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To ask what your best ever bargain is?

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toddyhum · 12/01/2023 23:39

I absolutely love finding a bargain. It gives me the hugest dopamine hit.

I think I've had my biggest ever bargain this week and I am absolutely over the moon.

I found an £8000 Selva furniture set on sideboard, bookcase and display cabinet on Facebook market place. The pieces are only a couple of years old.

It is all handmade in Italy and I cannot believe I managed to purchase it all for £600. I haven't stopped grinning since I picked it all up yesterday. It is the most beautiful furniture I have ever seen in my life.

Other bargains that have given me huge highs are

Immaculate Teak outdoor dining table and benches for £50 on eBay

Huge Loaf wodge velvet sofa was £4500 and found one for £600 at trade secret

I would absolutely love to know the mega special bargains you have found. Bargain sporn? I'm hoping I can get some second hand dopamine from your finds

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chimichangaz · 16/05/2023 19:23

What sort of car is it @Gtsr443 ?

caringcarer · 16/05/2023 19:55

An antique dark aged oak dining room table and 6 chairs that are very expensive looking. I got it for free. I bought a piano for a child's Xmas gift on eBay. I hired a lorry to collect it. The person selling it asked if I would like the dining room table and chairs as a person who bid for it cancelled it and she had to be out the next day as she was selling her house. Everything was packed into boxes. I gave it to my son who is absolutely thrilled with it. I didn't tell him I got it for free. All his friends think it must have cost a fortune.

Gtsr443 · 16/05/2023 19:58

chimichangaz · 16/05/2023 19:23

What sort of car is it @Gtsr443 ?

Vauxhall Zafira. It's a tank.

BrokeAssMum · 16/05/2023 19:59

My wedding dress. Price ticket of £3,500. I got it for £150 as it was from 2 seasons ago

CharlottenBurger · 16/05/2023 20:08

The office building I worked in had a charity 'bring and buy' sale one lunch time. I didn't manage to get there until it was nearly over. There was nothing much exciting, a lot of old paperbacks, shabby kid's toys, and... I was just deciding to go back to work when I saw a Tupperware container with a couple of dozen men's and women's wrist watches. They mostly looked to me like ones I had seen in Lidl for £7.99. I noticed one man's watch had a decent black strap. My partner's watch had a similar one that had recently split. The people running the sale said 'Come on everybody, time to finish, we need to cash up!'. I held up the watch and said 'How much?'. The bloke in charge said 'How much will you pay?' 'Two quid', I said. He held his hand out. I paid and left. I shoved it in my bag until I got home. Then I showed it to DP. 'Can you use this strap?'. He took one look at what I held, and said 'That's a rose gold Sekonda!' We Googled it and found it was a model still on sale for £99.99. It was pretty clean and going. I felt guilty the next day and rang the sale organiser. He said 'Don't worry about it. The cash is all paid in. You got a bargain'. It's still going after 7 years, it's had 2 batteries and a new strap.

GeraltsBathtub · 16/05/2023 20:19

A stay at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for £70 a night - normally £200+
Flights to Greece for 50p each thanks to free credit card airmiles
My piano - free off gumtree although I did have to pay £200 for two men to move it!

Helendegenerate · 17/05/2023 16:04

I've had so many good quality bargains but once was passing a furniture charity shop and saw 3 blue Christine Keeler chairs so went in expecting them to be about £20 each (they retail at £60-70 each). Stickers had £5 per chair! They obviously had no clue but to be fair they do just look like plastic and metal nothing special seats. I have always wanted some so now they are mine and go well with my little kitchen table.

coxesorangepippin · 17/05/2023 16:06

Guess jeans in tk maxx

They were about a fiver

GordanoBenito · 17/05/2023 16:20

In the good old days when last minute.com was an actual bargain, my ex and I got a 10 day half board holiday to Tunisia including flights for £99! Amazing bargain.

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