Online buying & selling

Whoops! I promised myself that I was going to write every day and I already missed a day. Oh well. I won't beat myself up for it because that won't help anything, right? Right. So, I'll keep going.

I'm having a hard time concentrating because I'm watching today's Oprah. Hello! Whoa! Did you see it? Ok, I'm going to spare everyone the juicy details - and I do mean juicy - and I'll write about something more appropriate.

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I've never been too much into e-bay. I think I've bought a couple things off of there, but I wouldn't call myself an e-bay junkie. There is a certain member of our household, however, who would not be mis-labled if he were called that. I think the word obsession may have been used once or twice in reference to his involvement in this activity, as well. Not to say that there haven't been some great purchases. There have. Or that a whole lot of money hasn't been saved. It has. But I just wonder sometimes how looking at page after page after page of virtually the same item can be interesting enough to hold one's interest for such a long time. And I do mean long.

Let's start with what I've bought. I believe I've bought a couple of CDs and movies off e-bay. And boy were they cheap. I'm pretty sure they were actually from half.com, which is like a companion site to e-bay. Things are usually cheaper there, in my experience.

Mr. E-Bay Junkie, as I'll call him for now, actually hasn't bought many more items, but they are much bigger: games for his PS3 and a lot of golf equipment. So really we're probably about even in the number of purchases.

The one purchase we made together was our wedding rings. Wedding rings on e-bay? That's right. I got the idea from one of my faithful readers here who told me that she had bought a ring for her husband on e-bay when he lost his previous wedding band. We found a great set of matching wedding bands with a celtic knot design on it. You can see Rick's in this picture, and I wear mine on my right hand because my engagement ring is way too fabulous all by itself. Actually, they just don't fit on my finger together. This is basically what they look like - the design is slightly different, but not drastically.

While I'm on a kick about buying things online, I should also mention craigslist, right? Craigslist is better because you can find things that are local, but worse because there are no pictures shown as you browse. So I have an even worse time looking for things to buy there. But I did buy tickets to the Revolve Tour last year from craigslist. And we just bought a Cross Bow, which is like a BowFlex, last week. We haven't used it yet, but we got it all set up over the weekend in our office, exercise room, guest room, extra storage room. You all know what room I'm talking about, right? Everyone has one in their house, don't they?

Because of the convenience of craigslist, we have even sold a couple of things on there. The first one was my old Honda. We listed it and within less than an hour, I had received 6 phone calls inquiring if I still had it. If I still had it? The words had barely left my fingers. Of course I still had it. It sold within a week. And Rick sold his Rock Band this past weekend.

So, all in all, I guess I shouldn't be too down on the whole deal. I guess it's just the process of finding what you're looking for that I don't like. It's not that I'm impatient. Am I? No. The bottom line is that I don't see how it can be sufficiently fascinating to the point that a person will spend hours looking for an item, just to see how much it is, even if they're not really planning on buying. I guess we all have ways that we want to spend our time right? He probably doesn't see why writing is so interesting for me. Lol.