November 4, 2010

Area Man Apparently About To Trade Bugaboo For A Dinner [Sitter Not Included]

I'm headed to the airport, long weekend in Amsterdam. The eBay auction for our awesome Bugaboo Cameleon ends in a couple of hours, and right now, it looks like I'll clear enough to take the Mrs. to a nice little restaurant.

One with McRib AND free Wi-Fi.

Seriously, people, $81?

I know the seat safety handle/bar has a couple of small tears along the bottom edge, but you can't see them from anywhere except the kid's boots! And I found the mosquito net! And the iPhone holder! And the instructional DVD is Mint. In. Box.

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If you get to the close of the auction and no one bids an amount you want for it, just have a friend or your wife bid an outrageous amount and that way you can keep it and try to sell it again.

Snipers always win.

Happy? Nearly $250 for a 5 year old stroller. Doesn't sound too bad to me.

Now you can supersize that dinner.

Nice, but really, shagpadauction? Who are you, Austin Powers?

I don't think I'd rush to buy a used stroller from anyone with the word "shag" in their name...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAhKf_Ro4ZU&feature=related

Seriously, people, it's a used stroller, not an investment. You can see $900 used Bugaboos NOT selling on eBay for $400 every day.

Best to buy 'em because you love 'em, period. Any other return is bonus.

Five years after the Cameleon hit our shores? There are a lot of other, equally well (or better) designed options around, a bunch of them cheaper new. Times change, and so does "cool". Not to mention national economies.

That was a rather thinly veiled attempt to pad your auction.
However it seemed to work, and $250 for a stroller that age, Bugaboo or not, is nothing to sneeze at.

haha, yes, well, it's early adopter syndrome, I guess. the ebay user id is left over from a project I did in 1997. whoops, it looks like shagpad.com isn't loading up properly. I will talk to my archivist about it.

thinly veiled? I thought it was overt and explicit. The one time a year I sell something on ebay, I will certainly promote my own auctions.

And yes, the price was just fine, which freed me up to complain about the exchange rate.

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