Shop Keeper

[SIRandyraven]

I'm sure I should have been a shop keeper.
I get such a buzz out of buying stuff cheap at Car Boot sales and selling them on e-bay. Even when I only make a few quid profit.
Just love the thrill of it.

I picked up a DVD box set a couple of weeks back.
Jane Austen all the films (BBC release) for £1 and sold it via e-bay Buy It Now for £20. Guess I made £16 ish profit ....but the rush I got ...
A girl friend said to me once , that I was money motivated.
I figure she was right.

[Maydup]

Well done you. What a great return for a morning's pleasure.

I guess it gets better with expereince too, knowing what sells and what sticks.

[boxtops]

Good on you, sirA - we all need the money these days!

[craft1948]

Hope you've included this on your tax return............

[micmak]

I'd love to be able to sell on e-bay. I don't know how to do the photo's. Shame really as I have loads of stuff I don't want.

[looobylooo]

id love to have a go too micmak,
but im just not genned up enough to feel brave enough to put something up for sale!
must be good fun though!
well done sirA, thats the way to do it! :o)

[Squitty]

Well done sir !
I usually buy a few dvd's at car boots but will only pay 1.00 each max so I picked up three today and cheekily said to the lady 'how much bulk discount do I get?' expecting 50p off or something and she said 'Ok then a pound for the three'.
Bargain - over 4 hours entertainment for a quid!.

[SIRandyraven]

DVD Box sets is what you need to look out for.
I have picked up a few boot sale bargains and sold them on e-bay.
Best yet is a phone (Black 1937) ...cost with conversion £40.
Hope to get £150-£200 on e-bay with luck.
Poole 1932 biscuit barrel for £1 and got £40 for it ...
No Moorcroft or Clarice Cliff yet :-(

Listing on e-bay is very simple. Just take a digital picture on your camera , upload it to your pc.
When you sell on e-bay it will ask you to select picture to upload and off you go ...

With DVD you can tap in the barcode number and it will select a picture and description from a database.

[SIRandyraven]

@craft1948 - What is this Tax thing ?
When I exceed my capital gains threshold, I will ask Vodafone for advise.

[pink-kittens]

dont start selling to much stuff like this as you will have to register as a business

[ChuckFickens]

You are selling good bought for resale and no other reason therefore you are trading and capital gains threshold doesn't apply.

have you declared it on your tax returns or not?

[SIRandyraven]

@Pink-kittens:- I don't mind registering as a business user. If e-bay require it ever , I will.
I don't sell enough quantity at the moment I don't think.

[ChuckFickens]

Not so sure if it's an intelligent move to boast that you are evading tax on your trading while having a picture of yourself as an avatar BTW.

http://www.gravatar.c...atar.jpg&size=512&r=g

[SIRandyraven]

@ChuckFickens - Yes of course. Every penny helps towards the deficit.
More than happy to pay tax on all my earnings.

[pink-kittens]

There will be something in ebays verious terms and conditions I'm sure!
GL to you - if you can make some dosh in todays climate ...

[pink-kittens]

various*

[ChuckFickens]

LOL.... nice backtrack :)

p.s. I actually don't care myself and wish you well in trying to raise a few extra pennies... but seriously you should be careful what you post on an open forum, especially if you use your own pic as your avatar.

[SIRandyraven]

@chuck-fickens - So funny - Yep that's me Stan Laurel

Yes I'm a tax dodger. Only paid £30k last year via PAYE.

I will flee abroad I think Panama or Mexico.
Anything to avoid paying tax on my £16 profit on that DVD box set.

Lighten up dear !

And they wonder why CB is dead these days.
Big LOL

You start a light hearted thread and end up a tax dodger ...

[SIRandyraven]

Does the tax man have pictures of all of us ?

I will have to have plastic surgery as well and change my looks.
What can you get for £16 ?

[craft1948]

Okay so you're not declaring it for tax then.........

[SIRandyraven]

Nope