I would say my house first. Bought in 1978 its gone up in value since then. Also a good bargain from Netto today was a Goodmans rechargeable sweeper. Like the old Ewbank little hand upright sweeper,this is charged up,then runs for about 30 mins ,it is in fact an electric type Ewbank.I had bought one off QVC,different name last year and paid £38.This one cost £15,real bargain.

Well, it's either got to be the first pressing of Nick Drake's Pink Moon that I bought second hand in the mid 80s for £2.50 and sold to a rare vinyl company for £220 recently, or (a slightly different slant- a service rather than a product) the £70 which got me to see the consultant surgeon privately, thus bypassing the 10 week waiting list and saving my life.

I think the best bargain i've had was a wooden garden table that fits around the patio heater and four chairs.

I think the Chairs were originally priced up at £99 each (wouldn't have paid that for em) but in the sale they were reduced and then they had one of those 20% off days - got them for £19.99 each - Bargain !!!

Oooh (bit of a bargain hunter me) I got a vertisserie from Coles for £20 it had been selling for £120 ... (it's like a rotisserie but vertical) cooks chicken like a dream

My 1943 .303 SML Lee Enfield Rifle & bayonet.

£100 rifle
£6 bayonet.

I've now nearly got full WW2 kit for it too off'v Ebay :thumbsup:

I found a coat in house of frazer just 2 weeks ago. Reduced from £130 to £19.90

my ti bride. i ought her from the discount section of the mail order catalgoue because she had an sti, quick course of anitbiotics cleard that up and now she is good as new!

She is duitful, cleans, cooks and does what i ask in the bedroom!! a bargain at £2000....

Originally posted by liamfh
my ti bride. i ought her from the discount section of the mail order catalgoue because she had an sti, quick course of anitbiotics cleard that up and now she is good as new!

She is duitful, cleans, cooks and does what i ask in the bedroom!! a bargain at £2000.... My pc is the best bargain I ever bought, without it I wouldnt be able to read postings as funny as this.

A pair of jeans reduced from £160 to £35.


You used to get some real bargains in the House Of Fraser sale, they are quite rare now.

My Kiss Vinyl Limited Edition second hand tip top condition for the pricely sum of 50p beautiful!!!

With out a doubt our flat in The Lake Disrict!

We purchased it in the foot and mouth year:D

My husband.....he was free :)

as of recently?
i bought a charger/dock for my digitial camera back in august. it was orignally £50 got it in currys on clearance for £1.81

A vox keyboard that is quite rare. I got it for a fiver as somebits didn'y work. It cost 15 quid to mend and I sold it for £800.
I found a diamond and emerald ring in my house whilst doing it up a few years ago. I sold it for £300. It didn't fit me

my old disco equipment(1989) no longer got it but it paid for itself 100 times over and bought me 2 brand new set ups which are still paying for themselves now and keeping me in beer.:D

HEY CARCRASH, i've got a vox electric piano that i bought from the carboot sale,i also paid about a fiver for it,all working exept one key:(

my son did a search on t'web and couldn't find very much about them (exept that they were only made for a year or so).

best bargains- solid gold gents rotary watch,working fine-50p
1950 omega s/s gents watch £1
iwc scaffhausen gents watch £1
pentax programme A slr camera £2

numerous ladies solid gold watches-£1 each.

loads more all from bootsales(btw,it may be realised that i collect watches:D )

my biggest blunder was turning down a 'funny' looking massive pentax camera,i mentioned it at the camera shop on abbeydale road and he told me it was a medium format (professional) camera and if working properly would have been worth a couple of grand,asking price at the bootsale-£5,i cried in my beer all that night:( :(

regards,john.

Originally posted by poppins
My husband.....he was free :) Yes, and mine was too, forgot about that bargain ?(Or was he ?):hihi:

Has to be my car. Got it last yr for £1500 only done 15k and its an r reg. Hopefully when I sell it next year I wont loose too much on it.

One of my IT distributors had some problems with their website, they kept putting stock up for sale at £0 (for about a 15 min period when adding to the site) by mistake:

10 celeron CPU's
2 300GB HDD's
10 400W PSU's
2 copies of windows x64 XP
3 Windows MCE Remotes

all for the amazing sum of £0

The found out when I tried to order 240 power supplies and 12 laptops, they then refused the order and fixed the problem.

a vastly reduced tube of sudocrem!!:clap:

Originally posted by mikeyspikey
a vastly reduced tube of sudocrem!!:clap: Mikey, here we go again Never mind ,cheers the Forum up a bit !

A dress i brought last year for holiday was meant to be £180 in the shop which has now closed used to be next to boots in meadowhall (cant remember name). Was reduced to £60 and then had 50% off due to closure so £30. BARGAIN!

I bought a digital photo printer in the sales down in Kent. £50 for it, bargain I thought :D

Printer (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ie/en/ho/WF05a/5043-5683-5807-5807-6516529-12113568.html)

:thumbsup:

a few years ago i bought 3 beatles fanclub flexis for £1.25 each from a charity shop.

i sold em for £60 (theyre worth about £50 / £60 each) but cos they were flexis and from the 60s they wernt in amazing condition so i graded them accordingly

4ftx4ft gilmours windsor ales & stouts pub mirror
upright piano

A Denon surround sound processor, bought for 50p, sold for £60 :D

Got lots of baby stuff on ebay for my daughter's new baby, including:
Silver cross carry cot pram 99p
moses basket, stand and bath £3.70
11 Next body suit vests 99p

etc...

All were in excellent condition, and Im glad I didnt pay more.

Ooh, I love bargains.

Theres so many, I can't think of any!

I got my latest heels half price in the sale! From £70 to £35! and theyre beautiful !!!

One of my best bargains was a copy of a Dr Who annual featuring Patrick Troughton from the 1960's. It was 15p from a jumble sale and was offered £60 for it a year or so ago but didn't sell. Might wop it on Ebay now Dr Who is back on the screens. :D

This time last year I bought a HUGE gammon joint from Morrisons. It still had a month on it's date and was reduced from £10.99 to 99p! It was so big that I cut it up into 4 smaller, but still very big joints.

Originally posted by D2J
I bought a digital photo printer in the sales down in Kent. £50 for it, bargain I thought :D

Printer (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ie/en/ho/WF05a/5043-5683-5807-5807-6516529-12113568.html)

:thumbsup:

i got one too in the sales!

epson r800, £249 in dixons/ everywhere else but £149 in john lewis! :thumbsup:

once bought a book for 10p at a jumble 'cos it looked valuable....1960's obscure book of woodcuts...

sold it to rare and racey for..er ...four quid!

not alot but still 4,000% profit! :thumbsup:

....and i got an old 2000ad comic for 1p at a jumble sale and sold it ferra fiver! :thumbsup:

My stering wheel for my Ps2 got it of ebay for £4 and in top condition there about £50-60 new

A Relax Kids Sparkling Meditations for Shining Stars CD.

It cost £14.99 and it gets my children off to sleep EVERY single night. It wasn't reduced or anything but with the effect it's had I would have paid £149.99 if I'd known...

A small price to pay for evenings to yourself!

Can you tell me a little about this Liz? Sounds like we could do with it.

Ihave sent you a PM

the best bargin I ever bought was in whitby I had been going in the second hand shops looking for camera gear, when I came across a very old plate camera complete with wooden tripod and about 30 quarter inch plates, asked how much he wanted for it £100 so I bought it found out 2 months later that it is a fox talbot plate camera and had it valued worth £25.000 it is in the photo museum at bradford now for safe keeping it as only ever been on show 3 times since it as been in there. I also found a bargain in newcastle in a second hand shop it is a railway name plate off a loco cost me £40 sold it 18 months ago for £1500 and what was the loco it was a deltic that use to run up and down the east coast mainline and the name of it ST.PADDY. if it had been the black watch it would be worth now about £20.000. I never ever fell on anymore good bargins all though I keep looking out for them, camera's, photographic equipment & anything to do with railways thats what I look for nowadays.

i got my guitar for £220 and brand new it should have been £400...plus it had a few extras which would have brought it upto about £500.

Then i found out it was owned by someone playing guitar in a band I liked and was wanting to go and see live, he put me on the guest list (saved me another £15), met him backstage after the show and had a chat, got the guitar, gave me a gig bag as well.

:thumbsup: fandabbydosy

FridgePlay magnetic games from Home Bargains this Christmas for 99p, they're £10 in Debenhams and make great presents.

Bought 2 mainframe computers in a auction for 50p and sold them for £150

A Gibson Explorer (Custom Shop Edition) for £150, beautiful guitar, original cost £2000. Also 70's USA Fender Precision Bass, foul orange colour but the real thing, £150

Leak valve Hi-Fi amp from a junkshop for £10, these are going on Ebay for over £200

Pergeot 405 for £350, got 4 years out of it and went all round the UK