# What was the first thing you ever bought on eBay?

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**Created:** [October 14, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-bought-on-ebay/376385 "2006-10-14T01:24:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-bought-on-ebay/376385/21 "2006-10-14T13:30:49Z")

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64 Thimbles.

Gold, silver, bone china, wooden, glass etc. etc.

I now have over 300 thimbles which once belonged to my wife…offers?

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**Author:** ![El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-bought-on-ebay/376385/22 "2006-10-14T14:06:57Z")

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A VHS Copy of _Santa Claus Conquers the Martians_ to give to \*\*Only Mostly Dead[/d] for our first Christmas as a couple. (He also got a fountain he wanted for his apartment.)

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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-bought-on-ebay/376385/23 "2006-10-14T14:19:11Z")

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[QUOTE=chowder]  
64 Thimbles.

Gold, silver, bone china, wooden, glass etc. etc.

I now have over 300 thimbles which once belonged to my wife…offers?  
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You could, oh, I don’t know…sell them on eBay?

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**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-thing-you-ever-bought-on-ebay/376385/24 "2006-10-14T14:39:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]  
March 13, 1999, I have no idea what it was.  
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Since I know you all were waiting with bated breath, and since I apparently can’t stand saying “I don’t know” - It was what I thought was a silver Masonic ring, but turned out to be only a silver plated Masonic ring.

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