Friday, March 26, 2004
Too cheap for E-bay
At least that's the going theory.
I don't know how many times I have browsed E-Bay and decided that it was just not right for me. A couple days ago, though, I decided to give it a shot. It took me about an hour to get registered, since I had a heck of a time selecting a screen name, and I don't like to use the random ones they try to generate for you.
Even so, I managed to get registered, and after about three moments where I almost bid on something, I cautiously did place my first bid. It was promptly outbid. It took a couple more days, but here I am, now, with a few auctions I'm watching. And watching carefully.
I just kept leaving and coming back to E-Bay because, while one can find great prices on many things, there are a great deal of them I can find for just as inexpensively by the time one factors in shipping. So I've just ignored it, but the other day I came up with a whole bunch of things that might be worth purchasing if I could find them for the right price--and E-Bay, I have discovered, is certainly the place to look for stuff you wouldn't think you could normally find elsewhere. It's amazing what people sell--and, I suppose, what people will buy.
The other thing I noticed that E-Bay is good for is slowing down time. I guess I've only been watching these couple auctions for a few days out of their seven-day postings, but that time moves very slowly. I keep looking at the auctions and thinking, "Jeez, is there really that much time left?" Yes, there is, and 1 day plus so many hours does not just mean, "it's almost over"; it can also mean "you're telling me there's nearly two days left on this dang auction?" or, "you're telling me there's nearly two days left on this dang auction, and this stupid thing is that expensive already?"
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