I love ebay

Never been on eBay. Can I have a simple overview of how it works please. ?

I buy all the time on eBay. I also sell stuff.
My wardrobe is cleared out like never before.

Today I received a new boyfriend type cardigan that cost me £5 plus post. Love it. It would cost me more that £5 in petrol to go to a shopping centre and back. In turn I put 5 items from my wardrobe onto eBay for sale.

Tonight I am wrapping 4 items to post tomorrow. Items that have languished unlooked at for far too long.
Anything not fitting properly or that I've gone off ....is sold.
There is a certain satisfaction when the coathangers swish freely on the rail.

I agree, Marmight. I used to sell quite a lot of stuff on eBay, (I quite enjoyed the excitement of watching for bidders), but then as time went on, I realised I was making very little money by it. When they started to take a percentage of the postage costs received, I decided to stop selling. Still enjoy a good browse though.

I have sold a few things on eBay but have now decided it really isn't worth it what with commission, postage, time and effort. Buying on eBay is an entirely different thing and I have to ask myself if I really need what I am bidding for

I have bought 483 items from Ebay in the last 12 months! I have never sold anything either, Greybuster, it is about time I plucked up the courage to learn. I just hate going shopping, so every little item I want is purchased on line. It is great to see the complete range of a product in price order. Today I chose birthday cards for the whole year, searching under subjects applicable to the recipients, including football, hiking, badminton, macaroons, dog grooming and a heron.
My postman says I am keeping the Post Office in business!

Merlot nothing to do with e-bay but if your strips don't work I got a good non slip "rug" for under a rug on a carpet from John Lewis.The instuctions are to use it one side up on carpets and the other way for wooden floors.It is very good and the rug has not moved an inch in fact it seems anchored.I feel sure it would work as well on your floors (and foil your dogs).

For our ruby wedding I was bought a ring from eBay. It cost less than £100 and I wear it all the time and love it. We looked at lots in 'new' shops and they were very expensive and didn't appeal to me. This one has three nice rubies and is probably from the 1930s.

I collect porcelain napoleonic military figures, which are very hard to come by, and have bought several nice ones off ebay. Some are dross, but there are some gems. We have a grandson who likes Action Man, and ebay has supplied a whole company of them, their vehicles, clothes and equipment. I buy fishing odds and ends on there, and when the centre piece of our toilet roll holder broke, and we couldn't find one anywhere else..... Never sold anything though; might have to learn how to do it for when Action Man falls out of favour!

I love ebay. You can get odd useful things and bits to repair things, but I have also found lovely unusual old jewellry (not all valuable).

I have also sold loads of things, I like the idea of items having another life when I no longer want them. x

We received a lovely magazine rack today which we only ordered two days ago from ebay. My DH orders loads from there. This was from an ebay shop and was new, not used. Lovely and free delivery.

I wanted a caravan awning. So I googled it and spotted one I liked and discovered it was actually somewhere in the local area. So I paid £5 for full membership of Preloved and contacted the owner.
After several messages back and forth about where she lived and what was the best time to come and have a look at it......I discovered that the seller was the school cook at one of the schools I work at! And she'd also paid £5 to join Preloved in order to sell it.
It's a small world!

Nice one, vq.

I love eBay and today ordered some anti-slip strips to stick on the back of a large rug I bought just before Christmas. We have painted wooden floorboards and the rug didn't slip at all to start with but then the Jack Russells discovered they could gallop across the room at top speed, jump on the rug and get a 'magic carpet' ride until they hit the wall on the other side of the room.

I think they've polished the floor under the rug because now it slips all the time which is bloody a bit dangerous.

I've just had an e-mail me tell me my calf supports (I wear them under jeans as they help my arthritic knees) are in the post.

Good old eBay. I don't know what I'd do without it.

That was fantastically lucky vampirequeen. I do hope your husband gets great pleasure and relief from pain in his new chair. I have arthritis and know how sore it can feel so I am glad he has found some comfort. Good one! Keep ebaying!

It was local. Definitely my ebay bargain of all time to date.

Were you lucky enough to find it locally, or did you have to pay for delivery? I love Ebay too, but have never found a bargain like yours! I hope DH continues to find it comfortable.