I wanted to rant about something in this topic, but instead I'll turn it into a discussion, 'cause it's better that way.
E-Bay. Some love it. Some hate it. But one is sure, you can get nice things, sell your junk, and even make unexpected profits from something you thought was completely useless.
My brother in law for example found some old amplifier valves amoungst the junk that me and my partner cleared out from the shed (my dad used to play around with radios a lot in his youth). He thought they might be useful for someone, and said that it'd be a shame for them to go in the bin, so he auctioned them off on E-Bay expecting to get £5 for them.
It turned out that they were rare and very sought-after. A bidding war took place, and the price quickley rose. They were eventaully bought by someone from Wales who paid my bro in law just under £200. . .
Not bad for a peice of junk, huh?
Some e-bay experiances aren't so good though. For example I've been wanting to buy the English version of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath for a while now, since I have access to the German version (it belongs to my partner) and would like to play the game in English.
I don't wanna pay more then £5 or £6 including P&P to get something I already own in a different language. So I watch a few auctions of SW. There's one which is going at a low price, so I aim to go onto E-Bay in the evening when the Auction is about to end, in the hope I can snipe it. I don't bid on it when I discover it though, otherwise the price may rise.
I come back to my PC in the evening to try sniping it. No pages load or anything. It seemed my internet decided to go all la-la on me and not work anymore at a time I really needed it, and I had to wait 2 hours for the ISP to re-set. It hadn't done that in over 3 months until then. Really awesome and brillant, eh? :P
None the less, when the 'net came back, I missed out on my auction, and that copy of SW was bought by someone else for £2.50 (the price I wanted to buy it at), simply because I couldn't get online to bid on it. I keep finding other copies of SW, but they're all being sold for £8 or £10 including P&P, which is fair enough, but I already own SW in German, etc. (anyone wanna sell me a copy of SW for £5 or £6 including P&P? lol)
It's probably not the most annoying thing in the world, but still kinda crappy and enough to make me feel very bitter toward my ISP and my luck in general, even if it wasn't E-Bay's fault. But don'tcha just hate it when things like this happen anyway? :P
So what's everyone elses experiances with E-Bay like? Have you made some real profits or had a memorable bidding war? Seen any interesting items? Share your experiances.
Ah, the joys of E-Bay.
But when it arrived it only had disc 2 and Abe's Oddysee. What about disc 1?!? So after all of that I had to buy the game at a store. =___= 
