What's the dumbest thing you've ever bought on eBay?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

I'm currently waiting on an auction for one of my favorite childhood toys to end (40 more minutes!). I'm sure my husband will fail to see the need for this item, but I loved it as a child and want to have it again.

Your stories?

[KittyWampus]

1. That Isn't Dumb At All. And I Hope You Win It. I Just Bought Some Perfume

unsniffed.... STUPID! Doesn't work with my skin chemistry. Can't stand it... but it's no longer being made so I'll just relist it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. It wasn't the old Lost in Space Robot, was it?

"Danger Will Robinson!"

This was my most desired toy as a kid for a while, I've never even seen one.

A friend of mine bought an old car, a fixer upper Jaguar project, on eBay.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

3. Nope, it's a Snoopy item

Have you looked on eBay for your robot?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. No, I'm afraid I'd find it, and have to buy it, LOL.

Sometimes the longing is better.

[bigwillq]

10. I love Snoopy!

I still sleep with him every night. My Snoppy is 21 years old. At least he could drink now! :)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. I wish I had my stuffed Snoopy with aviator goggles

I slept with him, too. Why did my parents have to throw ALL of my things out???

[bigwillq]

12. Aww. That sucks.

Well my original stuffed snoopy was thrown out with the hospital sheets. I had my tonsils out when I was 5 and he was in my bed and when I went for a stroll around the hospital I had come back and the bed was made.
I guess Snoopy got hidden in the sheets and when they changed the bed, he was tossed!:cry:

We made the staff search for him but with no luck. The next week, my parents bought me my current Snoopy.

[Fenris]

5. A *TOBACCO* pipe

I collect tobacco pipes, and I came across this really interesting looking pipe one day. It said in the decription that it was a tobacco pipe, and I loved the shape and bought it.

Let's just say it wasn't a tobacco pipe.

[nono]

6. Electric Trains

from the 40's and 50's, my wife buys dolls.

[no name no slogan]

7. I've paid way too much for hard to find CDs

I paid $75 for a CD by a guy named John Stewart, a California 70s soft-rocker who is best known for penning "I'm A Believer".

I even got in a bidding war, and probably paid too much for it, but I DID win it! :D

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. My husband is notorious for not reading the fine print on eBay

Once he bid several hundred dollars on a white ceramic Rado watch for himself which turned out to be a woman's watch, which he didn't know until I looked at it and read the fine print. We were able to e-mail the seller and convince her to let him back out of the deal (I'm not that into watches or I would have made him buy it for me).

[Skittles]

9. I've never bought anything on ebay

and I doubt I ever will

[soothsayer]

13. One of my first purchases---2 pennies that "slipped past the careful

eye of a treasury inspector"---printed slightly off center on one side. The guy stated that the value was 2 cents, but I got into a middle of the night bidding war and ended up paying $199 for them! Guy felt so bad for me he threw in some other misprinted coins. I don't even know where the damn things are anymore. Soooo stupid! If I had looked down the page I would have noticed he was also selling ooodles more of them I could have gotten for much, much less.