Wow – am I up with the new things or what – I finally made a purchase on Ebay.

I like auctions, as long as I can get a useful item at a good price. Hard to accomplish – seems like most people on auctions don’t know what the current value is or even what the new item price is for the items they’re bidding on.  I guess that’s for the best-keeps me from buying stuff.

I did desperately need a new (to me) seat for the scooter.  The seat the designers put on the bike when I bought it must have been designed by committee – Marquis de Sade as Head Engineer, with Jack Benny representing Accounting. I couldn’t sit on that seat for more than 80 miles before I wanted to get off and walk back home. I finally took the seat off and put some foam on the frame-it was more comfortable than the original seat!

Just when I was about to drop 5 bills on a new seat, I checked Ebay-lo and behold, there was a used seat on auction! Looked OK (from the pictures and description), so I signed up for an Ebay account and put in my first bid!

And immediately got outbid. So I entered a second bid. Hey-I’m now the high bidder! Cool. So, when do I get the seat? Oh, the auction doesn’t end for three days. Well, I can wait.

And wait. And wait. I’m still the high bidder. Oops, I got outbid. So I go to enter another bid, and what’s this? I can enter a Max Bid that will keep me as high bidder whenever someone else bids. I think this is pretty smart-I put in a Max Bid for $20 over my current bid.

Now the end of the auction is in a couple hours. I check the status-I’m still High Bidder, but there have been several attempts to place bids.  Three minutes to go. I get a thought to bump up my Max Bid, so I increase it by another $20. Not sure why I need to increase my bid, but I do. (I like to think the Good Lord watches over me, but I think He mostly does to keep me from doing something stupid.)

And the auction ends! At the very last minute, another bidder went $2 over my previous Max Bid-but I had increased my Max Bid, and won the auction! Hurray for me!

Now we wait for the seat to arrive.

Giving thanks for the Good and True,

Billy Acre