eBay-itus

Dont know about you, but until recently, I've kept my distance from the
said site, thinking it would be surrounded with sketchy guys wanting
the precious pennies in my bank account. During a few bored hours,
though, I did a search for a few things that I thought my be quite
awsome to have. Namly, a KVM Switch has been on my whishlist for quite
some time now. So, I tapped it in, 'KVM Switch'. To my sheer amazment,
the first result was a Compaq 8 port kvm, which was the bee's knees,
for ?13.

Awsome. Lets do this stuff and break a leg, I bid, and bid, and later
that day, I win my first item, this 8port KVM Switch for ?50. Google'd
for it later that night, and found it had a retail value of ?990 +, let
me tell you, my diaper budget has excceded' orph's this month. I've sat
night after night, shat'ing myself over these crazy prices, buying
groovey stuff.

Tryied selling some stuff at a total listing value of ~?4, but nothing sold.

Anyway, yestorday, I got my pay packet for my part time job at a local supermarket. Total of ?74. Awsome stuff. Lets spend.

I'm posting this now, after just spending ?72.30 on misculanious
rubbish on ebay. Someone please tell me they've had this experience,
It's quite disconcerting, I actually hope I dont win all this damned
stuff - It's quite an addiction at the time of bidding... :smile:

I've found I very rarely come to a point in my life where I have everything I want. Atm I'm at a nasty point where all my expensive stuff needs replacing- PC slowly dying, stereo has faulty everything, drumkit needs tuning by a professional dude, stuff like that...

Ebay tends to have alot of stuff which I want, but my advice is only go there for something you know you'll never find on the hi street. If you find stuff you can get elsewhere you'll only want it mainly because its so much cheaper and you'll feel that if you don't buy it there and then you'll miss your chance.

I bought 3 Dreamcast controllers and two memory cards off eBay previously. Worked pretty much as-is.

i was addicted. I've been eBay-free for one month (not counting selling stuff) but b4 that i was buying s**t like military gas cans and chain maille. SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!

Chain maille, now that's original :biggrin:

Myrk- you need to tune drumkits? I thought you just bash them createing noise polution... :biggrin:

i was addicted. I've been eBay-free for one month (not counting selling stuff) but b4 that i was buying s**t like military gas cans and chain maille. SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!

Meh, military shtuff is soo much cheaper at teh surplus store ;/

Nah, the heads get tightened and loosened. I personally can't put them in tune very well, but I can do it a bit. Also if you have a huge drum kit like mine (classic Heavy metal with 2 bass drums) then it's almost impossible to get 2 bass drums sounding identical without being a pro tuner.

they sell little tuners for guitars and stuff. get one for a bass guitar and just match both to the same pitch. (seen it done, worked)

You reckon? I've tried my guitar and bass tuner on my drums and I get nothing, doesn't have enough sustain to trigger the tuner :-/

you got batting in your drums? u may have to have someone do a drumroll on it with harder mallets.

I need to try and get my old double bass pedal back... loaned it to a kid in Lincoln, then I forgot about it and moved and it's still kinda there. :smile: Eventually I'll probably try to sell that.

I've gotten some awesome posters on eBay that I'd not be able to find normally... couple Halo 2 posters, Viewtiful Joe, and an incredible South Korean version of the Homeworld 2 poster (I'll have to take a pic of this if I can't find it online). Even found the one and only Beyond Good and Evil promo poster ever put up there! :smile: Also the quake 2 figures mentioned in a previous thread.... some starcraft figures, alice figure set, that sort of thing. Lots of decorations for my cube at work.

Generally I just get that sort of thing, but I have gotten a couple games from eBay as well. I got a DreamCast, couple memory cards, and extra controller to go with Soul Calibur and, since I hate used games, had to settle for eBay to get a new copy of Ikaruga.

Best thing I got was a japanese plush pikmin doll, the big purple bud variety. Gave that to Maggie (my wife) for Christmas :biggrin:

I've been good about staying away from there, though. Got expensive! :smile:

Myrk- learn to tune yourself, you goon! :razz: Easier to get the sound you want that way, which is what's most important :smile:

KFS, your avatar is hott... lol

... and from such a good and under-rated game.

It's pretty hard tuning a 8 piece beast kit...

Double post.

My advice to anyone UK based is to NEVER EVER send postal cheques as payment, especially to 0 rated users. Credit cards all the way :razz:

Postal Orders and cheques are both just as secure as debit cards you know (not BarclayCard though, they have thier own police :-X). They can easily be tracked and the culprit caught :razz:

KFS - You work in cubicles? I had a mental image of a hippie and
harmonious mapping room, with laptops and sofa beds - really. That
sucks.

silly, you can't MAP with those dumb touchpads on laptops... :biggrin:

myrk, dice kit, like the added monkeys, my drum kits well smaller than that, but i got like 6 cymbols.

Ive only ever used Ebay once and that was to sell my rc car, when i get my paypal account verified i will start buying on it.

I've never seen the point in loads of cymbals, I rarely hear a huge variation at work apart from the crash, ride, splash, hi hat and china. Apart from that I don't see the point in getting more.

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There the ones i got i just got anouther crash so i dont have to move as far from my floortom and ride to get to it especially on fast songs.

I've never seen the point in loads of cymbals, I rarely hear a huge variation at work apart from the crash, ride, splash, hi hat and china. Apart from that I don't see the point in getting more.

Bah. There's a huge range of tones and sounds available, even within the same generic categories you just named. :smile: 16" crash is totally different than an 18", 20" crash ride is completely different than a 20" ping ride, etc. etc. Greatest disservice you can do is consider it just a clangy piece of metal. :smile: