I got up at 3am to see the end of an auction, couldn’t help myself, so I bid and won!!
Is this a sickness or normal for a train fan? Should I give my password to Jan so she can change it so I can’t bid!![:D][:D]
This is what I won, I sniped so I hope I didn’t out bid anyone![B)][B)]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5991560090&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1
Ken.
Ken,
I’m with you brother… I got the sickness awhile back too… in the end, sad to say, I did have to let the OL take it back away from me it was just too tempting…
[;)]
This is your third purchase since you opened the account on March 26th (my daughter’s B-Day) of this year? I hardly think that qualifies as an “addiction”. Give it a few more months. It’ll get worse![:D]
Jeff
fidgits and sweats worse still guys… I just found out that back issues of MR are often put up for sale on Ebay too… some really old ones at that twitch
Check the brakes before you run it, I understand they had a problem with them!
Will
I admit that I have an ebay addiction problem. Here’s how I got over it:
I realized that I already had enough junk. [Thanks in part to eBay]
I focused on building my layout rather than collecting train stuff [junk]. Thus, there is less money to spend on ebay, and less time to shop.
I still bid on things I’d like to acquire – old years of MR, Conrail ZTS books – and I have put the things that I like to search for on my “favorite searches” list. I try not to stray from my favorite searches, or to browse too much.
Ebay is a fascinating market, and it is addictive. I have better things to do with my time and money. Do you? Good luck.
Regards
Peter
Why would you stop buying on ebay? In 95% of the listings are cheaper than a hobby shop.
I am Daniel Archer
and i am an ebayaholic
eBayeBayeBayeBayeBayeBayeBay I guess I’m hooked on it.[:D] I buy alot from eBay. One way to stop this addiction is to:
1:un-plug your computer
2:make it so that your computer will block you from it
3:stop etting money so that you can’t afford anything
All these ways are a little dangerous. Side affects may include frustration, twitching of the eye because you can’t stand to not have eBay and the belief that everything tastes like chicken.[:)]
Amen brother!!
i look for a lot of D&H stuff on ebay because my hobby shops dont carry alot of that road name
I bid on five or six items a month and won one to three a month for about a year. Then one day I just quit. I haven’t bid on anything in over two years now.
“How do I stop buying things on e-bay?”
(Lewd and lascivious tone) Heee, heee, heeeeeeeeeeee!
You caaaaaaaaan’t. [}:)]
Thanks for the suggestions!? I will slow down, we have to concentrate on the house before anything else.
mayby one more look[;)][X-)][:-,][swg][:-^]
Ken.
Have your ISP to block the eBay URL?
I was hoping you would know how. Get the significant other to change your password, set up a “Parental Block” for that website or check your bank balance for the last six months if that doesn’t work nothing will. Since I have hit ebay my locomotive fleet/Brass addiction has gone exponential (the unofficial " abused brass rescue society").
Honest, guys, it just takes a little thing called Self Control. That’s what I use. I just keep telling myself, “I don’t need this, forget it” when I get on line, and I keep telling myself “I don’t need this, forget it” until the FEDEX truck pulls up to the house.
I mean, it’s simple, right? Sheesh, what’s the problem?
Tom [:P][:P][:P]
Log onto Ebay, do a search for Smith & Wesson 44 Magnum at a reasonable price. Bid on it and win it. Send the seller his payment and wait on the postman to come through…
Load the Magnum and put your computer in a safe place down range. Take aim and unload ALL six shots into said computer. That should do it! …Oh wait…That’s right…You can’t buy guns on E-Bay…See!!! They thought of everything!!! Your screwed!!![:D][:D][:D]
Why stop. Just use some better self control. I usually get items that my LHS doesn’t have, and won’t have due to discontinuation by the manufactures. The last two thing that I got were a Proto 2000 Lehigh Valley GP38-2 and all the 1964 issues of Model Railrader.
It’s easy enough to break the habit. Just delete eBay from your “favorites” list and then ignore it while you put your time to more productive use.
I was a member of eBay in the early years of the site, and did some buying and selling there. But then it “evolved” into something that, popular as it may be, is fraught with hassles for both buyers and sellers. I gave up on it and have never looked back. I don’t even check that site anymore to see what’s being offered.
I prefer to buy my train items new, and from a dealer I can get back to if I have any problems. I also get the items I buy a whole lot faster by going through an established dealer instead of playing the eBay game. That method also requires a whole lot less time in front of a computer monitor.
If you want to give it up, all it takes is a bit of willpower (something a great many people in this hobby seem to lackwhen it comes to spending money).
And I love how people will write that they “won” something on eBay. They didn’t “win” anything at all. They are paying for something that may or may not be worth what it cost them. They may have beat out some other buyer, but they certainly didn’t “win” anything.
And, yes, sacrificing sleep to visit an on-line auction site to bid on a toy or model train is most definitely a sickness. No doubt about that!