Good news of sorts

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Am I a bad person to be pleased by this?

Neverwhere ended up at £26 plus £2 postage, and the buyer has already paid. Which surprised me considerably because it cost me £14.65 plus £2 postage. Can't believe that people don't check Amazon and other prices before they bid on eBay, but it's far from the first time I've seen something like this happen.

I'm tempted to buy another and see if it happens again, but with my luck it'd end up selling for £4.99 or something...

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[heliograph.livejournal.com]

If it is on eBay it must be cheaper than on Amazon, right?

Also, just because they paid doesn't mean your adventure is over. For all you know, a three year old bought it.

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Yup.

I wanted a radio controlled wall clock yesterday, looked at ebay and saw several at £11 plus postage. Then checked Argos (don't know if you've come across them - they're basically a mail order catalogue company with shops where you can buy most of the stuff in the catalogue) and found that they had the same clock at £8.99 and another (actually nicer in my opinion) at £7.99 - bought that one on my way home and it's working fine.

The parents of any three year old who is allowed access to a computer for the several hours between the last bid and the end of the auction and payment deserve everything they get.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/5379930.stm

News item on 3-year old buying a car on eBay (dunno if you've seen it already).

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Yes, I saw it - needless to say I am VERY careful about logging off, even though I don't have any kids.

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Just remembered another silly one - I have a favourite search for accessories for my elderly microscope, and got a notification yesterday. It turned out to be a CD containing PDFs of the instruction manuals at £4.99 plus £3.00 postage. They're almost impossible to find as books... but if you look carefully at the CD picture on ebay you can see the name of the company that sells it - and when I checked their price was £4 plus £2 postage!