What I love about e bay
Aug. 15th, 2005 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynI think I've decided that one of the reasons I'm so bad for spending money on ebay is because the entire process is just so FUN.
It's all full of excitement, of unexpected things, and of total seredipity.
You sit in front of your computer, and it's a dull and slow day. You poke about on the internet - there's gossip on LJ, nothing on e mail, but what is there on ebay? A book you remembered the other day that you loved when you were a kid but has been out of print for years? Those books you've been hunting for that every shop tells you will take weeks to order in? A bit of clothing that you'd never have thought of for yourself, but it's only £1 to try and entire new look out of the blue?
You sit, and you ponder and then you hit the 'make a bid' button. You don't even know then if you're buying or if you're not. At what point do you give up on the item if the bidding goes up? What if it's an impulse bid and you're stuck with that £1 top in purple tie dye? The experience gets strung out if you bid close to the beginning of an auction. I spent days recently watching my 7th Sea books, watching them creep up in price, wondering and waiting.
The auction closes! You have new stuff! It's yours! Huzzah!
And finally, it all comes to a close with that most wonderous of things - the brown paper parcel. There are very few ways one gets parcels these days, I've found. Mostly with me it comes down to ebay, andmelsner who is a small pile of wonder all on his own. But the day comes when the postman knocks on the door (always a good thing) and then you have a parcel, all wrapped up and waiting to be torn apart like a minature birthday or minature Christmas.
And this is what happened to me this morning. Two packages of books from e bay, and a wedding invite fromcristobel which is exciting all by itself. That's a nice way to start the morning.
It's all full of excitement, of unexpected things, and of total seredipity.
You sit in front of your computer, and it's a dull and slow day. You poke about on the internet - there's gossip on LJ, nothing on e mail, but what is there on ebay? A book you remembered the other day that you loved when you were a kid but has been out of print for years? Those books you've been hunting for that every shop tells you will take weeks to order in? A bit of clothing that you'd never have thought of for yourself, but it's only £1 to try and entire new look out of the blue?
You sit, and you ponder and then you hit the 'make a bid' button. You don't even know then if you're buying or if you're not. At what point do you give up on the item if the bidding goes up? What if it's an impulse bid and you're stuck with that £1 top in purple tie dye? The experience gets strung out if you bid close to the beginning of an auction. I spent days recently watching my 7th Sea books, watching them creep up in price, wondering and waiting.
The auction closes! You have new stuff! It's yours! Huzzah!
And finally, it all comes to a close with that most wonderous of things - the brown paper parcel. There are very few ways one gets parcels these days, I've found. Mostly with me it comes down to ebay, and
melsner who is a small pile of wonder all on his own. But the day comes when the postman knocks on the door (always a good thing) and then you have a parcel, all wrapped up and waiting to be torn apart like a minature birthday or minature Christmas.And this is what happened to me this morning. Two packages of books from e bay, and a wedding invite from
cristobel which is exciting all by itself. That's a nice way to start the morning.