# The last thing I bought on Ebay was... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488 "2004-07-16T21:15:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/41 "2004-07-17T12:26:08Z")
A signed, leather-bound Easton Press edition of Harlan Ellison’s _Deathbird Stories_ for $68.00, for my best **fiend** ’s 2004 Christmas present. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/42 "2004-07-17T12:44:21Z")
Polaroid J66. Folding camera,pack style film. If any Dopers have old Polaroid stuff you wish to sell my e-mail is in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/43 "2004-07-17T12:50:42Z")
A British Weight Watchers Christmas cookbook. I collect WW Cookbooks, and have obtained 17 from this one seller. Before that I got a poster for Aspects of Love starring **Roger Moore**. Since Moore never actually performed the show, it was a steal at $20. ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/44 "2004-07-17T14:27:15Z")
A 10-inch Wonder Woman figurine for my kid. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/45 "2004-07-17T16:50:33Z")
A Palm V with cradle, cover, and two styluses all for $33 (shipping included). ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/46 "2004-07-17T17:02:06Z")
An emerald ring. ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/47 "2004-07-17T17:20:09Z")
A VHS copy of the [Star Wars Christmas Special](http://www.ohthehumanity.com/review.php3?ID=411). Why did I do that??? My eyes! My eyes! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/48 "2004-07-17T19:41:01Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > An autographed picture. Okay, I’ll bite. Of whom? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/49 "2004-07-17T20:54:54Z")
A pair of coral cameo earrings for my mom’s birthday at $20. ---
**Author:** ![siberia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/siberia/32/9129_2.png) [@siberia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siberia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/50 "2004-07-17T21:33:32Z")
A first edition, signed hard copy of Lila by Robert M. Pirsig. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/51 "2004-07-17T23:22:41Z")
A Fire King Peach Lustre creamer with lid for $4.99 (not including S&H) for my sister. It wasn’t a gift, she doesn’t want to open her own account. She tells me what she wants and how much she’ll pay. If it’s not Fire King stuff for her, it’s Happy Bunny stuff for LilMiss. I haven’t made many purchases (10 total, I think?), but only one was for me. A Ramones CD. ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/52 "2004-07-17T23:43:57Z")
My lovely wife has bought almost every Disney movie ever and a boatload of angel “stuff”. I’ve bought…ziltch. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/53 "2004-07-18T18:29:23Z")
Can’t believe I’m admitting this. Anti-aging hand cream, $4.25 including shipping. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/54 "2004-07-18T22:12:59Z")
SO freaking glad you asked! I’ve been over the moon about a purse that I bought and greatly overpaid for a twenty year old vintage no-name ‘designer’ leather bag that has some wearing on it. But dammit, I _wuv_ it. It is ( and doper chicks will understand this) the end of _The Holiest Grail For Wimmen_ ::::::Cue Gong:::::: **The Ultimate Purse**. TM/LLC/All Rights Reserved. I am so farking stoked about this purse that I bought good leather cleaner/conditioner for it, rubbed it lovingly, gently laid it in the sunshine to dry, put my belongings inside it and when I drive somewhere, it sits in my passenger seat perfectly. I glance over it at it and give a contented loving sigh. It, for me, is a portable orgasm. Mr. Ujest was not amused, but since I only buy from ebay about every other month and this is the most expensive thing I’ve bid on and won and I promised that I won’t buy another purse again until the next bestest purse comes along for a realllllly long time. Pardon me, I have to go off and stroke my purse. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/55 "2004-07-18T22:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Four soup plates in the china pattern I’m trying to get a full set of. > > God, what an ugly sentence. Let me try again: I have a china pattern. I’m trying to get a full set of dishes. I bought four soup plates. The first sentance made perfect sense in the world I live in. Me sprechen sie fragmented thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@Fritz\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz_The_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/56 "2004-07-18T22:42:19Z")
A 1957 hardback copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/57 "2004-07-18T22:43:06Z")
A (possibly pirated?) DVD of _The Twelve Tasks of Asterix_, for my sister. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/58 "2004-07-18T22:46:56Z")
50 hematite rings and 50 abalone rings, as a gift for a friend who’s going to be in need of a box of trinkets to give as gifts to others. ---
**Author:** ![Den\_Mum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@Den\_Mum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Den_Mum)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/59 "2004-07-18T22:52:05Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > The first sentance made perfect sense in the world I live in. Me sprechen sie fragmented thoughts. We must be next door neighbors in the world you live in, it made perfect sense. Let’s see…the last two things I bought on Ebay were an extra sync cable for my PDA and a second battery for my Olympus C-5060 Digi cam. Both very inexpensively priced. I also bought the new camera on Ebay, not so inexpensive but still a good price! However, I am off now to look for a purse and it is all the **Shirley Ujest’s** fault. 🙂 Actually, it doesn’t take much to send me searching ebay for something wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488/60 "2004-07-18T23:00:27Z")
**Den Mum** Yeah, you can blame me, but secretly, you heard the sirens call that is Ebay and you know you cannot resist. It’s like it’s wafting chocolate through the computer screen at us. And I am going to be a good girl and not buy anything until at least september. But, I plan to sell a bunch of stuff once school is back in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-thing-i-bought-on-ebay-was/255488.md?page=4)