how much would you pay for this?

Robert · MIP Old Timer

how much would you pay for this?

cooncatbob · Senior Member

I'm addicted to e-bay. Everything from tools to razor blades. I sold an old fishing reel for $50 and a zippo lighter for the same. After getting sniped more then a few time I've learned to play that game too.

Rob · Senior Member

Holy parc!!... good going..

I like ebay too, but best to go on there sober...

-- Edited by Rob at 04:54, 2006-07-08

Robert · MIP Old Timer

im sober but addicted to ebay man! mind you I need to bne addicted to something rather that than booze

Sick of being sick · MIP Old Timer

I have found ebay to be a useful shopping tool, especially living way out in the boondocks where we don't have a lot of variety in our stores/shops. I have never attempted to sell on ebay(yet) but have gotten some good prices on some things. When the bidding starts to look a little silly, though, I simply go comparison shopping. Many times I have found that what the crazy bidders are offering to pay on ebay can be bought outright from amazon.com for much less!

Hey Rob, I've found that sober is the best way to do most things, not just shopping! Alcohol pretty much interferes with good judgement, regardless of whatever you are doing. (Case in point: While visiting Oregon last week, I heard of a young man who was drinking and swimming with friends along one of the many rivers running out of the Cascade Mountains. He decided to try a dive from a point about 40 feet above the river...my sympathy to his family, and may he rest in peace)

Peace in sobriety guys, Dan

Toni Baloney · MIP Old Timer

Hi Robert,

I am a Recovering "eBayer", got a kick out of this Post.

Unlike Alcohol, I did go back, (for the first time in about a year, last week) to purchase a bacon Press. It did arrive, was very cheap, and I really like the Product.

But it did not set off a Compulsion to go to eBay again, made me chuckle, becuase a few years ago, I was so "hooked". Started out that I wanted a Product, then it turned into more of a Compulsion to be the Winning Bid, and studied the "how to win the item" and became pretty successful with being the winning bid. That was when I discovered I had a PROBLEM, I would get a little "rush" at the end, when I was the winning bid. Ended up buying so much junk, in one year, looked at the situation, and just QUIT.

Have fun, and hope you make a lot of money on that keyboard, I was thinking you deserve a lot of money, after that unbelievable description you put on eBay for the viewers.

It does remain a fun place, you can get so lost in such looking up some crazy item.

This Post made me kind of miss eBay.

Hope you will let us know how it came out, and good to see you having fun with it.

Toni

Robert · MIP Old Timer

I think I have grown to collect, since xmas/.. is this right? is it another addiction that needs to be tackled.

Wren · Senior Member

Oh, Lordee, Ebay. When it first was popular, and dsl wasn't an issue yet, I would go in and by the time I realized I had an addiction I'd bought old lady hankies. HANKIES for gods sake. I have things here that I will never ever use, but I'd just cruise thru, and decide wow, I like that, and the bidding would begin. I worked to help pay for my ebay. I now belong to EBA. One minute, I was just a kind housewife/shopper, the next I was throwing little old ladies aside to outbid them, not because I needed the product but because I needed to win. It was when ruffled curtains and a case of denture cream arrived at my door along with some Flintstone china that I realized I had a problem. I hate ruffles. I have my own teeth. It was time. I turned my credit card over, and made Walmart my HP. Life has been better since.

Hey Robert, good feedback!!!

Toni Baloney · MIP Old Timer

Hi Robert and Wren,

Wren, I laughed so hard when I read your own tale of eBay, use. EBA, That's eBay Anonymous, right, hahahaha

Robert, we could start an off-shoot here, a recovery site, within a recovery site.

I think for myself, that as a Recovery Alcoholic, I have to "Keep my Velco Vest off" that's what I call it, cause I can "hook" on just about anything.

Personally, I think the way to break the habit, is just to keep selling all the stuff. You have the capacity to get your pics, and description in there. So many you could sell all the stuff you bought.

I thought about that, and the big drawback for me, was the shipping, no, I didn't want to deal with that Part.

The way I took myself out of my "so called fun addiction" was when, just like Chris,
I could see that I had all this "garbage stuff" in my closet, overflowing, and just like Chris, it was not about the item, it was about the Bidding.

When I moved from one location to another, and the only thing I had ever purchased that I really LOVED, was a stained glass Lampshade, just like a Tiffany, apple green with Red dragon flys on it, anyway, when I made the move, I left the item unpacked so I would remember to put it in my car. I forgot to put it in my car, and one of the movers, picked it up, and put it inside an upside down drum. When they arrived at my house, one of my son's friends that was helping in the move, came in and said, we had to slam on the Brakes and my lampshade was there in the street, in a million pieces. That actually turned itself into MY Blessing. That was the end of the line for ANY PURCHASES ON eBay. I even told the movers, not to worry, it was completely o.k., not to worry about it. Cause inside, I knew the addiction was simply Over.

I took them out of my Favorites, and made it hard to get back into eBay, that is how I did it.

Only you know on the inside if it an "addiction" just like we know when we have gotten "hooked on anything else" i knew it had become unhealthy, that is when I just pulled the plug on the whole thing.

I have to remember that I am not still here 'cause I'm well. I loved Justin's formula, theorically, "if the bubbles in the Middle, put some nails in it. Thanks Justin.

Hugs to all,

Baloney Brains

The 12 Steps of Recovery can be applied to any addiction.

-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 19:58, 2006-07-08