What has been the best deal you have ever made???

I recently found THE BEST DEAL on EBay!!!!!!!!

I have been wanting a PlayStation2 for a little while. A few days ago I went looking on EBay again. I was SHOCKED when I found someone selling NOT ONLY selling a PlayStation2 BUT ALSO an XBox AND 17 games ALL for $150 Buy It Now WITH FREE SHIPPING!!!!!! That is an amazing deal since just a PlayStation WITHOUT games is $125. For just $25 more I get an XBox and 17 games and FREE Shipping!!!!

What have been the "best deals" you have ever made??????

Which games? I can tell you how much they're worth - though most Xbox and PS2 games, if you were to trade them in at certain places, wouldn't get you more then $2 each (if that, many are only worth $.50). Both systems, with age, will have problems reading discs. You will likely have to have someone clean the lenses for you or you'll see a lot of corrupt data/disc read errors. This has nothing to do with how the system was cared for - dirt gets in no matter what.
Some Xboxs were actually having a problem on the motherboard that makes them short out after a while.


One of the best deals I've had was buying a brand new cd straight from the label for about $1.50 (before the US dollar went down). New it can cost around $14.
I also have some various Japanese cds that I got from ebay for a lot less then they're worth - such as a Gastunk - The End set with box in mint condition for $20. Other times I've seen it on ebay people have fought it up over $40 (probably higher, I didn't check it the last few days).

I also think DH and I got a fairly good deal on our house. $81k after everything for a three bedroom that has a nice fenced yard and a large garage/shop building.

It depends on if you mean on a percentage basis, or an absolute basis!

I bought Dottie's cell phone for about $25. Brand new, nothing fancy, but her old one was dying. List on it was about $150, but we all know those prices are inflated.

I bought an Alvarez electric guitar at the pawn shop. It was in perfect condition. Alvarez makes a lot of high-end accoustics and has gone in the electric business a couple of times, only to quit after a couple of years. I paid $83 for it and sold it the next day on e-bay for $275.

I also got a Gretsch guitar for right at $300 at the same pawn shop, including a hard case. I could put it on e-bay for $500, but I may keep it.

Hey, I got Dottie for the price of a year in college in France!

Hmm...what comes to mind first is an LL Bean Thinsulate coat I just bought. Retails for $100 and I got it for $6

My craziest good deal was my VW Vanagon, which I bought from good friend for $200. It ran and passed emissions when I bought it. Ok, so I've spent ten times that in parts over two years, but it's a horrendously fun car, and I've got less invested in it than what it's worth.

My best one to date has got to be the Unity Candle that my Aunt just got today for my wedding, it had been $50 and she got it for $2.50 Talk about savings! Its brand new, she found it at a store going out of business, I'm so happy!

I got a nice pair of diamond earrings for around $170.00. They appraised at my local jeweler for over $400.00 and were set in platinum, not white gold as the seller had advertised.

One of the few I've found was last week. I found a $229.00 Wireless Video Game Chair for.......... $15.00!

Found it in a yard sale


It works great too!

Both of mine were good music deals.

First one was Buckingham Nicks self-titled album and Bare Trees, Penguin, Mystery to Me, Fleetwood Mac self-titled, Rumours, Tusk, Live 1980. All were on vinyl and in excellent condition. The Buckingham Nicks album can go for $30 by itself, and the copy of Bare Trees was a very rare one. How much did I pay? $20 Canadian.

In August, Newbury Comics had a hand-signed limited edition of Lindsey Buckingham's new cd Gift of Screws for $20. I'm a member of the Ledge (Fleetwood Mac forums) and a few dozen people ordered copies. Only TWO people (from The Ledge) received signed copies - me and someone in Ireland. Apparently Warner Bros. didn't have enough copies as they thought. The people who didn't get theirs got a refund.

The best deal I ever made was probably for my car. I paid $975 for a 1967 Mustang. At the time the car was 10 years old and my Dad & brothers were making fun of me for spending that much for a 10 year old car. It's been 31 years, and I'm still driving it.

I think probably the best deal I've gotten was for a dog cart. I had a friend who made dog carts. I made a deal with him to make me a custom dog cart for my dog, in trade for a leather studded Mastiff collar (he had Mastiffs.)
I got an awesome hand-made dog cart and he even wood-burned a plaque on the back with my dog's name for it. The collar I traded with him was worth about $75-80+ but I had bought it on ebay for a lot less than that. However the maker was out of business so it was not something you can just buy anymore...

This is a photo of the cart:

In 1996 I bought a 1981 Mazda GLC for $20, it needed some work, but it ran great and was legal.
I had that car for 4 years, it was my camper
I took out the back seat and put a futon back there, it was perfect.
I still really miss that car.

Most of my good deals have been cars. I got my first car (a '77 T-Bird) for free - all I had to do was make it run. I made $500 on it when I sold it; I only put $150 into it.

We just bought am '81 Buick Century off of craigslist for $400. It only has 114,000 miles on it, which is nothing for the year that it is. It runs SO well and is in really great shape for a 28-year-old car. The same car, in the same shape usually runs around $1200 - $2000.