised CAD card so I sold it for £300 on one of the newsgroups,this was pre ebay or pre me hearing about it.
 
Not a massive bargain but one that I am extremely pleased with....

I went into the Henri Lloyd outlet shop in my home town and they had jacket in there marked down from £100 to £25 because of a mark on the back.

After being told by the assistant that the mark was tailors chalk I took the gamble and bought it.

15 mins with a sponge and warm water, the mark was gone and I was well chuffed. :)
 
Early days of QXL won a 3 night half board stay (with a bottle of wine each night too) for two at the Wellington in Boscastle for £99. At the time the 'a la carte' evening meal was £75 a head alone. Had a great 4 days in and around Boscastle with my wife :thumbs:

Best photographic bargain was a number of years ago on ebay, bought a 4 head Elinchrom outfit 3x 500s and a 1250 with all stands, umbrellas, softboxes, cables, case, snoot, barndoors, reflectors, backgrounds and more. I had to go to London to collect but I paid £300 for the lot. It was worth about £2500 at the time . Used it for a few years and then sold it all for £1000.

So how did I get it for that?

Well the seller had it listed under the wrong category and had spelt Elinchrom incorrectly. I was doing a search and in my haste also typed Elinchrom incorrectly and it brought up the auction. I bid a max of £1000 and won it a couple of days later for the start price of £300 as nobody else that might have been interested saw the auction.

Moral of this story, make sure you advertise in the correct category and make sure of your spelling before you hit the finalise button :lol:
 
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