Guilty Purchases – what do you buy for yourself for fun on eBay?

[KatieScott]

So, sometimes I just buy things on ebay just for fun. Here’s what I buy:

* huge lots of Bed Bath & Beyond products (new products)
* Athleta clothing (especially the skorts)
* sketchers & Bob’s memory foam slip on shoes
* Planetbox stainless steel lunch boxes (lately these are my obsession)
* new perfume in tester bottles
* food gadgets – (like rice molds that look like kitty cats for our bento lunch boxes)
* my dyson handheld vacuum, I’d like to get another one for the office
* Vintage pewter cheese cutters from Norway with Vikings etched on them
* beauty monthly subscription boxes – like birchbox, ipsy, etc.
* bath bombs and homemade soaps

That’s my list, what do you buy on ebay?

[Jay]

$120 Patagonia travel pants that I can snipe for $20 or less.

[Ryanne]

i buy discontinued Ikea fabric scraps (or full huge pieces) to make art or pillows from for our rentals and now our house. also buy discontinued ikea or west elm patterned duvet covers for the rentals if i can find them at the right price. for fun we tend to buy nice travel clothes using auction snipes as jay mentioned.

[ChristineR]

I just bought a vintage 60s wooden monkeypod toothpick holder appetizer server – tiki style. Did I need this? No. but $6. Surprisingly, I have not found one of these in the wild amongst the monkeypod cast offs. I also have bought vintage Hawaiian style wood wrap Siestaware glass sets on Ebay. Currently, I’m looking at David Weidman midcentury art.

[So Cal Joe]

I bought a pair of Brooks Ghost 8 Running shoes (worn 3 times). I had a pair given to me before and wore them out walking and hiking.

These retail for up to $150.00, but can usually be found on Ebay for about $100 including shipping.

I bought mine at auction for $22 plus $13 shipping. You got to love auctions.

[aperture]

Some indulgences I have purchased in past:
-$80 North Face pants that zip off into shorts
-Timberland Smartwool slippers – not sure these are made anymore, but my first pair lasted ~10 years
-Seki nail clippers
-Canon 100 – 400 mm lens (this is a safari lens I took to Ecuador – bought low and sold back high on return – covered the eBay fees and shipping so I was able to ‘rent’ the lens for free)
-Copper tri ply pots/pans

[Retro Treasures WV]

I buy my steel toe work shoes on there. The pair I’m wearing now are Timberland Pro and they look like a pair of Sperry Top Sider Boat Shoes. $50 brand new – originally $150.

I also buy our vacations on there. I buy a timeshare week at the beach when we go to the beach.

[Sharyn]

In the mid-2000’s, I was looking last minute for three vacation rentals (for my family, my sister’s family, and my parents). I found a company through eBay that had three units available for our week, but I ended up arranging and paying for them off line. I wonder if eBay allowed that at that time.

Last year, I bought several bowls that go with our place settings. Normally, the bowls go for $40 at Replacements. I kept waiting for someone with a better price and then bought all they had.

[Jay]

I feel everyone’s responses (including mine) aren’t guilty pleasures but the great deals we get on stuff we need!

[ChristineR]

One of the reasons I got started selling on Ebay as a hobby is to sell cool things of value I found that we don’t need and essentially swapping them for things we do plus a few vintage items I like and never find. Then it just blossomed into a little side business.

[antarestar]

I bought this amazing shirt the other day. The seller to a reasonable best offer and shipped the same day.

https://imgur.com/a/zaicNdI

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by antarestar.

[Gompers]

Video games and music CDs. Nearly always used.

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