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What Retro Stuff have you bought on Ebay?

  • 20-12-2007 12:28pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    Going thru a bit of a purchasing blitz atm and I'm finding I'm mostly getting retro stuff which surprisingly doesn't disappoint when I get it up close presentwise.

    Here's some of my recent buys:

    "Gazza's Soccer Skills" Filmed in 1991. Gazza shows you how to play like a pro. Strange watching him so skillful and full of life before he turned into a trainwreck of a humanbeing.

    "Mexico 86" : Panini Sticker album that I was 3 stickers away from completing and to my horror later discovered had been thrown out by de ma! :mad:

    "FlipSiders" : Boardgame from MB that cleverly folded up into the shape of a cassette tape

    "Gremlins Cards" A collection of cards with bubblegum by Topps from the movie of the same name.

    So what retro stuff have you bought off ebay?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    I got a Roland GR50 Guitar Synth, best purchase ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭dylbert


    Pigman II wrote: »
    "Mexico 86" : Panini Sticker album that I was 3 stickers away from completing and to my horror later discovered had been thrown out by de ma! :mad:

    Think I still have this album somewhere though it's far from completed.

    I bought a Rubix Cube a while ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Beano Annual 1986 and a few pogs, waiting for my credit card to clear and I'll be off again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    I bought a book on Walter Mitty,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    I was going to buy some classic Lego train-set stuff from the 80's as Santa was poor when I was a kid and I never got one!

    However, just as I was about to bid, I reminded myself that I'm a grown-man and that this would end up being just so much junk to add to the attic.

    However, I did purchase a London Irish Rugby shirt (XXL of course!) 1985 vintage - black and with the Aer Lingus logo. It was as good as new and I'm too protective of it to even wear it!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Bunty and Twinkle 1980 annuals, and Just Seventeen 1987 annual.
    They were actually the only annuals I ever owned and I read them over and over again for years. So I bought them on eBay with the intention of reading them to my daughter (Not Just Seventeen, she's only 5!), but I have them safely hidden away as it just brings back memories when I read over them.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,182 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I've gone and bought all the limited release dance music stuff I could never get my hands on as a teenager from 1998-2001, got a toppling stack of cardboard slipcase covered CDs here... nearly all with "NOT FOR RESALE" printed on them :D

    Doesn't quite count as retro compared to the rest of this though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭dazberry


    Well in the early 90s (don't know how retro that counts) I couldn't affort any of those nice Patrick Eggle guitars - so this year I bought 4 early 90s models :eek:

    The only other thing with a retro connection was that I bought the two box sets of Space 1999 on DVD 'cos I used to love them as a kid in the 70s :)

    D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    Karsini wrote: »
    Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES. :)


    how much may I ask?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Sega Mega Drive II with a few games. Postage from the UK was a bit steep, but it was worth it.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    how much may I ask?
    This was about 3 years ago so can't really remember but I think it came to about £15 sterling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    MYOB wrote: »
    I've gone and bought all the limited release dance music stuff I could never get my hands on as a teenager from 1998-2001, got a toppling stack of cardboard slipcase covered CDs here... nearly all with "NOT FOR RESALE" printed on them :D

    Doesn't quite count as retro compared to the rest of this though.

    Pretty similar here as I just didn't have the pocketmoney needed to buy them back when they were available in the proper sense. Can be a nightmare tracking down the exact right version though if it is a dance CD.

    Also bought 2 monchichis for a co-worker and her sister as she was all nostalgic about them:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monchichi

    Think that's all my retro-eBaying....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Sugar Drunk


    labryinth on VHS
    My little pony and shera videos (feckin VHS player has since died on me!!)
    My little ponies
    a she ra doll
    famous five books


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭djkeogh


    Garbage Pail kids cards I used to collect as a kid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Fireman Sam Complete Collection came in the post earlier this week as did Jamie and the Magic Torch (Season 1).


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