[Closed] What's the furthest you have gone for an ebay sale, or a buyer has come to you?

Sold a fiat punto for about £1200. Wasn't a particular bargain but a guy from Bournemouth bought it. He flew up to Glasgow and drove it home.

I hired a van and travelled 320 miles (640m round trip in one day costing £170) to collect an original 1970's parker knoll copy of a Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona sofa for a very good price, T'iz a bit different to a fridge freezer though?, some ebay'ers are just friggin nuts.

Furthest I've travelled for a pick up is Glasgow to Boston and back in a day to pick up some woodworking machinery and a pallet truck.

Furthest a buyer has come is a guy bought an MOT failure van (with failed injector seals and injectors that were un-budgeable, and something really not right with the steering - all fully described in the listing) off me for £350. I bought it a year or so earlier in good order with tax and mot for £340. He flew from Germany to Edinburgh, train to Glasgow, collected the van then had to drive it (it was barely drivable) to Newcastle, take the ferry to Holland then drive it on back to somewhere in the south of Germany

All in it must have cost him in the region of £600 round trip. I'm not entirely sure he got the bargain he hoped for.

I sold a motorbike to someone in the UK; I live in the Isle Of Man.

He came over for the bike, rode around the TT course for the day and kipped in our spare room for the night before getting the ferry back the next morning.

I then once got a coach from Liverpool to Bristol to buy an Escort RS2000 unseen. The trip took hours, but it paid off in the end.

sold a tool box (Snap-On Subaru) to someone, collected at midday, said they had set of at 4:30am, didn't really enquire where this were from

collected at midday, said they had set of at 4:30am, didn't really enquire where this were from

Its a bit like the joke about an american rancher explaining to an irish farmer how big his farm is - "it take me from dusk til dawn to drive just to drive all the way round the perimeter" and the irish farmer replies - 'yeap, I've got a car like that too.'

Your buyer didn't travel far, his car is just shagged, thats why he bought the toolbox 🙂

A buyer drove from Nottingham to Exeter to pick up the car he'd won. Felt a bit sorry for his mate who drove him there and then had to turn around and drive back. Was only about £2500 I think.

I flew from London to Edinburgh to buy a 307SW & drove it home, saving £1000. The seller picked me up from the airport, back to his place, he didn't count the cash and I left with a packed lunch.

I sold my camper to a guy in Germany!
I picked him up from the train station and he drove it back to Germany!

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my dad said "why don't you pick him from the station in it?"

"are you mad? it'll probably break down!"

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I flew to Berlin to pick up a van I bought on ebay.de

and drove it home the same day all in one hit (was a looooong day !)

Couldn't have bought it at home as the model I wanted was never sold here.

Maybe he just happens to be up that way Rockhopper. I've collected some van doors fromRotherham, 3 hours from me, but I was passing on the way back from York so really on a 10 minute detour.

When I was living in Manchester, I bought a mini in South London. I took the coach down on the same day as the anti-Iraq war protest. It was hell.

Then, on the drive home, I overheated on the M40. Thankfully, the RAC picked me up, and drove me and the car back to Manchester.

'sold'a bike frame to a bloke from Madrid. thought nothing of it and was about to relist when we got a phone call from the local petrol station .. they had a spanish chap there with my name and address on a piece of paper.

sold a model yacht to a guy from london..he came to rochdale ( and back) in a taxi to pick it up.. yacht was 500 quid the taxi driver looked happy!

My dumb ****wit of a friend bought a cast iron table with no top from somebody in Exeter took me 4 hours round trip to pick it up.

This has changed the way I help people out and you find out your real friends are too.

Carlisle to Cardiff then back again with a 15 min stop in between.

Oxford to Norwich to pick up a Nike hydraulic drafting table (amazing!) and Oxford to Worcester to pick up snow tyres. Both trips well worth it.

sold a motorbike to someone from Poland. It turned out they had won 11 bikes, all 90's sportbikes, gsxr,zxr etc. Came with a van and trailer and tavelled the country to pick them all up.
sold for a fair price and they paid cash, all happy. I still wonder how much these bikes were worth back in Poland though.

I was on holiday in Barmouth and travelled to Canterbury for a pair of wheels. I live in Poole.

I'm driving from Maidstone to Teeside on Weds to pick up a minibus.

Have done plenty of long distance trips to collect items, but usually combine them with visits/meetings etc

Not Furthest but my Longest was A Round Trip to London to Pick up a 2500CC engine that I was planning to Megasquirt and fit in my Triumph Vitesse.

That was the rainy day that sparked off those floods in 2007. I was very late home and could not get to the FOD to drop the van back off when I finally made it back into Gloucestershire.

I never fitted the Engine. Wife selfishly got pregnant and that was the end of that 🙂

Sold my motorbike to a guy in Poland. Drove all the way to North Wales with a single bike trailer, collected it and drove all the way home. Top bloke

Sold a 206cc to a guy from Southampton (I'm in Sunderland). Ebay automatic listing details said it had a radio cassette (it had a cd player). Guy wanted £50 off the price because it had a cd player!
I said no, he still bought it but looked quite disappointed as he drove away with his bag of cassettes!

First thing I ever sold on Ebay was a well used Volvo estate which had been used as a builders van whilst renovating my first house, I live in Ulverston, he lived in Cheddar Gorge!. 10 -12 hr round trip, made him and his wife a brew and off they went. His feed back said "car ok, best brew I've ever had.....well chuffed".

I sold a bike on here last week.

I drove it from Glasgow to Lancaster and the very nice lad drove to meet me from St Helens.

(i needed to go to Lancaster anyway, so just took the car instead of the train, so this may be cheating 🙂 )

drove SW scotland to chester for the daughters first bike - was a bit of a bargain and the guy couldn't courier it.

did it in biodiesel so only cost me my time and about £20 fuel

Furthest I've gone about 70 miles to get a car bought for the brother inlaw.
Furthest anyone has come to collect, well a bloke came from Bangor in wales to dorset in order to collect some alloy wheels only for him to only want 1 of the 5 he'd bought, he explained this paid for them and left the rest for me to resell, and as a set of 4 fetched more than I'd sold them for first time around.
Had a couple travel from Lincolnshire to Dorset which was about 5 hours drive according to them to collect some aquarium rocks they had bought for £20 ish the fuel on top must have come to more than they were worth new.

I sold a bike to a guy who's uncle was a long distance lorry driver. I met him in a nearby motorway service station and he said he then had to drive down to cornwall with it, so I guess about 150-180 miles or something.

I had one guy turn up in a tiny car to take a bed back with him, a journey of about 80 miles. Obviously he knew how big the bed was (it was one of those special beds that has an electronic moveable mattress. So when he realised it wouldn't fit in he asked me to drive it back to his house for him. I said no. He came back a week later with a transit van. The driving around and hiring must have cost him a fortune.

Astra Van with beggared injector pump, got £400 more than I'd expected and the guy drove from South Wales to Sheffield for collection. We were both chuffed.

Bought a 1979 VW T25 Westfalia off ebay.de.

They're way cheaper over there and all the Westfalias are LHD anyway so made no difference. Flew over to Dusseldorf, picked it up and then drove to Bavaria to visit friends then drove it back to Aberdeen.

Mate sold his SX Trail to a guy in Romania once. Bloke arranged a "courier" for it which was basically him and a mate who came over to the UK to pack it up and take it back in a plane.

Thought that was a bit nuts.

Bournemouth to Peterborough for a set of old wheels from
my kart days.

Shrewsbury to Norwich to collect a sea kayak for my wife, Shrewsbury to Stirling to collect a sea kayak for me.

Sold my Cove Stiffe to a guy from London, he drove all the way up to my place - Monifieth in Scotland for it!

She was a beauty tho! 🙂

Astra Van with beggared injector pump, got £400 more than I'd expected and the guy drove from South Wales to Sheffield for collection. We were both chuffed.

Possibly him more than you - what is often shows up on the diagnostics as a duffed Injector pump (and a £1000 bill) is actually just a dry solder in the EDU.

(says owner of Astra Van who's just resoldered his EDU)

A mate bought a downhill bike from a chap who lived somewhere near Winchester.

It was a fair trek down from Ulverston, and then after we collected it, I carried on driving across to Newquay for a week long holiday at Smugglers Haven.

I think it was a 14 hour drive altogether, the bike was a bargain though, and the holiday was great!

I drove down to Romfrd from Lincoln on friday to buy a door for a van. Made a weekend of it, visited some friends in reading, rode in teh Chilterns and then did more visting in Dunstable.
How cool is that? Romford, Reading and Dunstable in one weekend! Bet you are all really jealous.

I've been all over the country picking up string. She'd bid on something then ask if there was any mtbing nearby. Then we'd make a weekend of it - she gets string, I get to go riding - win/win.

This was before we had kids mind 🙂

I went through to Ayrshire to pick up a radial arm saw last week. It's like the wild west out there. Within a minute of meeting the vendor he was trying to sell me red diesel. 😯

I delivered a sofa a couple of hundred miles. Made more money on the diesel costs than the sofa I think 😀

I once drove from Leeds to blackburn for 99p worth of fibreboard. I was going to ride lee quarry whilst I was out that way but had recently had surgery on my back, so just got my 3 sheets of board and went home. Had a guy from London come up to Leeds on a Tuesday night to pay 102 quid for my old xr2.

Strathaven (South Lanarkshire) to Wigan and back a few weeks ago for a very nice 2008 Merlin Malt 1. Brilliant bike in brilliant nick.

380 mile round trip. Totally worth it.

Loads

Buyer flew from London to Edinburgh to collect car
Buyer drove from Aberdeen to Ilkley for a bed *
Buyer drove from Cambrdige to Ilkley for a bin *
Buyer drove from Derby to Ilkley for a butchers trolley **
I drove to Leeds from London to get an Orange Patriot***

* I think they were passing
** Thought I lived in Ikleston, not Ilkley 🙂
*** I was passing

west cornwall to south wales to pick up a smev unit for my camper build... it gave me an excuse to stay up that way for a few days and get in some riding at afan.