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What's the most money you've made on ebay?

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I bought a box of paintings at an antique store that was going out of business. Got 12 painting for $25. Sold them individually, and got a total of ~$800 for them.
 
Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
do u have to report this income and pay taxes on it?
ive never bought or sold anything on ebay
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You're legally obligated to report it under "Other Income", but rarely does it happen. fyi, income from illegal activities also are taxable.
 
I sold a kotex dispenser for $250. It was in the Ladie's room at the NY Public Library and my Mom took it home.
It sold loose tampons for a nickle and was pretty old. Too bad she didn't take a few more, but it was heavy.
 
I sold a video camera that I paid $2,100 for $1950 after using it for two years.. That's like renting it for $75 a year - I think that deal worked in my favor 😉
 
I would buy computer hardware realize I didnt like/want/need it and sell it for more then I paid for it... better then loosing 15% on an RMA!🙂
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
I sold a video camera that I paid $2,100 for $1950 after using it for two years.. That's like renting it for $75 a year - I think that deal worked in my favor 😉
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What camera? Some 3ccd unit I imagine?

Sold some stuff, but, after ebay fees and s&h, and paypal fees it can be tough to make money on std.wholesale stuff. Target has done me well though, as has OD and some of the other coupon-enabled office stores.

My best score was some DVD+RW drives from OD. Bought 3, sold 2 that paid for the 3rd. But that's just luck, couldn't make a living doing that.

 
Made about $800 in a month or so, selling Diablo 2 equipment, then the hacks came and the values went way down.
 
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i used to get columbia house dvd memberships and sell the dvds on ebay for much more than i paid
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How much can you potentially make off this? I was thinking of hiring a 16 year old kid to sit and make 8 columbia house accounts a day once the cycle got going, get the initial 10, buy 3 more at an average of 6 bucks a DVD, and sell them for about 15 each. Make another few bucks by shipping media mail. If he can work 2 hours a day and sell about 8 DVDs a day, that's 40 bucks of profit a day.
 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Am I the only one that has never bought/sold anything on ebay? 😕
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yeah, i was the other one!
now in the last week or 2, i've bought 2 things from ebay 😀
 
Originally posted by: CT2TXtech
I sold windows server 2000 and 5 additional CALS. Got $700.00 for it. I got it for free. 🙂
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i won Win2k server & 5 CALS in a contest & sold it for nearly $600.
i won Win2k & sold it for nearly $200.
i won an nForce motherboard & sold it for $90.

haven't won much lately, though, that i don't want/need.
 
Originally posted by: CrazyDe1
Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i used to get columbia house dvd memberships and sell the dvds on ebay for much more than i paid
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How much can you potentially make off this? I was thinking of hiring a 16 year old kid to sit and make 8 columbia house accounts a day once the cycle got going, get the initial 10, buy 3 more at an average of 6 bucks a DVD, and sell them for about 15 each. Make another few bucks by shipping media mail. If he can work 2 hours a day and sell about 8 DVDs a day, that's 40 bucks of profit a day.
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i forget, it was a long time ago...when people actually wanted the Armageddon Criterion haha. Columbia is much stricter now, back then i could have signed up without providing a SSN (which means they couldn't be able to find me if i just skipped on payments, not that I would ever hehe) or even a credit card. They were desperate for a subscriber base back then.

If you wanna do it now, it is probably still decent profit.
 
Originally posted by: dman
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
I sold a video camera that I paid $2,100 for $1950 after using it for two years.. That's like renting it for $75 a year - I think that deal worked in my favor 😉
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What camera? Some 3ccd unit I imagine?

Sold some stuff, but, after ebay fees and s&h, and paypal fees it can be tough to make money on std.wholesale stuff. Target has done me well though, as has OD and some of the other coupon-enabled office stores.

My best score was some DVD+RW drives from OD. Bought 3, sold 2 that paid for the 3rd. But that's just luck, couldn't make a living doing that.
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Sony trv900... I sold it right before the trv950 came out 😉
 
I forgot about this one- troma (b-movies maker) had a wacky deal where you could order as many DVD movies from their catalog as you'd like for 25 cents plus $2.00 shipping.. So I paid $2.25 each for 20 somewhat dvds.. I sold the collection for $250 plus shipping
 
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