eBay, innit?

Isn't eBay great? Not only is it providing the spends for a long weekend by the sea next month after we sold off loads of tat but something else has just happened too.

I bought a hard-to-find book on eBay a while back, read it, enjoyed, passed it on my lovely man who read and then I got it back. What goes around comes arond so I stuck the book back on eBay and it's sold today for double the price I bought it at.

eBay. Great, innit?

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Steve said…
And that, my dear, is the touchstone of all good business.
8:34 PM
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