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zcat_abroad) wrote2012-08-09 05:36 pm
zcat_abroad) wrote2012-08-09 05:36 pm
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How To Accidentally Buy a Spinning Wheel
Step 1: Go browsing on Trademe (NZ's answer to etzy).
Step 2: Stumble into the 'Craft -> Spinning' section.
Step 3: See a lovely little up-right with a starting price of $50. (A similar one is over $500 new!)
Step 4: Think 'It'll go for over $100, but it can't hurt to put a bid in'.
Step 5: Bid $50, and resolve not to go any higher, because there's precious little room in our home. But if it goes for $50, it would be a shame not to own it.
Step 6: Forget about it.
Step 7: See that, 24 hours out from the close of the auction, you're still 'leading'.
Step 8: Gulp - where are we going to put it? Sorry - where am I going to put it? (Zcc is absolved of all involvement in this process.)
Step 9: Be unable to check the net for about 12 hours after the auction has run its course.
Step 10: Finally get online, and discover you've won!
Step 11: Ring up seller, and arrange to pick it up. Feel slightly apologetic, because the 'Buy Now' price was about $80.
Step 12: Pick up a beautiful little wheel, compact and light, and working really smoothly.
Step 13: Pick up Zcc from work, and confess to buying spinning wheel accidentally.
Step 2: Stumble into the 'Craft -> Spinning' section.
Step 3: See a lovely little up-right with a starting price of $50. (A similar one is over $500 new!)
Step 4: Think 'It'll go for over $100, but it can't hurt to put a bid in'.
Step 5: Bid $50, and resolve not to go any higher, because there's precious little room in our home. But if it goes for $50, it would be a shame not to own it.
Step 6: Forget about it.
Step 7: See that, 24 hours out from the close of the auction, you're still 'leading'.
Step 8: Gulp - where are we going to put it? Sorry - where am I going to put it? (Zcc is absolved of all involvement in this process.)
Step 9: Be unable to check the net for about 12 hours after the auction has run its course.
Step 10: Finally get online, and discover you've won!
Step 11: Ring up seller, and arrange to pick it up. Feel slightly apologetic, because the 'Buy Now' price was about $80.
Step 12: Pick up a beautiful little wheel, compact and light, and working really smoothly.
Step 13: Pick up Zcc from work, and confess to buying spinning wheel accidentally.