Saturday, January 3, 2009

Winter Posts --- Ebay *Re-do

Over the winter break I went to the Ebay website and randomly looked over some of the categories that they had on the home page. To be honest it wasn't really all that appealing. So I typed in something that I knew for sure would interest me: Twilight (A book series) . There were a number of things that came up, I don't really remember all of the items, but a few of them did catch my eye. I saw a bracelet that I had liked alot. There was only one bid on it and the starting price was 17.99. It didn't seem like alot of money for this one item because it was something that I actually wanted.

My mother still protested buying the item so I used the watch this item option. I checked the item two days later and the price had gone up to 19.99 and now had two bidders. A 2 dollar increase didn't really seem like alot but it made me think about how people willingly spend money for things they probably wont need or use. I last checked it on the 2nd and the price had rose 3 cents. It appeared that this bidding game would go on forever because when you want something you can be relentless until you get it.

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