Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Addiction alert!

I made my first purchase on eBay yesterday.* It was on behalf on my mother-in-law. It's a very simple process to sign up and start bidding on things. Too simple. Dangerous in fact. One could very easily become addicted to buying and selling on eBay. It's amazing the stuff available there. As someone once said to me, you could put a pile of dog poop on auction and someone will buy it. Don't believe it? Check out this or this. Or see what this genius has managed to do on eBay. Hmmmm, perhaps I should aim for a small island in the Caribbean...




* Alas, not an exciting bidding war. My bid was the only one on the object, so I got it for the reserved price. My mother-in-law was prepared to go significantly higher, so it could have been interesting.

6 comments:

JollyRgr said...

Your sister-in-law has just started down that same slippery path....and we have a trip to pay for!!!!

mouthfulofpancake said...

Your brother-in-law LOVES ebay!!! Thank God the novelty has worn off for him now!! I did get a lovely anniversary present out of it though.

Odyssey said...

Yo bro, when are we going to hear about this trip????

Sis, has he bought dog poop?

JollyRgr said...

All will be revealed soon....but we may come visiting next May/June via a few interesting locations!!!!

JollyRgr said...

That's 2007 BTW

Odyssey said...

Cool! I'll clear out a corner of the garage for you. :-) Of course your missus can stay in the house.


Must...stay...away...from...eBay...