7 Mar
2012
7 Mar
'12
3:36 p.m.
I mean, if you got an AS/400 for $0.99, it's kind
of
hard to exaggerate unless you said you got it for a penny,
and what difference does that make? :-)
I suppose I am thinking "success" on a different way. Sure, anyone
that has been hanging around Ebay long enough has managed to get a
super deal, like an AS/400 for a buck, but those occurrences are
pretty much luck and/or timing. What I am thinking about is winning an
Ebay auction - maybe for a buck, maybe for something over market
value, it does not matter - and getting something extra from the
auction, or really great service. For example, once I won a World War
2 era radar piece for a fair price, and to my surprise, packed along
with it was new-in-box ARC-5 receiver (a nice, quite desirable unit
from that era). The seller packed it along as a bonus.
No funny
business, no shipping errors - just a bonus.
That is the kind of success that almost ever gets reported, and never
gets exaggerated.
But, as usual, in our brains the bad things in this world tend to
crowd out the good things.
--
Will