i've always known about ebay, since it first started up and people were going crazy over it, but I never trusted people enough to use it. Same with paypal, I had heard about it but I had no idea how it was supposed to work so I never used it. Eventually I made a paypal account because I saw an ebay auction that I really wanted, but I still didn't have the guts to bid on it because I didn't know how paypal worked and I still didn't trust people. When I bought my AKON pass I was forced to use paypal to pay, so I then understood how it works... I was thinking I had to transfer money from my bank account to my paypal account, but it turns out it just withdraws whatever I need automatically.
So, I decided to give bidding on ebay a try. I had done the "buy it now" stuff before but that's kind of just like buying off of gamestop.com or something. The actual bidding is fun and it reminds me of the auction house in WoW. Some people are sneaky fuckers and like to steal auctions right before the bidding time runs out, like in the last 30 seconds. Sometimes you're lucky and nobody notices the auction you're winning or nobody knows how awesome the game you're bidding on is.
Here are the games I've gotten so far in the past couple days:
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - 13 bucks
Megaman Zero 3 - 13 bucks
Advance Wars - 9 bucks
Final Fight One - 11 bucks
I also bought some filled subway sub club cards, but they're actually for my sister. It's awesome that you can buy already filled up cards for way cheaper than it would cost to fill them up. If you eat subway a lot, that's a lot of saved money. Just buy a small drink and give them one of those cards, and you get a free 6 inch sub. That's just awesome.
Posted by at May 16, 2005 06:27 PMeBay is pretty awesome. I won that Aria of Sorrow too, cheep cheep!
Posted by: Nick at May 16, 2005 07:26 PMyeah, I've gotten a few things on ebay too. It can be nice at times. You can get ripped off too, but you just have to be careful when looking over the items.
Yaya for new old games. Come by teh apartment sometime Joe!
Posted by: JP at May 17, 2005 02:19 PM