ebay
After watching the gadget show for the first time the other night, I decided to finally sign up to ebay…
Instead of jumping in at the deep end and bidding straight away, me and Anneka sat down and planned the whole ebay process. We signed up for a new hotmail.co.uk address, which will be used purely for ebay. We registered with paypal and ebay itself, and ensured that our online banking was up to speed…
The ‘end game’, well what we’re aiming for, is to actually make money on online auctions. You hear various stories about those that have made their millions on ebay, and the gadget show itself showed an individual who was up on takings after a month of solid ebay action.
I’ve even experienced it first hand, a few mates at work used to ebay their old things to make some money, and my Mum is obsessed with purchasing things on it.
So, the first task, once everything was setup, was to see how it all worked for ourselves. After a few minutes of browsing (we already knew the basics from watching others at ‘work’) we put in a bid of £1.49 on a camera tripod. 15 minutes later and we’d won it…
For £5.49 (£4 postage!) we now have a dedicated tripod for the digital camera - this will enable us to take decent pictures of the items we’ll be selling.
Watch this space for more ebay action - this time next year we’ll be millionaires…
November 17th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
Yea i hear it can be addictive.
Depends what floats your boat :o
November 17th, 2005 at 9:15 pm
did it feature lincoln that episode? i fell asleep but i watched it on tuesday or monday was it and thought is that lincoln or am i dreaming about that slaphead making a stedicam out of a tripod
November 18th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
That was the episode - it featured steep hill, with the lisp guy going in and around the Castle/Cathedral too. What was also weird was that they featured Tamworth snow arena thingy in the same episode.
That steady-cam looked a bit dodgy though!