Have you ever bid on something on Ebay
that you don't need, isn't worth much, and won't bring you much happiness - but you have to have it, no matter what?

Theres this thing I'm bidding on that is a total waste of money, but I must have it no matter what as they're very rare. It isn't even in this fecking country.
( Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:51, archived)

Nope.
I prefer saving money rather than spending it.
( Sygiinu, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:53, archived)

No. I'm sensible.

( Comma, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:53, archived)

Yup
Many things
The last thing I got that I didn't need was a Casio VL Tone Keyboard and more recently Homer Simpson dressed as Radioactive Man
( Hankster, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:54, archived)

Ooh
*Nostalgies*
( Hankster, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:06, archived)

ooh
i like that
( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:16, archived)

What is it?
but no, I haven't.
( magnum, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:54, archived)

A memory card
for a mid-eighties synthesizer. I had one years ago at school, they're incredibly rare.
( Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:55, archived)

*outbids*

( Damion International - now taking orders., Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:56, archived)

petr cech?

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:54, archived)

i was going to see the spice girls in china
they've cancelled :(
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:03, archived)

China is cancelled?
Where will all the Chinese people go?
( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:04, archived)

Cockle picking?

( Hankster, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:04, archived)

yes!

( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:06, archived)

I've never bought anything off ebay
but I have sold some stuff. I'm still gutted that I had to sell my camera lens on there last week. ;(
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:55, archived)

It cost me £1100
and I let it go for £650 because I needed the cash :(
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:58, archived)

holy shit that's an expensive lens
what was so special about it.. leica?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:02, archived)

A Canon L lens?

( magnum, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:03, archived)

yes
and when the guy came to collect it he was moaning and everything and wanting me to take pics at 1/80sec. I felt like telling him to piss off
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:09, archived)

You should have smashed it in his face.

( magnum, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:11, archived)

he was a bit of an arse
it was like he was trying to find fault with it and it's a bloody good lens. I've had pics in books and magazine covers and stuff with it. It was bloody humiliating to be honest selling it. It was my pride and joy. Now it feels like my right arms been cut off. I can't take decent pics anymore :(
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:14, archived)

let me guess
70-200/2.8 USM?
( custard, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:19, archived)

no
100-400
( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:20, archived)

I feel for you having to sell a much prided possesion.

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:36, archived)

heh
Wait until you're spending £6000 on lenses :)
( Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:05, archived)

I've done that shit loads of times
I bought a broken PS2, the repair part, the leads, the memory cards, hard drive unit, games, and pads, all in seperate auctions, and I don't even have a TV.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:56, archived)

I bought a PS2 off ebay today
I have a telly though
( Hankster, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:58, archived)

Seems fairly essential to me
Unless you've got a pretty good imagination
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:00, archived)

you can run them off a monitor
i think i have an adaptor somewhere
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:05, archived)

can't you plug it into your tft?

(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:00, archived)

this screen only has a VGA input

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:01, archived)

can you not get a convertor?
I'm sure you can
( Hankster, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:03, archived)

for the same price as the PS2, yeah

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:09, archived)

yes
cars.. i live in london.. waste of bloody time & money
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 2 Feb 2008, 21:58, archived)

yeah, I've bought shedloads on there
and invariably flogged them on for profit, hur hur hur
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:00, archived)

well one i had to scrap
which cost me a hefty 100 quids
the other was sold on for profit and to a lovely home.. which is nice
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:05, archived)

No, never done that.
Bid on stuff I wanted and didn't win.

What were you after.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:02, archived)

yep
A Jaguar XJ220 pencil tin for £3
( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:03, archived)

Heheh
best one
( Hankster, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:04, archived)

not quite ebay
but i do have a stack of old computers solely because they were once technically brilliant
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:04, archived)

i really ought to sell the riscpc in fact
they're still worth a mint
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:06, archived)

you bastards
now i'm browsing the vintage computing section on ebay. this kind of thing never has a happy ending
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:11, archived)

I visited a friend recently who produced one of these:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Macintosh

His kids were in awe.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:11, archived)

i have an SE30
i wrote my dissertation on it, in fact (it didn't have internet capability, so i wouldn't get distracted). sadly, it seems to have packed up recently
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:17, archived)

Not wanting to get into a pissing war,
but the converstion when it was produced was that it was his treat to himself after he graduated and got his first job. He typed all his college papers on a typewriter. The kids didn't really get it.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:20, archived)

sorry, i didn't mean to come across as one-uppish
i was just adding my tale to yours
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:23, archived)

You didn't.
I didn't want to.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:27, archived)

good-oh

( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:38, archived)

I did a web design for the guys who currently have the risc license
/geek claim to fame.
( magnum, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:15, archived)

They actually demo'ed one of the computers to me
Didn't really make much sense to me though our graphic designer at the time thought it was good.
( magnum, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:17, archived)

ooo
iyonix (sp?) or someone else?
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:19, archived)

Yup
They took most of the "design" (I'm no designer, why I was given the task to design it I don't know)
( magnum, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:21, archived)

they should make an eee pc clone
an arm low-voltage processor and risc os in a tiny laptop would rock
( spacefish bong!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:33, archived)

No
But I have just bought some Body Shop Hemp body butter from ebay for a lot less than it costs in the shop. Sealed and everything.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:08, archived)

i like the Body Shop Hemp hand cream
1 tube seems to last bloody ages
( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:16, archived)

And it's amazing stuff!

( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:17, archived)

Taaalkk booard
its where people talk
about stuff.
talk booard!
There is a guy who is called sir sand goblin and he is on iiit.
And i shall mention Wildheart Baby, as i might get extra poIIIIiiNTS.
( Cae1, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 22:18, archived)