Well
that was fun!
Yesterday early morning, while idly checking ebay, I found three
Trigun yaoi raw
doujinshi being offered, at ridiculously small prices (52p. Plus £3.35 p&p...) and with what look to me like TN covers. (I
love TN's work.) So I put them on watch, and at midnight last night got the email saying there was just five and half hours left to bid.
Now, I'd actually forgotten about them in yesterday's busyness, but I'd had a nap in the afternoon so staying up until 5.30am wasn't a problem. Bidding was very slow at that point - one bid for one of them, 2 for another and 5 for the one I was particularly interested in, which has a full colour glossy fold out mini-poster of bondage!Legato (mmmm Legato...)
Decided to wait til the last minute (my usual strategy. It's failed me once, but generally works) so got stuck into a long HP fic I've had saved on the hard-drive for... um... must be a couple of years at least, while I waited for the time to pass.
Come 5.17 am I took another look. Oh, High Drama! The bloody server kept logging me out, then telling me I didn't have cookies enabled... [snarl] When I finally managed to login there were only seven minutes left...
Well, the bid for
Red Typhoon went through with no problems (end cost £1.04), but the other two weren't so easy: one of the other bidders had obviously put in a maximum bid, which meant I had to keep increasing mine incrementally until I beat it. And the clock kept ticking...
Did it though - got
Love and Peace, the one I really wanted (for £6.56, pretty good!) Not the third -
Red and Black - unfortunately: I simply ran out of time. But I'm not complaining!
Because this morning... um, afternoon, when I finally surfaced, I found an ebay 'second chance' email offering
Red and Black on [Buy Now] at my final bid price of £2.52 - I guess the seller had two copies. [happy grin] So I now have all three of them coming over from Japan. Heh, the postage is more expensive than the
doujinshi!
I have solemnly promised Ken I will not look at ebay for a month...
Labels: ebay, manga, Trigun, YAY
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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