Making money on ebay!

[OliveOil]

Anyone got any good ideas???  I've just seen this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3x-WATER-MELON-plug-plants-grown-in-jiffy-7-s_W0QQitemZ160107301617QQihZ006QQcategoryZ20536QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Now the seeds she is using are 29p for loads in lidls.... the jiffys are pennies - great Idea i think - good on her I say!

I also bought comfrey off ebay - then discovered it growing ALL over my plot! LOL

[OliveOil]

[Robert_Brenchley]

I trust you'd grow them on a bit further than that before seeling them!

[Tin Shed]

I bourght some cucumbers from Lidl - Chinese Sangen- for 29p. Checked on google to find out any info and found someone selling them as a rare cucumber fron China for over £2. They were in  a different packet, but I feel like contacting them to let them know about the Lidl offer!!!

[cambourne7]

i was going to do starter packs of my self saved peas at the end of the year, a couple of variatys and maybe 10 of each for people just starting out.

If you look at her list of other items and she her other item which is 4 packets of flower seeds for 49pence

[emmy1978]

Great idea, and yeah, good on her! My mum makes money on ebay by finding stuff in charity shops like Harris tweed and selling it on. I'm pretty sure she's selling all our childhood stuff off on the sly too! She and her husband are mad collectors, it runs in the family, and she confesses to being so addicted to ebay at one point that she was wandering around the house thinking what she could sell!  ::)

[Grandma]

Last year someone was selling very small Leycesteria Formosa (Pheasant Berry) plants for £2.90. I could have cried! I have one mature plant and every year I have to pull out/hoe off millions of its offspring - they grow everywhere! Seems that I've composted an absolute fortune! :o

[cambourne7]

but you can sell them from now though??

[Tin Shed]

Look further down her list Cambourne and she is selling 'rare' spaghetti squash seedling for £1.99!! Perhaps I should give up the day job.

[OliveOil]

even funnier - she has 6 kids, doesnt live near post office and doesnt drive... but the photo of the squash seedling clearly shows a car parked right outside the lean to window... Ok ok its probably hubbies but it did make me chuckle.

[glow777]

people will pay funny money for stuff

Of my spare J Artichokes I gave some to Cambourne 7 (how they going by the way) gave a load to plots around me and someone else on A4A (cant remember who)

As I had 5 left and "grow your own" had just been on TV my wife bet me to stick them on ebay. I put them on at £7 and they sold pretty much straight away - I even bodged the postage and the buyer paid £3 too much postage!

darent tell the missus I gave away at least 30 tubers ::) ::) ::)

[Robert_Brenchley]

I bourght some cucumbers from Lidl - Chinese Sangen- for 29p. Checked on google to find out any info and found someone selling them as a rare cucumber fron China for over £2. They were in  a different packet, but I feel like contacting them to let them know about the Lidl offer!!!

Everything's 'rare' on eBay. I get sick of sellers claiming some cruddy example of a coin that can be found by the dozen is 'rare'!

[cambourne7]

people will pay funny money for stuff

Of my spare J Artichokes I gave some to Cambourne 7 (how they going by the way) gave a load to plots around me and someone else on A4A (cant remember who)

As I had 5 left and "grow your own" had just been on TV my wife bet me to stick them on ebay. I put them on at £7 and they sold pretty much straight away - I even bodged the postage and the buyer paid £3 too much postage!

darent tell the missus I gave away at least 30 tubers ::) ::) ::)

Hi

Yep they have popped up saddad gave me some as well and i have them in 2 pots and there doing really well.

I am brining them up to the allotment monday as i have been keeping my eye on them in frosts.

I think with JA and sweet potatos slips there a fortune to be made!!

I was bidding for a book on ebay which went well over what i could afford (The Children of Hurin JRR Tolkien SIGNED Christopher Tolkien & Alan Lee ) i managed to find 2 copied of the same 1st edition today with £3 of each ( only signed by Alan Lee ) but i recon if i hold on to the books for a while they would be worth something. I have ordered a copy from the libary to read so i dont damage my bought copy.

Cambourne7

[Jeannine]

I read seeds/plants etc on e bay a lot. I have noticed a change there though. 3 years ago toms and squash a wee bit out of the ordinary fetched high prices but not anymore.  Folks buying re packaged seeds are taking a huge gamble on e bay. It would be so easy for sellers to mix seed up or chose to if they ran out.

I have also noticed that home saved seed doesn't sell well either. This I can understand as it is iffy to say the least.Personally I would't buy it,my seed collection is too precious to throw rogues into the pot.

If you have a problem with seeds, eg don't germinate or not what they claimed to be, there is little to do, feedback only lasts for 3 months  and seeds need longer than that to bear fruit.

There is lots on there, but there is a lot that never sells too.

XX Jeannine

[KevB]

It looks like the scene from "Alien" with all the pods waiting for the spaceman to come!!

[allaboutliverpool]

I was surfing round eBay when I found that someone has sold some pods of some foreign palm or something. When I turned to the buyer he had dozens of obscure plant seeds for sale at 99p a packet plus postage. They were things like Kiwi fruit, pomegranites and palm trees.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Supreme-Seeds

[Old bird]

Hi - I bought some GOJI seed as they were advertised on the internet in America as very rare etc etc.  I paid £2.99 for 10 seeds or soemthing like that plus a bit for postage!

Went down to my expensive Health Food Store they were selling dried Goji berries (healthy little things apparently - I may live to 200 now!) So bought them to try them as my plants won't produce fruit for a couple of years minimum.  Inside each of the small fruit a super abundance of seed  - ready for planting!

I am now going to seel Goji seeds on ebay!!

:P