Last night I woke up at 2 a.m. so I could snipe an eBay auction I got outbid on earlier in the week. Even after ten years of working rotating shifts and being a new baby daddy I still hate getting up in the middle of the night although I'm quite good at it. I got up all grumbly and when I finally sat down at teh computer I saw that the item got bid up to $13 and change. It might not seem like a lot but we're talking about a small one inch square sticker of Mixmaster the Constructicon that came in cereal boxes in 1985. The guy who outbid me had like 400 feedback and I sensed he was willing to go high so I'd have to beat him and then pay an additional $4 in shipping. The thrill of competition gets me pumped, though and I was all ready to enter my bid of $25 with 10 seconds left to go. Then it hit me-I was up at 2:30 in the morning so I could ensure I had the honor of paying upwards of $30 for a little sticker of a robot with self esteem issues. Screw that! I went back to bed, a little ashamed of what I was about to do and proud of myself for not having gone through with it. Now tonight at 2:30 a.m. there's a Skywarp sticker auction ending and Mixmaster be damned, you better believe I'm winning that one.
5 comments:
Dude, auctionstealer.com. No more waking up at 2 in the morning to snipe auctions.
Wow, $13.25 for a tiny sticker. Magic motion is cool, but come on. And why is the shipping $3.66? The thing weighs less than half an ounce.
There is a certain excitement I find in pulling the trigger myself. There's nothing like the adrenaline rush I get from wondering if I will have bid enough with only a couple of seconds left. I like to do the countdown to the end of an auction with two windows open-one I constantly refresh and the other with my bid ready to go. It's an indescribably rush. I can't explain it. It's like when Luke fired his proton torpedo to blow up the Death Star. He turned the targeting computer off. I won't let the machines take that from me!
And Rob, the other sticker I was talking about-the Skywarp-went for $27.75! And they were both to the same guy. He really wanted them more than I did if he paid a total of $41 for both of them before shipping.
I'm a victim of "slow dial-up." For me, there's nothing like hitting refresh on my webpage and waiting...and waiting...and waiting...and seeing that the auction ended three minutes ago. Shit.
So the winning bidder ended up paying $48.32 for two tiny stickers. I wish I had saved all of my stickers growing up. I didn't know they'd be such a great investment.
Heavyarms, a dial-up connection in 2007 is torture. Actually, it was torture even back in 1997.
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