Try code HAPPY25 on eBay. You might get $25 off on eBay.

[RH | 5,240]

I just got an email from eBay.  I had joined in 1999 and it basically said "Thanks for being with us since the beginning.  Here's $25 off of your next purchase."  Um, what?!  So, I just dropped a few bucks on a +$25 item and sure enough, the code worked.

It wasn't a special code and I didn't click on a link either.  Obviously, I haven't been with them for 25 years since I joined in 1999, but who knows, maybe this code works for everyone and they just sent it to the people that joined before 2000 or something like that.

Thanks eBay!  If you're wonder what I bought, I've been eyeing Turok for the Switch for a while.  Nothing amazing but I'll take it "for cheap" after a discount like that.  Give it a try and let me/us know if it works for you.  Oh, the email also had stats for my usage of eBay and told me some of my "firsts".  Here are a couple highlights.

Joined: 10-16-1999

First Purchase: Economics, 15th Ed. McConnell. (Sticking it to the overpriced book resellers!)

First Sale: Mortal Kombat for Game Gear (11-02-2001)

First Offer: Nintendo Red Hoodie (12-27-2005) (I still have it too!)

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,125]

I got one this morning too. Apparently whatever you buy has to be at least $25.01 since it wouldn't work for me when I tried to buy a $24 item with it. 

 

 

Edited September 1, 2020 by Bearcat-Doug

[guitarzombie | 937]

Hot dang thats a good deal.  I gotta figure out something I want!

[captmorgandrinker | 1,656]

I tried a couple days ago with no luck.   I'll try it again.

[BlackVega | 583]

Does this mean I can get a discount -100% once my account turns 100 years old??

[LtCasual | 27]

I got one as well! Interesting to see the old data from way back when:

 

Joined on 4-6-2000

First purchase -  Blue Man Group Audio DVD Surround Mix SEALED on 4-9-2002.

First sale - Intel Pentium II 350 MHz CPU W/HSF, No Resrv! on 1-14-2002.

Edit: That info isn't accurate, I have record of when I sold my wisdom teeth on there and that was in 2001.

Edited September 1, 2020 by LtCasual

[austin532 | 469]

ebay was created in 1995 but the site didn't really become what it is today until like 98 so I guess they figure close enough? Here is a capture from 2007. $207 for a sealed Contra? $52 for a sealed TMNT II? $50 for a sealed Bomberman? Good lord I miss those prices.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070817102616/http://video-games.listings.ebay.com/_Games_Nintendo-NES_W0QQa14Z24221QQalistZa14QQcurcatZtrueQQgcsZ1135QQpfidZ1413QQsacatZ62053QQsocmdZListingItemList

 

Edited September 1, 2020 by austin532

[RH | 5,240]

11 minutes ago, VegaVegas said:

Does this mean I can get a discount -100% once my account turns 100 years old??

This isn't a percent.  It's $25.  So... it's already 100%, so long as the value of the item is $25 or less.

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,043]

I tried a couple days ago and it didn't work. I tried it again and it still isn't active. 

[RH | 5,240]

14 minutes ago, LtCasual said:

Edit: That info isn't accurate, I have record of when I sold my wisdom teeth on there and that was in 2001.

Yeah, I'm not sure it is.  My guess is they didn't start keeping records until after 2000 or something.  My first item was bought a year after I created an account and, now that I think about it, I know I had bought a Rickenbacker 330 off of there shortly after and I also distinctly recall my first purchase being an original release, sealed Rubik's cube because at that time I still thought that sealed collectibles were super rare. Well,  you know.  Ebay changed that when they made the market international rather than just local. 

[guitarzombie | 937]

I got the message.  My first purchase was a Corvette Model in 2001, even though I joined in 2000.  Im really having trouble thinking of what to buy since I got everything I really wanted.  Trying to think outside the box, like xbox one, or switch, or even weird DVDs

[Reed Rothchild | 9,968]

Damn I switched accounts at some point.  Time to test out old emails.

[Silent Hill | 290]

Worked for me! Been with eBay since 2007. 

Was able to get a solid deal for 2 of the last 9 games I needed for the full US Dreamcast set. 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,125]

1 hour ago, RH said:

This isn't a percent.  It's $25.  So... it's already 100%, so long as the value of the item is $25 or less.

It has to be at least $25.01 or it won't work.

[BreaKBeatZ | 136]

Interesting first purchase - I wish I had kept collecting NES games! I was ahead of the curve in 2001, but sold this game and most of the rest I had collected. I started up again in 2013.

I actually started using ebay earlier but had that account banned for selling virtual items in Everquest.

[ZeldaFreak | 3,747]

Didn't work for me, although I had to switch accounts in 2014 and I have no recollection of the login details to my previous account, so I'm probably SOL on the code.

[TDIRunner | 2,922]

Didn't work for me.  I tried two items that added up to greater than $25, and then I tried one item over $25 and neither situation worked.

Member since 9/8/2002

Not sure how you guys are looking up your sales history.  My feedback goes back to the beginning, but I don't see any links to the information on those sales.  

 

 

 

 

[TrekMD | 1,504]

I got an email with the coupon as well.  I joined Ebay in 2000! 

[Magus | 169]

Lame, i joined in 2002 and didn't get one  

[Tabonga | 2,533]

I don't remember when I signed up on ebay.  I didn't get the email - but  the code worked for me (I got a new copy of Animal Crossing - New Horizons for half off.)

Mega thanks to the OP

[JVOSS | 1,774]

i joined in 98 wow to be old and wise.  

edited

It worked for me.  where you get your first buy and first sale.

 

Edited September 2, 2020 by JVOSS

[DK | 278]

Sweet, I found the coupon in "My Messages"

 

You registered on 11-30-1998

First Purchase: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure T-Shirt XL on 1-27-2002.

First Sale: PS2 Playstation 2 New Sealed Free Shipping!!! on 12-17-2001.

 

Wow, I was a seller before being a buyer? That doesn't sound right. I definitely bought some things in 1999/2000.

 

Says: Ends 9/10. Min. spend $25.01. Special offer just for you.

 

Edited September 2, 2020 by DK

[Gloves | 12,286]

OOF.

So cringe.

[Dr. Morbis | 2,121]

2 hours ago, TDIRunner said:

Not sure how you guys are looking up your sales history.

eBay sends you a message with all of their erroneous information.  I joined in 2000 but it said my first purchase was in late 2001; man, by that point I was already at like 40 feedbacks from buying so much stuff.  They were wrong on my first item sold too, so I don't think they started saving auction info until the early 2000's.  They did add a disclaimer in the message that the info wasn't right but was "close enough."

What I liked more than the info was the pie charts of what types of items I've bought and sold over the years.  Anyway, thanks eBay!  Here's to another twenty years....

[TDIRunner | 2,922]

1 minute ago, Dr. Morbis said:

eBay sends you a message with all of their erroneous information.  I joined in 2000 but it said my first purchase was in late 2001; man, by that point I was already at like 40 feedbacks from buying so much stuff.  They were wrong on my first item sold too, so I don't think they started saving auction info until the early 2000's.  They did add a disclaimer in the message that the info wasn't right but was "close enough."

What I liked more than the info was the pie charts of what types of items I've bought and sold over the years.  Anyway, thanks eBay!  Here's to another twenty years....

I figured that out once I saw Gloves post.  I checked my messages, but I didn't get it.  I had a handful of things I was interested in too.  Oh well.