How I made £4.69 and not a survey in site!

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I actually find this a bit amusing. I am a big tinned soup lover and I sold 15 empty tins for a net profit of £4.69 on Ebay. True!
 
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I actually find this a bit amusing. I am a big tinned soup lover and I sold 15 empty tins for a net profit of £4.69 on Ebay. True!
You will be surprised at what there is a market for online

Empty makeup bottles seem to always sell very well as do bottles of one of my favourite drinks Kraken!
 
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Where do you store the empty tins?

storage would be my main problem

sounds good though and recycling
 

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I actually find this a bit amusing. I am a big tinned soup lover and I sold 15 empty tins for a net profit of £4.69 on Ebay. True!

I've heard of people buying old jam jars because they can be reused. But not sure what anyone would do with old soup tins.
 

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Maybe we should have a survey about the most random things people have sold to make money? ;-)
 

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Or we could have a competition, like 'Who can sell the most random item on ebay' for the most profit :p

Like i remember the time when people used to sell their ps3 empty boxes for atleast £5, so people could get more when they sold them on haha.
 
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Or we could have a competition, like 'Who can sell the most random item on ebay' for the most profit :p

Like i remember the time when people used to sell their ps3 empty boxes for atleast £5, so people could get more when they sold them on haha.

It still happens with Xbox ones and ps4s! I accidentally bid on one once. Thankfully I got outbid
 

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It still happens with Xbox ones and ps4s! I accidentally bid on one once. Thankfully I got outbid
Haha that's hilarious, do you remember people bidding on the original xbox and it was literally a box with an x on it.
 

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I used to sell ps3 “game save” files on eBay for crazy money!

I would just download them from the Internet and list it on eBay!!

Made a fortune!
 
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I have purchased 3 empty Douwe Egberts coffee jars for £1.50 and they sell for between £4-5 each.
 

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Or we could have a competition, like 'Who can sell the most random item on ebay' for the most profit :p

Like i remember the time when people used to sell their ps3 empty boxes for at least £5, so people could get more when they sold them on haha.

Ooh yes please! I sold tons of stuff on eBay last year whilst I was having a big clear out. I sold some used (yes used) hair bands for £5 profit. I also found a 50p with a nice picture on it and sold that for £2 profit.
 

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I sell lego bricks by the kilo sometimes, whenever I get a build up of standard bricks I don't need.
 

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I sell lego bricks by the kilo sometimes, whenever I get a build up of standard bricks I don't need.

Ok.. so now I have tons of questions!
  • How many bricks is a kilo?
  • How much lego are you buying to have spare kilos?
  • What lego are you buying to have spares? Which bricks are you getting rid of?
  • Who do you buy for - yourself or a child (or both)?
  • How much time are you spending playing with lego? I am imagining now that you are one of the people from Lego Masters :)
 

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Ok.. so now I have tons of questions!
  • How many bricks is a kilo?
  • How much lego are you buying to have spare kilos?
  • What lego are you buying to have spares? Which bricks are you getting rid of?
  • Who do you buy for - yourself or a child (or both)?
  • How much time are you spending playing with lego? I am imagining now that you are one of the people from Lego Masters :)

Surely your first question should be 'can I have some to play with'? Haha
 

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Ok.. so now I have tons of questions!

  • How many bricks is a kilo?
About 350 2 x4 bricks makes a kilo.
  • How much lego are you buying to have spare kilos?
I buy job lots of lego at boot sales or auction, when it turns up occasionally. Usually because there is a complete set amongst it that I want.
  • What lego are you buying to have spares? Which bricks are you getting rid of?
I then get stuck with lots of standard system bricks that make up the jobs lots, and usually its those I sell by weight. More rare or unusual bricks I sell on brick owl.
  • Who do you buy for - yourself or a child (or both)?
Buy for myself, a small collection of vintage lego sets which I rotate. (buy a couple, sell a couple)
  • How much time are you spending playing with lego?
Not much really, I build the sets to make sure they are complete then often they go back in the box. A couple I have out on display.

My instagram if you are interested - https://www.instagram.com/vintage.brick/
 
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  • How many bricks is a kilo?
About 350 2 x4 bricks makes a kilo.
  • How much lego are you buying to have spare kilos?
I buy job lots of lego at boot sales or auction, when it turns up occasionally. Usually because there is a complete set amongst it that I want.
  • What lego are you buying to have spares? Which bricks are you getting rid of?
I then get stuck with lots of standard system bricks that make up the jobs lots, and usually its those I sell by weight. More rare or unusual bricks I sell on brick owl.
  • Who do you buy for - yourself or a child (or both)?
Buy for myself, a small collection of vintage lego sets which I rotate. (buy a couple, sell a couple)
  • How much time are you spending playing with lego?
Not much really, I build the sets to make sure they are complete then often they go back in the box. A couple I have out on display.

My instagram if you are interested - https://www.instagram.com/vintage.brick/

I had some of those sets as a kid!
 

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  • How many bricks is a kilo?
About 350 2 x4 bricks makes a kilo.
  • How much lego are you buying to have spare kilos?
I buy job lots of lego at boot sales or auction, when it turns up occasionally. Usually because there is a complete set amongst it that I want.
  • What lego are you buying to have spares? Which bricks are you getting rid of?
I then get stuck with lots of standard system bricks that make up the jobs lots, and usually its those I sell by weight. More rare or unusual bricks I sell on brick owl.
  • Who do you buy for - yourself or a child (or both)?
Buy for myself, a small collection of vintage lego sets which I rotate. (buy a couple, sell a couple)
  • How much time are you spending playing with lego?
Not much really, I build the sets to make sure they are complete then often they go back in the box. A couple I have out on display.

My instagram if you are interested - https://www.instagram.com/vintage.brick/


I HAD THAT!!!
 
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I don't know what all this "I had that" is all about... I still have every single piece of lego from when I was a child! It will be recycled and reused for my child :)

My mum gave mine away without my consent. It really should be illegal to do stuff like that
 
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