Thursday, June 01, 2006

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

I am so glad I took an afternoon train instead of one in the evening, because it's been raining buckets for a while now, with much lightning and thunder, the ferocious, right on top of us, sets off car horns type of lightning strikes. And instead of schlepping my suitcase the 6 blocks home from the subway in that wetness, I'm sitting here freshly showered and cool with the A/C on. Go me.

Came home to much... stuff. Boxes with various eBay wins. Magazines. Junk mail. A birthday card. Nearly 2 weeks of newspapers to skim (cartoons and sports news mostly).

I'll type up my con report in next day or so, complete with photos. Much fun was had and folks loved the Mal photos we put up on the hotel room door at the con. But the best part is, I'm still on VACATION! Til Wednesday! [insert huge grin here]

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:01 PM

    I've always been intrigued by the e-bay culture that has arisen. You call them "wins." Like they're prizes or something. I call them purchases.

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  2. ShellyS10:34 PM

    The buy-it-now items were indeed purchases, but the auction items were wins. There was no guarantee I'd get them unless I outbid or had better bidding strategy than the other bidder(s). I'm a careful bidder, but I love auctions. I prefer voice auctions, and won a couple of nice pieces (art and jewelry) at the con I was at, plus 6 of my decoupaged boxes went to auction and went for more than the last bid on the bidsheets. That's very cool.

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  3. Anonymous11:24 PM

    That's why auctions are so successful as a form of selling. They create an artificial sense of demand for a product, and elicit higher prices than might otherwise be justified.

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  4. ShellyS11:29 PM

    Yes and no. I've gotten fan art and jewelry at auctions for far less than I've expected and less than the pieces are worth given what other pieces by those artists go for or what they charge for commissions.

    The fun is getting a piece for less than you want to spend while outbidding and out-maneuvering the other bidders.

    And I never buy anything I don't want in the first place. eBay has been great for finding action figures no longer in stores now that I want them, for ex.

    Sure, some people get carried away, but there are those of us who are careful.

    Did I pay more for one of the Little Golden Books I "won"? Sure, but after not finding it for over 30 years of digging through children's books in antique stores and having a search service fail to turn it up in the '80s, eBay came through and the book is well worth the price I paid for the memories it brought back.

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