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> Best Ebay Buy?, Musical or otherwise.
petrat
post Aug 2 2007, 11:39 PM
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What has been your best bargain ever from eBay? I bought a very nice garklein recently for £14, but a really good buy for me was a set of brand new glove puppets that I will use in my saturday morning kids music making group. These were 99p for the lot.
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post Aug 2 2007, 11:40 PM
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My new sister (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

LOL

Ermm..probably my 100 tubs of trombone slide cream for 5 squid (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Aug 3 2007, 05:17 AM
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My favourite clarinet was from eBay - that was definitely my best buy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Aug 3 2007, 06:56 AM
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£10 for a Boosey and Hawkes Clarinet - it was in excellent condition.

I also got a lovely Moeck Treble for £40.
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post Aug 3 2007, 07:16 AM
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my series 8 yamaha flute (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif) I still can't get over it, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
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post Aug 3 2007, 07:46 AM
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My current clarinet. Paid £103 on eBay, had it vlaued recently at about £600! My best ever buy!
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post Aug 3 2007, 07:54 AM
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I bought a Kung bass recorder for £30. I've just bought a french horn for £60 but it hasn't arrived yet so I don't know if it is a bargain or not!
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post Aug 3 2007, 08:40 AM
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Well, I've lost out on some bargains - they so often finish when I'm out or asleep (I'm an early-to-bed person), so I have to decide on a price and go for it, then the next morning discover that I missed. I'm happier when I miss by a mile, but luckily I usually do!
Like a great bass recorder on there a while ago, I got outbid as I wanted a ludicrous bargain (well, OK, I could only afford a ludicrous bargain) - I think it went for £480 in the end which is still a bargain for a great bass really.
Or petrat's £14 garklein - I bidded on that for £7. Of course, £14 is a bargain but it's double what I offered, and thus I missed by a mile. Plus, it wasn't being advertised as a garklein (the person didn't know what they'd got, I suspect), so I didn't put in a higher bid in case I won something for lots of money that wasn't actually what I was hoping it was (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Anyway, that's the nature of auctions, sometimes you get the bargains, sometimes someone else does!

One of the things I am most pleased with - it's a rat poison bottle! It's clear glass, but on one side it is moulded so that it has a big rat on it (detailed fur, tail, etc) and a dish near the rat's mouth. I suppose so that people who couldn't read could work out what was inside. It was about $10 including postage from the US - without the postage I think it cost me about one pound! I have a mounted rat skeleton as well, that was less of a bargain, but while I'm talking about weird rat-related items I might as well let you think I'm a total weirdo (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (I have pet rats, anything rat-related I'm likely to adore).

Oh, the other thing that really delighted me an enormous amount - Descant Recorder Grade 4 pieces, Trinity, 1987-1990. Because I thought I might have taken that exam, and when I got the book (for 99p), I looked through and started humming them. I almost immediately found my List B piece - and discovered that it was the unknown piece of music that had been floating round my head on and off for 17 years! I studied the titles and vaguely remembered a conversation with my teacher, and that was my list A piece identified. I thought I'd found my list C as well...and then when I got my recorder out and played the three pieces, they were just so utterly familiar. Not that I could play them all that well (a 15 year break does that) but I knew them, I could remember them, and it confirmed my suspicions that I did take G4 descant after all (I binned my certificates and marksheets when I was 18, d'oh! Trinity couldn't confirm for me as the microfiches they haven't lost are unreadable, for exams in 1990!!)
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post Aug 3 2007, 08:54 AM
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Not sure about my best bargain. I've bought so much music off there. My most recent purchase that I'm proud of, Faure 30 Songs for high voice for about £6 in total. I looked it up on musicroom.com and it was worth £22! So quite chuffed with that. OOh just remembered got Music to becalm his fever, Hindemith and Schumann, 6 songs for 1p each!
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post Aug 3 2007, 09:10 AM
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I need to start doing some e-baying! I can never find anything I want.

I got an alto flute study book for £2 from a music sale, and it was worth £20!
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post Aug 3 2007, 09:53 AM
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QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Aug 3 2007, 10:10 AM) *

I need to start doing some e-baying! I can never find anything I want.


You do - it can be great fun. You may not find what you want straight away but keep at it - you never know what you will find!!!
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post Aug 3 2007, 10:03 AM
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My very first purchase on ebay was for a Moeck descant recorder. I paid £19, including the postage for it to come from Germany. I don't think it's one of the expensive Moecks but when I looked it up, a new one would have been about £40, so I got a bargain.

At the moment I'm waiting for my latest purchase to arrive - Anna Butterworth's Stylistic Harmony workbook, which I won earlier this week. I paid £10.50 for it, plus postage and packaging, and it's £30 new in the shops and online - so very pleased. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Aug 3 2007, 10:17 AM
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I forget the pieces of music, but my best bargain was buying 2 pieces of music, one of which I already owned, one of which I wanted. I promptly sold the one I owned for MORE than I'd paid for both (and I'd got the pair at a bargain price), leaving me with the music I wanted for less than it would've cost new and a small but significant profit. Which makes me think some people do not have the sense they were born with (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I guess the Handel which I bought with something else and then sold for more than it would have cost to get a brand new edition (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) also falls into that category!
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post Aug 3 2007, 11:07 AM
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My best musical purchase was probably a Grade 6 theory book. I think it cost me £2.20.

My best non musical purchase was a pair of hair straightners! I got them for £13 and they were retailing at the time for £80.
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post Aug 3 2007, 01:10 PM
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QUOTE(Aileen @ Aug 3 2007, 12:07 PM) *

My best musical purchase was probably a Grade 6 theory book. I think it cost me £2.20.



I got a grade 6 and 7 theory book a few weeks ago for a few pounds each. I don't know whether I'll ever get round to the grade 7 one, but you never know!
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