.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

It finally happened, people. After years of not understanding eBay, and why it is possible to become addicted to it, I now feel that I can stand up and say that I, myself, am an eBay addict.

It happened so fast. I can't believe it. C got bidding last weekend for a birthday present for K's daughter, which I thought was sweet. Then I rolled my eyes and yawned a lot when she kept saying things like "I'm just going to check if I've been outbid", then staring in excitement at the computer for an hour, and then shouting swear words when she realised someone else was crazy enough to pay £50 for a doll's skirt (well, not quite, but you get the picture!)

This nicely supported my theory that people on eBay had no self control and wasted money buying useless items. So I sat back and laughed. And watched while the postman delivered parcels to our house 3 times in one week.

Eventually, after seeing C sit at her computer staring, swearing and flexing her PayPal account for the 100th time, I texted K, "Please make it stop!". K was very unhelpful. "If you can't beat them, join them," she said. I thought this was rather dangerous advice, and ignored...

... until C fell in love with something online, and said she wanted it for her birthday...

... so I joined them...

... and now I HAVE FOUR BIDS GOING! I was right about the self control thing :-|

PLEASE, somebody, MAKE IT STOP!