YAET: What's the biggest profit margin you sold on ebay for a single item?

[neovan]

How much and what was the item (unless you don't want us to know that it was panties you bought from Target and resold them as "worn by {insert picture here}")?

mine was a hp burner which i profited $125

 

[Spamela]

i won a copy of windows 2000 server in a contest
and sold it for > $500 (pure profit, muhahaha).

 

[Jzero]

Tickets to an event. Profit: $650.

 

[DeadByDawn]

Bought two boxes of OLD casino chips for $.50 each, sold them on ebay for over $2000 total after I split them up and sold individually

 

[minendo]

Sold Office 2k Premium for a $1000 profit before it was on the shelves.

 

[davew0670]

found a georgia tech nodder/ bobblin head for 25 cents and sold it for $475. Also bought an old verdi bird type toy in the box for $1 and sold it for a little over $1000

 

[BlueWeasel]

Back when Evanescence was first becoming huge, I bought 4 tickets for a show on 3/1/2003 for a total of $28 from TicketMaster. Well, the show ended up getting rescheduled and I couldn't make the trip.

I sold the 4 tickets on Ebay for a total of $265 (950% profit)

 

[dquan97]

I got a copy of Windows Small Business Server, and ... (jk)

sold dvds (back in the day) for $20+, my cost was $5

 

[mpitts]

Got Cisco 2621 router for free.

Sold for $799.99.

 

[bubbadu]

Drum Cartiage from work (Staples) on Clearance 1.50 sold for $98
GPS Unit for Palm also on Clearance $10, sold for 100 on ebay

Gotta love first dibs on clearance.

 

[DannyBoy]

cable modem - £70

 

[Anubis]

NSync tickets i won from a radio coontest for 800$ pure cash

 

[virtuamike]

Bought 3 car LCDs for $300 each, sold em for $525 shipped each.

 

[deftron]

Domain Name

Bought for $35 (or whatever it cost to register them back in the day)

Sold for $2000

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Bought a pallet of network equipment at gov't auction (before any 802.11 standards) and sold it on ebay back to the actual manufacturer. $70->$475

Bought a pallet of HP laptop printers, sold about 20 of them on ebay for about $40 each on average. $60->$800

 

[CrazyDe1]

Visual Studio.net at a microsoft launch event - Free

Sold for 850 bucks.

 

[deftron]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
Bought a pallet of network equipment at gov't auction (before any 802.11 standards) and sold it on ebay back to the actual manufacturer. $70->$475

Bought a pallet of HP laptop printers, sold about 20 of them on ebay for about $40 each on average. $60->$800

where do you find out about gov't auctions ?

 

[z0mb13]

I am waiting for Rossman and NFS4 to enter this thread...

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: deftron

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
Bought a pallet of network equipment at gov't auction (before any 802.11 standards) and sold it on ebay back to the actual manufacturer. $70->$475

Bought a pallet of HP laptop printers, sold about 20 of them on ebay for about $40 each on average. $60->$800

where do you find out about gov't auctions ?

My dad was in the AF, so he found out about them while being on base...I went with him. Seems they've pretty much done away with them now, at least here. Everything went to private contracts to liquidate the equipment as far as I know.

 

[Chaotic42]

(Error: Division by Zero)%

I sold a copy of a C++ compiler that I got for free. I got $50 for it.

 

[apac]

nm, misread hehe

 

[halik]

5 SGI 1600sw monitors
bought for 550 a piece, sold for 1200 a piece.

5x500 = 2500 bucks profit

 

[jadinolf]

THe two most profitable things I sold were a saber which cost me $30 sold for $331 and a paperweight which cost me nothing sold for $83.

I wish I had more stuff like that.

 

[murphy55d]

I sold the stock CD player from my Bravada for $117.

 

[Ramma2]

4 copies of win2k I got for free, around 200$ each

5 pen stlye graphing/drawing tablets for the PC i got for free, sold for around 100$ each

<3 ebay