# I just finished my first ebay auction

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 13, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-first-ebay-auction/148356 "2003-01-13T19:58:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-first-ebay-auction/148356/1 "2003-01-13T19:58:05Z")

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That is to say, I sold something. I’ve never bought anything on ebay.  
Just had to get rid of a computer game I haven’t played for a while in order to get back a bit of space on my shelf (and it got me two and a half euros, too!). This ebay way seems cute to me, I think I can get accustomed to it.

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**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-my-first-ebay-auction/148356/2 "2003-01-13T20:19:14Z")

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Becareful, **Schnitte** , it gets addictive. Next thing you know you’ll be cleaning out your closets finding stuff that you no longer want but know that _someone_ on eBay would want…and then you think that maybe there’s something out there that you want, since you have all this extra income, and then you’ll get it, and it won’t be exactly what you wanted, so you’ll resell it, and then someone will give you a gift that you don’t really want/like, so you’ll sell _that_ on eBay…it goes on…

But it is rewarding to see your positive feedback building up (I just got my blue star this weekend 🙂 )