I didn’t feel this was Pit worthy so here it goes. I have only been a e-bay member a short time and so far it has been disasterous. All I wanted to do is go online and sell a few items around the house and make some extra cash. But alas I don’t think I will EVER be quite the entreprenuer that Bill Gates has become.
My first sale was a Beatles CD. It had been sitting on a bookshelf since 1996 unopened, never played, still in the shrink wrap. So I was very suprised when it sold for $18.50. So i’m off to the post office to make my first shipment. I stop to get a lollipop to stick in the package and enclose a note saying “Thanks for making this transaction so sweet”, you know add a little special touch, go the extra mile. I get to the post office and I’m so excited that in my haste I lock the keys in my car. Whoa-boy. It took 2 hours for the locksmith to arrive not including the time it took to hike to the nearest pay-phone. I was so embarrassed when he got into my car, I didn’t want to go in THAT Post Office and make the shipment, so I go to another one. I’m closing the package with the sucker and I hear this crack. It wasn’t the sucker, it was the case on the CD. Eee-gads that damn lollipop was getting the last laugh. And if I hadn’t just spent .30 cents to buy it I would have smashed it into a million pieces just for the sheer pleasure of letting off some steam. So I had to enclose a note with that and explain, the guy was really cool about it.
Then I receive the first item I bought off of e-bay in the mail. I’m really excited, just like a kid in a candy store grinning from ear to ear. I make a stop on the way home to get something to go with my package, wasn’t away from the car 10 minutes and come out to find my 1st parking ticket ever attached to the windshield of my car for not putting change in the meter. I sent Knoxville Police Department their money yesterday.
I had stopped at a yard sale 2 weeks ago. I see a Sopranos VHS tape and think “This could bring some money”. So I bring it home pop it in the VCR give it a spot checking to make sure I didn’t get someones “Home Video” if you know what I mean. Deem it is in working condition and put it on e-bay. The buyer gets it in the mail and is happy with his purchase. He goes to play the tape and realizes the jacket cover is for episodes 7,8,9 but the tape is for episodes 1,2,3. Good grief is there no end to this? Can’t I do anything right? I have offered a refund and he is refusing it. Told me not to worry about it. Glad to know I am dealing with people that are so understanding.
All the while I’m seeing $$$ signs go out the window instead of coming in. I’ve thought about throwing in the towel, but I am hooked. I’m an e-bayaholic. I’m coming in from 12 hr shifts drinking espresso staying up half the night just to see what I can buy or sell. What more can I say? Oh I know what…
< Frank Sinatra voice> “I DID IT EEEEE-BAAAAAY”
