Ebay builds character

Just like to show you my you-beaut Eames reproduction chair- posh ay?  Goes to show the kind of quality folk we are, and true to form it was a berloody bargain!  My first and only foray into the land of E-bay, somehow I managed to carry off a pro-ish kind of move, beat off all the other REAL BIDDERS and picked it up for 126.50.  Oh yes, you read it right and that was in AUS dollars.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

And the vendor?  REALLY, REALLY PISSED!  Offered to buy it back for, hmm, now let me think- 126.50!!!  No,no,no,no.no I said.  And because he was a professional ebay seller (even though they are, hmm, illegal and just plain un-Australian), he didn't reneg.  Although, he did make it very difficult to a) pick it up, and b) get from Melbourne to sunny Queensland.  Still, with a little help from the in-laws and the always up for a hoot Trev and Liz, Eames is home!

But that's not the fairy story ended, in the true sense of triumph over adversity, Eames developed some character of its own, and, after a journey of 2000 kilometres, found its true calling of travel!  Yes, every morning is a journey of body and spirit, of new horizons and possibilites.  Thankyou ebay, thankyou.