Ok.... a few years back my mum wanted to buy herself a dolls house so she could use it to play with my nieces. having never used ebay, she wanted my help, advice, and use of my ebay account ot do it. I was up fro this, I even volunteered to share the cost of the house when we won it.
So, we found the house on ebay, and I explained how the bidding would work, and how much it would cost. We put in an initial bid of about half what we were willing to pay in total, with a couple of weeks to go.
A week passes, and we're outbid. we up our bid to about 75% of what we're willing to pay... and this goes on, the bid slowly creeping up over the week, untill its literally at the amount we posted. I keep explaining to my mother we are going to be outbid, but she won;t have it - we are winning, and the amount we've bid is just fine... and if we increase the bid, it just means its going to be increasing the amount we have to pay. The night before the auction ends, its exactly the same situation, and no matter how much I plead and explain this, my mother will not listen. I come to the conclusion I'll just have to watch the auction in the morning, and catch it then if we're outbid.
So I get up, have breakfast, turn on the computer and I'm immediately called downstairs. We were in the middle of the landlord renovating our kitchen at the time, so a lot of stuff had been moved into the dining room, and my mum had decided we had to tidy it up RIGHT THIS INSTANT and was not prepared to listen to excuses or explanations, or how a lot of the stuff we're tidying away is being put into places the plumber will be moving them out of the very next day.
by the time she's finally happy, the auction has been over for an hour, and when I get on I am depressed but unsurprised to find we've been outbid to the tune of £1.
I tell mum what has happened. Now, maybe I should have said 'I told you so' or 'I did say', but I didn;t want to be a jerk. When I explain its too late to go back and rebid, as the auction is over, and we've lost, she stomps off, angry.
About half an hour later, my aunt calls. now, my room with the computer is at the top of the stairs, and I generally keep it open, so While I wasn;t listening in, I could very easilly hear what my mum was saying. And the first thing out of her?
'I'm really upset really. We lost this beautiful dolls house on ebay, because SHE was too slow checking it.'
And that was it. Every time she would talk to anyone about losing the house on ebay, it was my fault for being too slow.
and aw I cant even feed the trolls a little bit, just a bit? Just kidding haha.
