Sabena332 From Germany, joined May 2001, 14217 posts, RR: 100 Reply 2, posted (2 years 12 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 469 times:
The first item I bought on eBay was an old Interflug timetable from the year 1987, I paid approx. 2 EUR for it.
Patrick
PS: Thanks for posting an eBay thread, reminds me that I have to log-on and buy a new headset to use Skype again, I destroyed mine yesterday night while I was drunk.
TuRbUleNc3 From United Kingdom (England), joined May 2006, 511 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (2 years 12 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 411 times:
An airline item set which included 2 safety cards (channel express and FR), demo safety belt, 2 airline menu's, working fasten seatbelt/no smoking sign and some other bits like aircraft cabin decals etc
SmithAir747 From United States, joined Jan 2004, 1390 posts, RR: 31 Reply 14, posted (2 years 12 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 401 times:
My first ever eBay item, in September 1999, was a vintage glass syringe (all glass, both piston and barrel) for my medical instrument collection. There are a sizeable number of glass syringes in my collection, all sizes (from 1ml up to 100ml jumbo), from many different places (even Russia!).
SmithAir747
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... (Psalm 139:14)
SlamClick From United States, joined Nov 2003, 9996 posts, RR: 78 Reply 15, posted (2 years 12 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 392 times:
Not certain here.
Either:
A seatback briefing card from a long-gone airline where I once worked.
or:
A very old photo postcard, which I bought for the daughter of the man who took the photo. She was, herself in her 80s at the time I gave it to her. It was signed on the back by a woman my grandfather had problems with over a hundred years ago.
Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.
Ozair From Australia, joined Jan 2005, 477 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 12 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 380 times:
It was a copy of Nero Ver 5 for my father-in-law in the UK.
The funny thing is I paid one pound fifty for it plus two pounds in postage. The guy sent it first class post that same day costing him 3 pounds making a whopping 50p in profit!
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 7881 posts, RR: 65 Reply 22, posted (2 years 12 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 344 times:
My first item was an EWS Class 37, OO scale model railway engine. My second item, bought at about the same time was an L1011 cargo door operating manual... good bed-time reading!
I don't have time to get ripped off on ebay, I am too busy ripping other people off.
Just Kidding, first thing I bought was a Starbucks card.
"Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?"
26 FlyingTexan: Same here. And I also have an attachment to the old postcard I purchased. I bought it in May 1999 from an antique dealer. The postcard was taken in 1
27 Saxdiva: First purchase was a flute. The last item (yesterday) was a pair of tickets to the UCLA/USC game.
28 ManuCH: OK don't laugh ... it was an optometry kit with all the lenses from -20 to +20 diopters (spherical) and up to -6 for astigmatism. It was a hobby of mi
29 Columba: Cds of the Travelling Willburys shortly after the dead of George Harrison -paid too much
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