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I am selling bits and pieces on ebay. Due to finish today.

I have some old Brownie clothes, a couple of bits of Clinique, some Mini Boden clothes and a show jacket (horse riding).

Out of all the bits and pieces I only actually bought the show jacket - which I bought new from ebay a couple of years ago at £19.99. The Clinique bits are from gift packs that people have bought me and although I used everything else in the gift packs I don't use the clarifiying liquid, the Brownie uniform (two pairs of trousers and two t-shirts) came from someone else but are still like new and the Mini Boden clothes were all bought by my mum - they have been worn by both girls but are still in fab condition.

They all end in the next few hours and so far I am up to £79 in bids. The riding jacket alone is currently standing at £32.

I have already ear marked things to spend my money on - some food boxes for L's party, some food colouring gels and a gorgeous glass jug for Pimms and Asti and Lime.

The last lot of stuff I sold bought bits and pieces from ebay and I used what was left to pay for my train ticket for the Birmingham meet.

Let the money keep coming in.

That's brilliant - fingers crossed for a bidding war on the jacket

It went for £48 in the end.

I made £154 (without taking their fees off).

I will be off on an ebay spending spree later this week.

Very nice!!!

Result!

That is brilliant.... ......but have you ever bought anything that didn't work? And if so, how did you deal with it?

I bought a rather expensive coffee machine three weeks ago and when it arrived it said on the control panel that it was jammed. We rang the "troubleshooting" team but they couldn't fix it so recommended that as it said it was jammed on both coffee spouts, which is extremely unusual, it would be better to return it. It wasn't actually jammed, just the electronics thought it was. Whilst the vendor is happy to have it returned, I am a little cheesed off that I paid £30 to have it delivered and now it will cost me another £30 to have it returned, which seems unfair when the product is not working. Ebay have advised that this is just the way it is done!! If I bought something online and it was faulty it would not be up to me to pay for the return postage.

I was even willing to return it personally but Ebay advised against that as at least using a carrier it will be insured but if I return it, the vendor may turn around and say it is not working because of something I have caused in transit.

I am really hacked off about it!!!

I would be very annoyed too Molly.

I have only really had two bad experiences with ebay. One with selling and one with buying.

I bought a Barbie horse thing for L for her birthday which was from a seller rather than an individual and it was advertised as new. When it arrived it was all at the bottom of the box - you know when you buy plastic tat for children it is usually artfully staged in its box and fastened in with loads of little white wires. Well it had no wires on. I emailed the seller and complained and they sent me another one - letting me keep the one I already had. So both girls got a Barbie horse.

The other time was from someone who bought something off me. I had proof of postage but not recorded delivery. She contacted me to tell me that it hadn't arrived and she wanted a refund so I went back to her and quoted all the stuff from ebay about non receipt of stuff (wait so many days, send off claim form to post office, etc, etc) and asked her to contact me again so many days later to let me know if she still hadn't received it and then I would send the claim form off to the post office and if they then came back to me to say that it hadn't been delivered I would refund her money. I never heard from her again so I assume she was just trying it on to see if I gave her an automatic refund.

That's awful Molly.

I once bought something that was advertised as being new but it obviously wasn't when it arrived, it was clearly well used! The seller told me that if I sent it back she'd refund me what I'd paid but not return postage so I argued it out with her as the item was around £6 and return postage was around £5 and she did refund it in the end. Then she relisted the item but still didn't change the description

I bought some football boots for L a couple of months ago and when they came they felt damp.

They had arrived at my mums house (where I tend to have parcels sent) and they had been sat in a padded envelope in the heat of their conservatory so I thought maybe they had been sweating.

I left them there whilst I went to the allotment and when I got back the conservatory stunk of cat pee. They don't have a cat so we were very confused as to what had caused the smell. We tracked it down to the football boots.

The woman was lovely - I emailed her that day and said that they stunk of cat pee. She just told me to mail them back - I do wonder if she knew that they had been wee'd on and was hoping to get away with it.

Oh yuk