# Be careful what you buy off eBay **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240 "2007-08-03T03:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/21 "2007-08-03T19:02:38Z")
From the mouseover preview, I misunderstood Crafter\_Man to mean his wife had bought him a bee _costume_. I was briefly amused by the mental picture of him cleaning his guns while dressed in a big black and yellow fuzzy bodysuit. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/22 "2007-08-03T19:19:10Z")
That could give someone nightmares! _The bees! The bees just keep stinging!_ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/23 "2007-08-03T19:28:29Z")
I ebay while drinking. You should see the shit I end up with. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/24 "2007-08-03T23:10:13Z")
What’s that saying about “you get what you pay for?” Being a tenth the normal price should have been a big, red warning flag. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/25 "2007-08-03T23:12:15Z")
[QUOTE=Gatopescado] I ebay while drinking. You should see the shit I end up with. [/QUOTE] Dude, that’s awesome, as long as you have some way of limiting your spending. What if you drunkenly buy some $20,000 Revere tea service straight out of _Antiques Roadshow_? ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/26 "2007-08-03T23:20:45Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Dude, that’s awesome, as long as you have some way of limiting your spending. What if you drunkenly buy some $20,000 Revere tea service straight out of _Antiques Roadshow_? [/QUOTE] I’d hope ebay have “I was drunk” on their official list of reason why you can retract a bid. However after three of them you require approval from your AA helper to confirm any bids! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/27 "2007-08-03T23:26:56Z")
[QUOTE=John Carter of Mars] but really, are you brand new to the bee business? [/QUOTE] Yea. This year is only my third year doing it. I now have a real bee suit. $149. Worth every penny. 😃 [QUOTE=DianaG] And is there some reason you didn’t question that? Seriously… in what world can you reasonably expect to get a quality item from an anonymous person for one tenth of it’s retail price? Would you have bought it out of someone’s trunk? Then why would you buy it off ebay? [/QUOTE] Well, my wife bought it for me. I didn’t know she bought it until after it arrived. I do accept some of the blame, though. I should have questioned why it was so cheap, and looked it over more carefully! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/28 "2007-08-04T00:10:36Z")
I have a used bee-suit. No veil, though. My FIL, his father, both of his brothers–all beekeepers. Before FIL died, when he was first finding out that he had cancer, he needed help loading his bees to move them. So Himself and I went out to the fields in the evenings, and I smoked the bees, and he loaded the pallets onto the truck. The next morning before dawn, FIL would do the moving. Himself didn’t wear a suit, though, just a long-sleeve denim shirt and gloves, and a veil, but he insisted I wear one. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/29 "2007-08-04T00:18:23Z")
Excuse me for this, but I must tell you. Mrs. Garrett and I got absolutely hysterical over your OP. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/30 "2007-08-04T00:44:21Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] That must have really sucked. How many times did you get stung? [/QUOTE] Well, I’d say the biggest one was the first one, when he paid for the suit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/31 "2007-08-04T01:14:18Z")
I have a magical hat I can sell you that will keep bees from stinging you. It also exempts you from doing your taxes and makes your intestinal gases smell like pumpkin pie. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/32 "2007-08-04T01:27:51Z")
:: **Sunspace** adds another entry to the list of jobs he will never, ever do :: Live and learn, I guess. I’m glad you lived through this one. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/33 "2007-08-04T01:30:14Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] I have a magical hat I can sell you that will keep bees from stinging you. It also exempts you from doing your taxes and makes your intestinal gases smell like pumpkin pie. [/QUOTE] Does it really smell like pumpk- oh my god he farted and it went down my throat! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240/34 "2007-08-04T06:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Dude, that’s awesome, as long as you have some way of limiting your spending. What if you drunkenly buy some $20,000 Revere tea service straight out of _Antiques Roadshow_? [/QUOTE] Aw, fuck! That would be cool! Instead, I buy $1000 shit that came from the dollar store! 😃 Or worse, Russian motorcycles! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/be-careful-what-you-buy-off-ebay/414240.md?page=1)