Damini's Carboot Challenge!

[Damini]

Well, I'm feeling competitive, so I'm going to pitch this idea to you guys and see if anyone wants to play

Damini's Carboot Challenge!


The challenge is this... this weekend you must go to a carboot (or in absence of a near car boot, then some charity shops) and spend £10 on whatever you feel is appropriate. (May change this to five pound depending on what people think). You must then take these items, and list them here, including price you paid for them. For example;

Mr T lunchbox, 50 pence.

Ewoks video, £1

China cat with left ear missing, 30p


And so on. Then, and here in lies the challenge, you advertise everything for sale on E-bay, and we see at the end of it all who has done abysmally, who is the uber pimp0r with the biggest profit, and who managed to sell the biggest pile of crap item.




Does anyone want to play?


Damini xx

 

[caLLous]

Heh heh.

Would be good, but I fear my inate laziness prevents me from competing.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I'd love to!

However, I'm poor and about to spend my last few monies on Barrysworld background colour (again). And I'm a lazy bastard.

It's a damn good idea though.....

 

[Summo]

Heh heh. I like it! I'll see what I can find on Saturday.

 

[Damini]

*Spikes both Wazzer's and caLLous's tea with extreme amounts of pro plus....*



Now, lets rediscuss these apathy issues...

 

[Wazzerphuk]

*counteract pro plus with enormous spliff*

Oh, and I don't drink tea. FOILED!

 

[Damini]

*The Giant David Dickinson Smites All those Who Do Not Play With His Giant Magnifying Glass*

 

[Wazzerphuk]

*admire orange tan*

 

[Xavier]

methinks we need two rules

1. you have to sell what you buy as-is... no buying balls of wool and selling jumpers

2. postage to the ebay buyers has to be deducted from the total made - which means if someone spends £5 on old coins or stamps they're f00kered

whatcha think?

 

[*charlton_thd*]

I'm going to a carboot on sunday


If i dont get mugged by gyppo's i'll see what i can find

 

[WPKenny]

Originally posted by Xavier

2. postage to the ebay buyers has to be deducted from the total made - which means if someone spends £5 on old coins or stamps they're f00kered

whatcha think?

I don't get it?

Postage and packing is covered by the person buying the item and hence doesn't come into profit or loss at all.

 

[Damini]

Agreed though on the alterations part - no buying lumps of wood and then carving sculptures, but you can do some cleaning up of whatever you buy, such as peeling off stickers or stopping it smelling of old lady.

What shall the tariff to play be? Five pounds or ten?

 

[Xtro]

f00ked my knee up and am on crutches so no car boot for me

a great shame as I was looking forward to buying crateloads of amiga games and loads of car stereos from pikeys...

 

[*charlton_thd*]

Make it £5 so i can buy a hot dog for my dinner

 

[nath]

but I don't know where any car boot sales are :/

(oh and I've got that apathy thing going on too)

 

[xane]

I often pick up stuff from car boot sales, but you can't sell nineteenth-generation dodgy sixties pr0n on eBay any more

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Damini

*The Giant David Dickinson Smites All those Who Do Not Play With His Giant Magnifying Glass*

I was considering it, till I saw that.....

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

am I allowed to use a 45 I picked up in Oxfam yesterday?

 

[Summo]

As in 'Colt .45'?

The competitive streak is strong with this one.

 

[xane]

You got f*cking GUN from OXFAM !?!?!??!??

 

[Damini]

Hmmmm Scooba. I suppose, although I suspect this "45" isn't crap, because you bought it without prompting. OR, its so crap you couldn't pass it by without buying it. Hmm...

I think we'll let you play, then disqualify you and slander your good name if you win. Hows that sound?

And cama, you're so wrong! In just two steps I found vintage porn! Hawain postcards, allegedly, with topless ladies.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

No, a 45 record, ie an older single, it's a pretty rare breaks treat featured by Shadow on Brainfreeze which routinely goes for about 100 squids on Ebay, I paid 5 quid, it was a pound, but I didn't want to rob Oxfam too much heh

 

[Damini]

Ok, the limit is set at £5. Scooba is a jammy bastard. I have my hopes set on the secret Ming Vase from the Dynasty Period that nobody else sees the true value of, and I can pick up for £1.30, or, failing that, some videos, and possibly a mug with Prince Charles on it.


Contendoooor..... Reaaaaaady!



Gladiator..... Reaaaaaady!

3.... 2.... 1....

 

[WPKenny]

We need a finishing date for all the auctions...all on the same day....

 

[Summo]

The following Saturday? 6 July.

 

[Damini]

And no reserve price is allowed. So the worse anyone can possibly do is lose £4.99. And all their dignity.

 

[MYstIC G]

can me & kenny be "t3h l4zy h035" & use e-bay?

 

[Damini]

Surely buying off of e-bay, to sell it back onto e-bay kinda defeats the purpose of selling it on e-bay, and defeats the object of playing the aptly named CARBOOT CHALLENGE?

I mean, I could be wrong....


But I'm not.


Straight to bed and no biscuits Meg.

 

[granny]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
ie an older single

That's me... can I sell myself and then re-buy myself and then auction myself on ebay?

No hang on, I'd do better with an old record...

Originally posted by Summo
The following Saturday? 6 July.

Bugger, that's my birthday, I'm not going scraping about other people's cast off junk on my getting-older-day, I'll be busy, maybe, hmm, OK, count me in

 

[Damini]

Noo, you buy stuff this weekend, and your birthday is the day that the auction must end on

And you may spend your profits on beer and fast cars.

Or not as the case may be...