Inspired by, but not wanting to hijack, this thread, I invite you tell about your big buck purchase (if you are so inclined.
Mine was a 1997 Rickenbacker 4001 bass (in Jetglow). With shipping, I paid $785.
If I remember correctly, it was a 1977 Fisher Price “My Baby Beth” Doll NRFB for around 250 USD.
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(who is also a doll collector)
I used my account to purchase a $10000 truck for a friend, but he paid for it.
For personal use, I purchased a vintage Tiffany & Co. 18kt gold bracelet for about $1200. Worth every penny - and it appraised by Tiffany & Co. in NYC for several times as much as I paid.
Most expensive thing I’ve ever bought on eBay was a 1988 Thomas Minotour school bus (the short buses built on a E-350 van frame, for $1200.
Mesa/Boogie Mark IV cabinet, BINned for $1200.
For ordinary bidding, a UK copy of the EP Dave Davies Hits in mint condition for the equivilent of about $500 (in another thread I mentioned an auction after which I received hate mail from a eBay user who wasn’t even involved in the auction; it was this auction.) I ended up paying about $100 more cos the seller demanded I pay his Paypal fees, too :mad:
We found our minivan on eBay. 1999 Mercury Villager Sport, 35K miles, for ~$9000.
Bought a '91 Galant on Ebay once. I don’t remember how much it was. $2500, I think.
Also, when I first started on ebay we got in a bidding war on this huge lot of Cure stuff. Vinyl, cassettes, CDs, videos, books. Tons of stuff. $900. =
I’ve since sold some of it, though, and it went for quite a bit, so I’m not really worried about it, but I do wish sometimes that I’d been more of an experienced bidder at that time, because I probably would have spent a couple hundred bucks less.
I paid about $225 for a saddle, pad, stirrups and leathers for my son last Christmas. It was a great deal, but the most I’ve ever paid on eBay for anything.
An off brand digital camera for $80. It was a few years ago when digital cameras were still outrageous.
I inherited a set of gorgeous china from my husband’s grandmother, but several pieces were missing. It’s apparently a pretty rare pattern - very occasionally, pieces come up on Replacements.com, but they’re generally priced WAY out of my range ($175 for ONE PLATE?!?!?!) After years of searching, I found a nearly complete service for 8 on eBay, but no one else was bidding, so I never hit the reserve price. After the auction ended with no winner, I contacted the seller and asked if he would tell me his reserve price - and it was only $200. He very kindly offered to sell AND ship it for that price. So now I have COMPLETE service for 16 plus a few extra pieces.
A vintage Rolex Submariner, $1,700.
I want to sell my other (c.1961) Rolex Sub on eBay for $2,000 but I haven’t gotten round to taking photos of it yet.
Most expensive ebay purchase, hrmmm…
It was either the $15 I spent on an inflatable exercise ball, or the $15 I spent on a paper shredder for Tark at Christmas.
What can I say - I live dangerously.
**Demo **and I bought our wedding on ebay.
$1500, with the Buy it Now option.
$1600 for a kit car.
http://userweb.suscom.net/~sokosfamily/toy.htm
I spent $60, plus s&h for a National Geographic map from 1896. My goal is to own a halfway decent magazine issue from before 1900(the NG started in 1888). But that will likely have to remain a dream. I do own all but 12 issues from 1914 to the present, with several before that.
Around $650 for a near-new-almost-impossible-to-find-now Louis Vuitton monogram satin ange. I’d been lusting after the bag for several years, but at the time it was available in stores I didn’t have a chance in hell of affording it - and by the time I could afford it, it had been discontinued.
I’ve bought several paperwieghts for about $35 each. If I had the money, I’d buy some of the higher end ones in the $200’s. Still, I’ve built up a nice collection through eBay.
My computer, for $1200
I think it was probably my current G4 PowerMac, for $800. This was a few years ago. A while before that I bought my first G4, for $750. And a while before that I bought an iMac for (I can’t remember exactly, but I think it was in the $700 range).
So, basically, Macs are the most expensive things I’ve bought on eBay.
Revenue stamp R101 in F/VF condition $310.00