365 Days of Ebay

365daysofebay @ 2005-08-18T13:36:00

2005-08-18T18:45:42Z

Okay, I know I said two weeks, but obviously it's been a little longer than that. Some of you are pissed that I haven't mailed your items yet. Here's what's been going on that's caused all the hold-up, if you care. Firstly, I coach a swim team in the summer (which you know if you've been following me for the whole of this project. You creepy stalker.), and we had our weekend spanning state meet. This took up absolutely all of my time, not only for that weekend, but also for the preceding week.

Then, I got let go by the job that I used the internet on to post my auctions. I don't have the internet at home, so it's up to the kindness of very patient friends who don't mind me listing ebay auctions for hours so that I can catch up.

Finally, immediately after state meet, I left on "vacation" to Ohio to visit my grandpa. I meant to bring along the final auctions I had yet to send, but I forgot, and kicked myself the entire trip. I got a few nasty e-mails and a paypal dispute, which I deserved, because it's lame to take people's seventy-seven cents and not deliver. I even betrayed the most beloved kevinpittsburgh, owner of more Anne art than any person, even Anne, should own.

The kicker was when we had to stay an extra week in Ohio, because of my grandpa's failing health. We stuck around to find out what was going on and to help out my step-grandma take care of him. (Don't worry, everything's okay: Something was wrong with his thyroid, which is treatable, so we're happy.)

Point of the story? 365 Days of Ebay got pushed to the side. WAY to the side. So far to the side that I even considered not starting back up again.

And that's when I got the e-mails from those who actually MISSED this stupid project. Those that started their days reading the latest auction that I felt compelled to list. Someone even told me that I should sell items that people actually WANT to buy. But that would make this whole thing substantially less hilarious.

Long story short, yes, I'll bring it back, yes, all the missed auctions will be made up, and yes, we will all live happily ever after. Keep your eyes open, the comeback will begin...SOON!!!!*

*Bwahahahaha.

365daysofebay @ 2005-07-08T16:13:00

2005-07-08T21:16:58Z

You may have noticed a lack of listings from me. That is because I have so many things to keep track of right now that ebay gets pushed to the back. So, I am declaring an official two week break. When I come back from my break, I will post auctions for all the days I missed. I really hate to do this, but I have to take a break. See you guys in two weeks! Don't give up on me!

May Update!!!!!

2005-06-16T22:01:26Z

I'm feeling lazy right now, so I'm just gonna post the stat table and the rest of the goodies will be edited in later. May seems to be the month where I went, "Screw you, 365 Days of Ebay, I've got a life TOO you know."

I feel really bad about it because I let it slide a lot. Life kind of took hold of me and shook me around, what with swim team, lessons, and very little free time anymore. BUT I SHAN'T GIVE UP, VALIANT SOLDIERS. I SHALL KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON FOR THE NINE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FRIENDED ME SINCE THIS PROJECT BEGAN.

If you've been watching the auctions recently, you may have noticed that I mention "365 Days of Ebay" t-shirts are coming soon. How soon depends on how soon they are designed! I have an idea, but I am not an artist, and so things are going slower than I would have hoped.

AND NOW, A NEW FEATURE!!!! How much have I been making off this stupid endeavor? This month, I got my first "This is an excellent piece of performance art" comment and it blew my mind. Because in my opinion? It's an excellent piece of stupid. So, for curiosity's sake, I've figured out how much I've made off the project each month, minus fees and postage.

HERE WE GO:

January: $26.76, 86 cents a day. An excellent start. People were mental for stickers this month, and half the Anne art proceeds went to Anne.
February: $5.56, 20 cents a day. My friends stopped bidding on everything.
March: $8.95, 29 cents a day. An Anne art month, hence the spike in profits!
April: $17.49, 58 cents a day. The Subway skull cap occured this month, and I got to keep everything from that! WHO NEEDS YOU, ANNE!!!
May: $2.72, 9 cents a day. I temporarily abandoned the project, and everyone temporarily abandoned me. Justifiably so, I might add.

INTENSE GRAND TOTAL: $61.48, 41 cents a day!!! I'M ROLLING IN IT, Y'ALL.

Date	Item	Starting Bid	Ending Bid	Number of Bids	Pulled?	Winner
May 1st	Knitted swatch I made, totally amazing, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 2nd	DVD insert, Your Favorite TV!, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 3rd	My little sister's basketball card, mispelled name,PULE	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 4th	Picture of me and Buffy's ADAM BUSCH (aka Warren) PULE!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	cjmck1
May 5th	German soccer player stickers, PULE!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	themrash
May 6th	A single Shades of Jade tea pod, PULE!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.45	2	no	synthjesso
May 7th	My mom's favorite newspaper comic, PULE!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.45	2	no	ehbagh
May 8th	Two small packs of Twang Pickle Salt, PULE!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.55	3	no	synthjesso
May 9th	Shoe magnet. A magnet in the shape of a shoe. PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	feel_the_art
May 10th	A bag of mystery seeds, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.50	2	no	usolditonline
May 11th	Hooters buffalo wing magnet, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	houseboatonthestyx
May 12th	Smile, Jesus Loves You! Bracelet, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 13th	Amazing drawing by Mr. Andrew Foster, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	dpzoot
May 14th	Card that LOOKS LIKE an iPod, but is not one, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$5.06	10	no	spaceboy-76
May 15th	Queen Victoria candy wrapper, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 16th	First Day of Issue Chinese Zodiac stamp, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 17th	Promo Harry Potter card, Swelling Solution, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	ks_skydiver72
May 18th	Letter from boss telling me no ebaying at work, PULE!!!	$0.40	$0.45	2	no	dpzoot
May 19th	Wells Fargo ATM deposit envelope, PULE!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 20th	Map of Six Flags Over Texas, PULE!!!	$0.40	$3.26	3	no	tcfly-in-texas
May 21st	My Resume, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 22nd	Book promotion bookmark thing, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 23rd	Business card from my job, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	kayglay
May 24th	Some random card thing, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 25th	Fax Post-It Notes from work, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 26th	Verizon SuperPages Savings Card, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	2	no	bedml
May 27th	Silica gel from ANOTHER LAND, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 28th	Strange and unique stickers, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
May 29th	Bizarre cow picture, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	2?	no	bedml
May 30th	A bandaid, incredible, not to be believed, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
May 31st	EMPTY Buffy trading card package, season six, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso

April Update!!

2005-05-11T03:50:23Z

Well, April is over. I can't think of anything particularly exciting to say about April. Actually, I can! It seems that a lot of stuff sold for a lot higher this month! Normally, if stuff sells at all, it'll go for forty cents. But this month, I had a lot of stuff break the $1 mark, an EXCITING achievement for a "365 Days of Ebay" item!

It's kind of sad, really. My mom, an avid supporter of "365 Days of Ebay", often asks how the project is going and what's currently being sold. Then, she'll ask me if anything's going for "a lot". At this point, I might say, "Well, the bloobity-blah is up to $1.05!" And she'll go, "WOW!" In all seriousness. Because for me, selling something for a dollar or more is a BIG DEAL.

Ok, enough of that, let's get onto the stats!

Date	Item	Starting Bid	Ending Bid	Number of Bids	Pulled?	Winner
April 1st	TCBY Gift Certificates, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$3.77	14	no	msdorisclothes
April 2nd	University Democrats flier, PULE!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 3rd	Krazy Kat on DVD promotional card, PULE!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	jdrorer
April 4th	Weird Al Close Personal Friends of Al order form, PULE!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	joygerhardt
April 5th	Angel (not the show) collage I made, PULE!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	dpzoot
April 6th	A small, stuffed Thing One (from Dr. Seuss), PULE!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	joygerhardt
April 7th	Altered religious pamphlet, PULE!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
April 8th	Humerous Garfield postcard, PULE!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	lunoluno20
April 9th	Reptile shaped little sponges, PULE!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	tqmagpie
April 10th	Subway Sandwich Artist Skull Cap, 100TH ITEM, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$10.78	13	no	margie512
April 11th	Individual packet of soy sauce, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
April 12th	Cover of 16 magazine, Hanson, 1998, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 13th	A blue feather like in Harvest Moon, get engaged, PULE	$0.40	$1.63	4	no	qmoonatnoon
April 14th	A yarn label, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 15th	Snail image pressed in wax, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
April 16th	Brave Combo business card, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 17th	Tag from synthetic hair, bright purple, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 18th	Pineapple chili lollipop, bizarre, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$2.50	6	no	qmoonatnoon
April 19th	Steak Way menu, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 20th	Parking Garage Ticket, PULE!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 21st	A rubber band, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 22nd	My sister's Camp Fire USA badge, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$1.26	4	no	kato8484
April 23rd	Black hand-crocheted beaded bun cover, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	firesidesprites
April 24th	A wrapped gift, what could it be? PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$1.62	10	no	itzallgoood
April 25th	Strange foreign giraffe plastic thing, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$2.25	9	no	vladent
April 26th	TOTALLY AMAZING FIRST PLACE RIBBON, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
April 27th	A paperclip, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
April 28th	A piece of paper with writing on it, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 29th	Program for the Bass Hall, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
April 30th	Greeting card drawn by an artist with aspergers, PULE!!	$0.40	$1.28	4	no	mybabydj1

My favorite item: I think this is obvious, but I'll say it anyway: The Subway Skull Cap. I can't remember if it was me or Anne who actually decided to make the cap, but whoever it was is BRILLIANT.
My least favorite item: I'm getting tired of selling stuff similar to stuff I've sold in the past. Usually, this stuff doesn't sell. It's obvious that no one wants it, and I don't want to sell it, and I only list it when I'm low on pictures.
Item with the highest ending bid: Subway Sandwich Artist Skull Cap, which sold for $10.78. Depressingly enough, this is STILL not as much as Anne art sells for.
Item with the most bids: TCBY Gift Certificates, which actually had just ONE MORE BID than the Subway Skull Cap.
Multiple time winners: There was a similar situation as last month, lots of new people so only a few multiple winners. Those that did win multiple times:

synthjesso - 5 times
joygerhardt - 2 times
qmoonatnoon - 2 times

And that's it! You guys should be proud!

People that won once but I don't know personally

msdorisclothes
jdrorer
dpzoot
lunoluno20
tqmagpie
margie512
kato8484
firesidesprites
itzallgoood
vladent
mybabydj1

Counting these and the multiple winners, that's 13 people I don't know. A vast change from January, when maybe two people I didn't know bid!!

Questions for TCBY Gift Certificates, PULE!!!!!!!
Q: Hi, Congrats on your 0.25th Anniversary.Assuming I am correct that "five amazing dollars worth" is five coupons, each having the value of one dollar, do they state anywhere if you can/cannot use more than one for a single purchase? In other words does it say "not to be combined with any other offer" or something like that? Thanks in advance. Axle Nuts A: Ah, what an excellent question, I had not even thought to look! Upon inspection, no, it doesn't have anything like that on it. I myself have used similar gift certificates more than one at a time at places like Wendy's, so I'd assume you can combine these as well. Also, thanks for the congratulations :)
Q: ...Are there even any TCBYs left in the area?
A: That's an excellent question, I have no idea. There probably are where the people who are bidding live!

Questions for Krazy Kat on DVD promotional card, PULE!!!!!!!!
Q: As to your observant flaw made by the P.R. people who designed this ad. Maybe they were afraid of someone taking it as a reference to the K.K.K.(By the way P.R. stands for public relations.)
A: Perhaps. I actually almost put something like that, then I remembered what the letter K in triplicate generally means, so I decided not to!

Questions for Subway Sandwich Artist Skull Cap, 100TH ITEM, PULE!!!!
Q: I dunno if it would fit on MY head, I have a huge cranium. But the real reason I'm writing is to point out the uncanny resemblance of the photo to that stoner guy Jay of Jay and Silent Bob! Spooky!
A: You know, I was going to go with my friend as Jay and Silent Bob (the female versions) for Halloween one year, but she chickened out. HOW LAME.
Q: can i save .37 if i just drive over and get it? :)
A: If that is how desperate you are to save money, I have no issues with that! I can also understand the rabid desire to have the skull cap in your posession as soon as possible, rather than wait for it to come in the mail.
Q: Could there possibly be a cooler item than this?!
A: Of course there isn't, which is why you shouldn't bid on any other items on ebay except this one.
Q: My day feels hollow and empty because I do not yet have a new 365 days of eBay item to enjoy.
A: My deepest apologies! I had expected to have access to a computer before today so I could schedule a new item, but alas, it was not meant to be. There will be a new item before the day is over, though.
Q: why did you quit your job at subway? it sounds like it would be a rad job, making hoagies and all.
A: True, it was quite the rad job. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, being a hogie makin' lackey. However, the bitter agony came when I was made manager, and had to delegate responsibility. Suddenly, making sandwiches got lost in a shuffle of paperwork, deadbeat employees, and money shortages, and I had to escape!

Questions for Cover of 16 magazine, Hanson, 1998, PULE!!!!
Q: Hey! Do you trade it for other hanson stuff, for other artitst/band stuff or for anything else?? ( have real pix, videos, tapes, magazines, posters, cd's, towels.... Thanx!!
A: Alas, no, I have more Hanson stuff than I will ever need. I've got an entire box (which is actually entirely decopauged with other pictures of Hanson) filled to the brim with everything that you've mentioned, except for the towels, and I can't imagine trying to dry myself with their faces! But I appreciate the offer!

Questions for A blue feather like in Harvest Moon, get engaged, PULE
Q: Hey, Jessica is cute, and you know how attractive married women are. If her marriage to Gus doesn't work out, can you let me know? Thanks!
A: Sure, but I mean, look at how happy they are together. I don't think anything's breaking those two up.
Q: Is there any chance this blue feather will help with Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for the PlayStation? I can get one for 1000g in the Supermarket, but your price is so much better... I'm just worried about compatibility issues (not with my sweetheart! with my console).
A: Hmm...I have never tried it! I suspect it might be tricky, as the feather I am selling is tangible, not pixelated. You could give it a shot, however, I would ask to remain free from guilt should your PlayStation break as a result.

Questions for A yarn label, PULE!!!!!
Q: Wow, I totally thought the auction was for "A yam label." My question: Why has poor Jessica been forced to wear the same shirt for a whole week? Or does she simply own multiple "geek" shirts?
A: Well, we actually took all the pictures at the same time, so it just LOOKS like the same shirt day after day, when really it's the same shirt on ONE day. We're TRICKY that way. You have to always be on your toes, keep a sharp eye, all that good stuff.

Questions for Brave Combo business card, PULE!!!!!
Q: I actually checked out brave combo's website... itzadilly of a site indeed. they are grammy award winning working musicians that are heavy duty polkamaniacs.... where'd you git the card. Are you a closet polkafan? where's arlington? close to new bronfels? there's a water park there i've heard of named schlitterbon! it's powered by natural river flowing water. It's on my list of place to go. hayve ya been thar? Hey, I got a name for yer wolksvagon," puff n' draggin the........... huh? happy trails, ITZALLGOOOOOOD!!! :)
A: I got their card at one of their shows, I've been to a couple but I'm not a hardcore fan. I do enjoy polka, though! Arlington is in Texas, and I'm not sure how far away Schlitterban is but I've heard of it and want to go someday. And, as much as I loved Puff the Magic Dragon as a kid, NOTHING will ever top Bilbo Baggins in my heart, nothin' personal :)
Q: who is that guy aaron? He's pretty cute!!
A: That is an excellent question. Who IS that guy Aaron? I have no idea. He wandered into my house one day and started posing with my stuff, so I just let him go to town. Saved me from having to take care of it myself. Who knows where he is now, probably wandering around in some local park.
Q: Isn't Denton the town name appearing on billboard in wedding scene in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
A: Man, I have NO IDEA!!! I've actually never seen that movie. But the person standing behind me says that it is. So, yes. Of course it is! How astute of you!

Questions for Tag from synthetic hair, bright purple, PULE!!!!!
Q: In alot of your ads it's titled: PULE! what thatmean? I love your idea & spirit. I'm reccomending all new ebayers to you for raising up the ratings + some of your stuff is way cool! & you all so totally rawk!!!!!!! thanks, ;)
A: Wow, thanks, I really appreciate it :) To answer your question, the "pule" thing comes from this website: http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/pule/pule_intro.html It's just a funny sounding word that's fun to put into auctions because more people with a bizarre sense of humor tend to search for "pule"!

Questions for Parking Garage Ticket, PULE!!!!!
Q: Starting on the third line of the first paragraph: "Only a license to park is granted hereby and no ballment is created." Oh, wait a second... does that say "ballment" or "bailment"? OK, maybe it is "bailment." I just looked it up, and it's a legal term. I was imagining maybe a ballment was like a big inflatable bubble that you drove your car into, and it would protect it in case another car bumped into it.
A: OH. Okay. Man, I totally didn't read the dang thing at all. I am highly impressed by your chutzpa (sp?) in doing so, and I am thoroughly pleased that it brought forth this incredible insight into the legal system! Also, kudos on that creative definition for an unknown term. I never would have concluded that.
Q: What exactly is a ballment?
A: ...Um...I have no idea...honestly, this question is totally confusing me. I have no clue to what you are referring, I apologize!

Questions for TOTALLY AMAZING FIRST PLACE RIBBON, PULE!!!!!!!!!!!
Q: Wow, you really are a winner! How many of these ribbons do you have? Is there a steriods scandal in your future?
A: Hahaha, alas, no steroids scandal. I have kerjillions of these ribbons because I am swim coach for a YMCA swim team, so I've got INSIDE CONNECTIONS.
Q: when is the commentary coming back? i just can't fully appreciate the items without the commentary...
A: Well, I asked Aaron to give me commentary but he didn't, he just sent pictures. I can do fake commentary again, if it will help enhance the experience!

Questions for Greeting card drawn by an artist with aspergers, PULE!!
Q: Hello, Can you please tell me the name of the artist who drew the card? Thanks, Jim
A: I am not ignoring you, I just keep forgetting to look. The card is at home and I am not, so I don't have it handy to check. If I remember to look before the auction ends, I'll let you know!

And my personal favorite part of the show, when people tell me how they heard of my project!

I got this link-heavy e-mail from a fellow lj user, evil_jim.

Hello,

As you may recall, I am the lucky winner of the Starbucks charm and the YMCA Swim patch. Since you asked how I heard about the "365 Days of eBay" I thought I'd give you the long version.
A year and a half ago a friend showed me his Live Journal which inspired me to create my own. Someone I knew in real life discovered it and we "friended" each other. Later, in one of her entries she linked to Dinosaur Comics and I was immediately hooked. I ploughed through their archive in a matter of days. Still hungry for more I started going through his links page where I found cockeyed.com, another wonderful and hilarious web site. Again, I ploughed through the archive reading everything I could find. A few weeks later I found myself searching for something, anything new when I discovered an item that I must have missed; the origin of the word "pule" on eBay. (Ah, now we're getting somewhere.) Naturally, the next thing I did after reading was search eBay for "pule". (42 items tonite. Hmmm.) There were some interesting items but the one that caught my eye was an empty card stock envelope for some gum! I knew weird people post some crazy things on eBay and even weirder people buy them but this was odder than most. I found the link to "365 days of eBay" from there and have been following along since.
As to my purchases, I bid on the YMCA patch because I have a denim jacket covered with patches and thought this one would fit right in. Each patch has a special significance to me and I liked your project enough to want to include it. Now I'll have an interesting story to tell and web page to show off for the next year. I bid on the Starbucks charm because, well. . . . it looked neat and there was nothing else that week I really wanted.
I've never sold anything on eBay before so I can't tell if you're making any profit all this, but I commend you for your efforts and hope the experiment is a resounding success! Not only will this reward you with a bit of Internet fame, it's a great way to boost your positive feedback. I enjoy the comments you leave too. They're much more entertaining than the A+++++++(etc.) that so many other people leave for want of anything else to say.
Thanks again for the items, I'll keep watching your auctions.

Take care,
~ Evil Jim

I love long e-mails like this, they fill me with glee. Here's one from Mandy.

Jessica,

I think I forgot to email you. I've been meaning to for a long time.
Sorry. I was digging around on my desk and found your yellow card, and
here I am.

I found your auctions by accident when I was discussing with my
as-of-today-ex-boyfriend the word "pule". I showed him the page on
Rob's site, and then for fun I went to ebay and did a search for the
word. Then I found you, and your "about me" page, and I couldn't help
but bid.

I hate ebay sometimes. I didn't mean to pay $2 for some stickers. On
my budget, that just doesn't qualify as a sound purchase. Oh well.
It was fun. Maybe I'll get around to using them and send you pics, if
you'd like.

I'm 27, a single mom of three kids ages 9, 7, and 5 (girl/girl/boy),
who live with me half the time and with their dad, whom I divorced
from, a lot of the time. I graduate college May 7 with a degree in
dietetics, and at this moment, I'm pretty lost as to what happens next.

I love Rob's site and I wish you the best. (This is my favorite part
of your page: "I will sell THINGS, if things are what you want me to
sell. But they will be SO CLOSE TO NOT BEING THINGS, you will wonder
why they are even being sold in auction form at all." This amused me
and Jesse both to the point of laughing. That's something, isn't it?)

Sincerely,
Mandy Kirk
Warrensburg, MO

Then a fellow by the ebay moniker of qmoonatnoon sent me an e-mail that set of a chain reaction of hilarity.

Chewbob -

You probably got my previous e-mail asking about combining the
shipments/payments for the blue feather and the weird lollipop. If so,
ignore the rest of this paragraph. Otherwise, I'd like to do that, to
save you a bit of money and hassle (and stamp and envelope and this and
that), if you don't mind. If this is not allowed, please let me know,
and I'll immediately pay for the feather now and the lollipop when I win it.

Because I'm TOTALLY going to win that lollipop. I see this "blooeden"
character tried to win the feather, and came pretty darned close to
stealing it from me at the last second.(well, the last half-hour
anyway), and I see this same character has tried to deprive me of that
lollipop. I will NOT stand for it, Blooeden! Don't even TRY it!

Oops, sorry, that paragraph was a bit misdirected.

Oh, and by the way, I still want to pay the shipping fee for each of the
two auctions, regardless of whether you can fit them both in a
single-stamp envelope or not. That seems only fair. Consider it my
contribution to the Wow, Chewbob Has Cool Auctions! Fund.

- Quin (eBay ID: qmoonatnoon)

Quin,

Sorry for not responding sooner! I have to use walla mail for my ebay
stuff because it's the only free mail ebay will take without demanding
a credit card, so I usually only check it once a week. *hangs head
in shame* If you want to get in contact with me, this is the e-mail
address to do it at! (I should probably put that on the about me
page, huh?) Anyway, I'd be more than happy to send the items
together, there is no reason not to other than the pure joy of getting
two pieces of mail!

I am glad to hear that type of dedication to your auctions! In fact,
I encourage it! I often think to myself that people are sitting at
home battling it out over the vast plains of ebay carnage, sitting
there going, "Uh-uh, nsyncboi2435, you're not getting MY autographed
poster!" Or something like that.

Anyway, it's good to know I'm right!

So, yes, I shall send them both together, and if for some reason you
don't win the lollipop, I'm sure I could send you one anyway since
you've endeared yourself to my heart.

-Chewbob

>Quin,
>
>Sorry for not responding sooner! I have to use walla mail for my ebay
>stuff because it's the only free mail ebay will take without demanding
>a credit card, so I usually only check it once a week. *hangs head
>in shame*
>
eBay can be annoying that way sometimes. I had to create a new e-mail
address (q@moonatnoon.com) to get registered with them, since at some
point I'd registered with their sister company Half.com using my main
e-mail address (quincunx@moonatnoon.com) with a user ID that I ended up
not wanting to transfer over to eBay because, when the two companies
merged, they merged the set of user IDs and changed the Half.com ones
that were already used by eBay. I didn't want to be known as
quincunx_half or whatever they changed the ID to.

The curious bit is that I was also the Quincunx on eBay at some point
long ago, back when I was using a local dialup ISP's e-mail address as
my main one... and when I switched over to the pioneering breakthrough
cable modem service in 2000 (Presque Isle, ME, apparently was a test
market, which was the only reason this tiny town probably got the
service so early), I forgot to let various services, including eBay,
know that I had not only changed my e-mail address, but no longer had
access to the old one. Or something like that.

Hi. My name is Quincunx, and I like to babble.

A preemptive strike, before you ask "Why do you call yourself Quincunx?"
-- it's actually a word I stumbled across in an old book on architecture
and immediately fell in love with because it started with Q and ended in
X. Also, it scores a whopping 311 points if played in Scrabble with no
blanks in a certain position under a certain circumstance (so that the X
ends up in the bottom right corner, for instance, using all seven tiles
in the rack plus a single letter already on the board, assuming nobody
has used up either of the triple word scores or the double letter score
that the C falls on the double letter score -- 29 x 3 x 3 + 50 = 311).
You play that, and you've probably won the entire game... unless, of
course, your opponent then sneaks in "kwyjibo."

There are a number of definitions for the word, including astrological
and orchard-planting-pattern-related, but the most common one is this:
an arrangement of five objects with one in each corner of a square and
one in the center. Like the five-pip side on dice, or like the Purina
checkerboard logo.

# #
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# #

Also, I kind of like the inevitable nickname Quin... even though I'm
neither an Eskimo nor a medicine woman.

As I said before, my name is Quincunx, and I like to babble.

>[...] Anyway, I'd be more than happy to send the items together, there is no reason not to other than the pure joy of getting two pieces of mail!
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I assure you I would be utterly delighted to receive a second piece of
mail from you... but if I *really* want that to happen, I can just win
yet another of your auctions in the future, can't I? ^_^

>I am glad to hear that type of dedication to your auctions! In fact,
>I encourage it! I often think to myself that people are sitting at
>home battling it out over the vast plains of ebay carnage, sitting
>there going, "Uh-uh, nsyncboi2435, you're not getting MY autographed
>poster!" Or something like that.
>
>
I wholly and unabashedly admit that I do this. I often get involved in
bidding in auctions for one of my hobby collections, a Japanese video
game series which was/is fairly popular in Japan but which is relatively
slim pickings on eBay. I will not only bid foolishly and aggressively
on a rare item from this series, but I will curse the ancestries of my
feeble opponents as they try to prevent my inevitable destiny of
acquiring the item. It's gotten so bad that I've had to resort to
last-minute bidding simply to keep my eBay-rage in check, lest my wrath
at being outbid overtake me. And I'm such a calm guy otherwise.

I've also been a seller occasionally, and I've watched the process from
the other end and, simply from the bid listing, I know there are other
people who are just as aggressive about bidding. I was blown away with
my most recent set of auctions (I had to find something to do over a
week's vacation spent at home) at the ridiculously high prices that some
of my items went for. Many of the items sold for more than I paid for
them when I bought them used on eBay myself... and at least one used
item sold for more than the equivalent new item would have cost, even
with shipping from Japan. I'd check in every few hours (it was a boring
vacation), and I'd see the total bids for the auctions just go higher
and higher... I mean, I'd go have lunch, come back 20 minutes later, and
I'd made enough money in that time to pay for my lunch twice. And I
just know 21240jillian was sitting at work saying, "Consarnit,
steve_creaper, you're NOT going to win this blasted auction!" And, of
course, steve_creaper was sitting at home saying, "Strewth! That harlot
21240jillian is trying to thwart my inevitable victory! To arms! Let's
bid *50* shillings!" ^_^

(Of course, I'm sure when I finally hear from steve_creaper, he won't be
talking like that. He'll probably just say "dude im sorry i didnt rite
s00nr ware shud i send my $$ ordr"...)

>So, yes, I shall send them both together, and if for some reason you
>don't win the lollipop, I'm sure I could send you one anyway since
>you've endeared yourself to my heart.
>
>
Thanks! I bought the blue feather out of a pure love for Harvest
Moon... even though I literally have a bag of multicolored (including
blue) feathers not five feet away from my in a box of stuff I'm giving
away. No, actually, it's more than that... it's to support the auction
of someone else who likes Harvest Moon. And foremost, it's to be part
of a fantastic eBay experiment in the pule tradition. I love pule. (I
also am the proud owner of piece D from Rob Cockerham's Jenga costume.)

I'm bidding on the lollipop for quite a different reason... it sounds
absolutely wonderful. Not just for the flavor, but for the inherent
contrast in tastes. It's totally an experiential thing. A friend of
mine included a tequila-flavored lollipop with a tequila worm inside as
part of a Xmas package, and while that was bizarre, it was something I'd
heard of before. I have *never* heard of pineapple and chili powder
together, especially in lollipop form, until now. I suppose I could
just go and buy a pineapple lollipop, give it a lick, and sprinkle chili
powder on it. It might save me a buck or two. But I want to pay homage
to the brilliant person who introduced me to the concept... and the
concept is worth more than the item itself. Kind of like abstract art.

I think this letter ended up being so long because my best friend hasn't
been writing much lately. Lucky you!

Thanks again for combining the two auctions. I'm sure I'll find some
way to express my gratitude other than just paying for the items.

- Quin (eBay ID: qmoonatnoon)

P.S. If you happen to stumble across a 1997 Geo Metro in good condition
while car shopping, I highly recommend it. Mine has been nothing but
joy for me... and if I won a contest where the prize was any new car of
my choice, any make, any model... I'd want a new 1997 Geo Metro. (Mind
you, I really like small cars. If I could get the back seats taken out
and the body shortened a couple of feet, I would.) (The Metro became
part of the Chevy line in 1998. I can't vouch for the model after 1997.)

P.P.S. Now after reading that auction about Rhonda the Honda, I've got
Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" stuck in my head. I'll share my
suffering with you by implanting the relevant lyrics into your head and
letting your subconscious do the rest (if it hasn't already, just from
hearing the title).

"So your girlfriend rolls a Honda, playin' workout tapes by Fonda, but
Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda. My anaconda don't
want none unless you've got buns, hon."

Funny thing is, as I was verifying the lyrics on Google, various sites
indicate that "rolls" should be "throws"(!), "drives", "owns" and,
inexplicably, "grows"(!!). Grows a Honda? Throws a Honda?

There's more, but I think I'll end it on that.

Well, that's all the excitement I've got to report this month. Stay tuned for May, which might be more interesting. I don't know. It may suck. WE'LL SEE!!!

March Update!

2005-04-08T20:10:58Z

Whoo, March went by really fast, considering it was 31 days long. Seems I was only just bitching about February! March was a lot more exciting. People decided they liked me again! I can show my face in public once more! Seems a lot more people are catching onto "365 Days of Ebay", and this is totally exciting to me. I've even got some pictures of sold items in their new homes! Anyway, on to the boring stuff!

March Stat Table!

Date	Item	Starting Bid	Ending Bid	Number of Bids	Pulled?	Winner
March 1st	An envelope, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
March 2nd	Ten of clubs playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 3rd	Random crocheted swatch I made, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	jdrorer
March 4th	Spiffy card, be spiffy! PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	vivid6
March 5th	List of books by Silver Ravenwolf, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 6th	Napoleon Dynamite coupon Sweeeet Offer thing, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	baileybaby_blue
March 7th	Weird devil collage thing I made, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	dpzoot
March 8th	Used Valentine from my friend, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 9th	Pink and Black beaded bun cover, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 10th	INTENSE ORIGINAL Anne Moloney AWESOME ART, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$14.85	10	no	margie512
March 11th	My mom's Triathalon number, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 12th	My High Honors card from school, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 13th	An empty goody bag from a small child's party, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 14th	A drawing of the Aerosmith logo I drew, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	pattyzattic
March 15th	Belated birthday card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	purpleprimate
March 16th	The pictures on my roll picture, thing, sorta, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
March 17th	A story I wrote in 8th grade, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	amlfs
March 18th	Empty Kool-Aid packet w/ attatched dyed yarn, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
March 19th	A paper bag, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
March 20th	Speech-Language Pathologist labels, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$2.25	6	no	joshea1004
March 21st	YMCA swim official badge, BE TOTALLY COOL, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$3.00	2	no	evil-jim
March 22nd	Starbucks charm attatchment thing, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.45	2	no	evil-jim
March 23rd	Spice Statement! Something stupid I did, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
March 24th	One packet of raspberry flavored Emergen-C, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.55	3	no	baileybaby_blue
March 25th	Purpley-bluish knitted swatch thing, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	newwave78
March 26th	Five pull tabs from soda cans, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
March 27th	Sparkly American flag stickers, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.45	2	no	chas_t
March 28th	Mysterious 365 Days of Ebay GRAB BAG, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	dpzoot
March 29th	Photo of Abraham Lincoln's well, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	chas_t
March 30th	Cool German beer coaster, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
March 31st	Pretty yoga schedule business card thing, PULE!!!!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso

My favorite item: Hmm, probably the Speech-Language Pathologist labels. I was pleasantly surprised at how many people found them as hilarious as I did.
My least favorite item: The pictures on a roll thing, I don't know, I wasn't terribly enthused by it.
Item with the highest ending bid: INTENSE ORIGINAL Anne Moloney AWESOME ART. Should her drawings even count toward this category anymore?
Item with the most bids: INTENSE ORIGINAL Anne Moloney AWESOME ART. This is to be expected.
Multiple time winners: This was exciting this time because there were so many new and different winners that there are only a few multiple winners. This pumps me up so much that I'm going to list EVERYONE that won this month!!

synthjesso - 5 times
sibaat - 2 times
baileybaby_blue - 2 times
dpzoot - 2 times
evil-jim - 2 times
chas_t - 2 times
jdrorer - once
vivid6 - once
margie512 - once
pattyzattic - once
purpleprimate - once
amlfs - once
joshea1004 - once
newwave78 - once

Number of people who bid that I didn't know personally: 12!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!

Questions I got on items, and their responses:

Questions for An envelope, PULE!!!!
Q: Do I get the hairy arm or just the envelope?
A: I could ask the owner of the hairy arm if he'd be willing to part with it, however, the shipping would be extra.

Questions for Random crocheted swatch I made, PULE!!!!
Q: Wow! My name is (John)Davis Rorer. I just happened upon your item because I always search "Rorer" and it was in this item discription. I breezed over your explination and decided we must be kin! You seem to have the same RORER spirit we all have! I have done the family genealogy where ylu can read about it on genealogy.com, but eBay they won't let me send you a link via this communuication. You can learn about me via my userid "jdrorer" and click on the about "ME" thingie! Hey, you have all my support and I mean it! Lets do something spectacular! Davis email me at jdrorer@tampabay.rr.com I might buy a lot of your stuff!
A: Wow! I've never actually met another "Rorer" before. I'm the only person I've ever heard of with the name (besides my dad and stuff) so this is pretty cool! Thanks for your support, I appreciate it!

I was pretty excited to hear about this. So excited, that I didn't notice until just now that we both started our respective question and answer with "Wow!".

Questions for Spiffy card, be spiffy! PULE!!!!
Q: Just to let you know...lots of people are putting PULE in their listings now. I would advise people to just add you to their favorites list! Have fun!
A: Actually, I didn't start the pule thing, and I'm always surprised when people think I did :) I got it from here: http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/pule/pule_intro.html I'm a big fan of this guy's site, and he's been doing the pule thing for a while, and so I never list anything without putting pule in :) But I appreciate you adding me to your favorites list, that makes my day!

Questions for INTENSE ORIGINAL Anne Moloney AWESOME ART, PULE!!!!
Q: Much as a I love Moloney's art, I'd like to buy Chewbob's panties! I'll be waiting for that listing as they are of no consequence and fit nicely in an envelope. >;0
A: Alas, Chewbob needs all of her panties, and there would probably be an additional charge for the thickness of the envelope. I fear you will simply have to make do with fine art.

I know that I'm making my mark in the world because people are requesting my undergarments. I TOLD YOU MARCH HAS BEEN AN EXCITING MONTH.

Q: who is this "kevinpittsburgh" fool anyway? why can't his bids be beaten? is he in prison or something? what's his obsession with crudly drawn comics anyway?
A: Man, who knows?? I suspect he's a eccentric millionaire who inherited his great-great-grandfather's millions from the gold rush. He spends his time hunting around on ebay for the most random artwork on which to spend his inheritance, and displays it in a ludicrous museum he commissioned Weird Al to design (since he has a degree in architecture). All the proceeds go to the local children's hospital, all of the children inside of which are too terrified to actually visit said museum. That's just my guess, though.

Questions for My High Honors card from school, PULE!!!!
Q: >Type your question here. Yeah, yeah, like I can't figure that out. Dear eBay Merchant, I am interested in making a bid on the High Honors Cardboard Commemorative Placard, but (as I'm sure you understand) need to know a little more about it. Could you please tell me exactly what the standards were to qualify for High Honors when this placard was awarded? Were such cards awarded on a quarterly basis? And--most important to collectors--can you list what classes you were taking when you received a High Honors designation? And is the figure depicted with the card in the advertisement (presumably to give a sense of scale) the same individual who was awarded the card? Profusely thanking you for your assistance, I remain Dr. K. D. Jones Rochester NY
A: Hmm, it's been a while since I've been in high school, so I'll do my best to remember what the answers to your questions are! Let's see: The standards for "Highest Honors" were an overall average of 93 or above, and I THINK the standards for "High Honors" (this card) were an overall average between 86 and 93...I THINK. Cards were indeed awarded on a quarterly basis. As far as what classes I was taking, I don't remember for sure, but I'm sure it was some type of the following classes: History, German, Math, Religion, Lunch, PE maybe?, English, and Science. And yes, the card is being posed with by me, the card winner.

Questions for Empty Kool-Aid packet w/ attatched dyed yarn, PULE!!!!
Q: What color was your hair before? It doesn't look like the dye is still there. Are you trying to trick us?
A: I trick you not! I dyed it...let's see...about five years ago? I dyed it pink with kool-aid, and since I'm blonde, it stayed in there. It faded a lot, but my hair was still tinged slightly pink. The only way I finally got rid of it was that it grew out, and I cut off the dyed parts. Kool-Aid is AMAZING STUFF.

Questions for Speech-Language Pathologist labels, PULE!!!!
Q: You're pretty funny
A: Thanks!

Questions for Sparkly American flag stickers, PULE!!!!
Q: Also, did these stickers have some sort of covering between them and her while they were hanging down her shirt? (For the record, I think THAT is a dangling participle.)
A: No, but she had just bathed, so it's okay.
Q: A dangling participle is about missuse of an -ing verb. For example: "Hurrying to feed them, the dogs bit Roger." "Hurrying to feed them" is a dangling participle.
A: Ah, now I recall! I always thought that it was stupid that anyone could ever make that mistake, and therefore disregarded that particular grammatical issue.

Aaaaand finally, those wonderful, caring people that let me know how they discovered my project! The winner of the Spiffy card sent me a picture of her and her coworkers with the card! This is the coolest thing ever! Her story is behind the cut.

Hi! I bought your Spiffy Card on E-bay last month and I wanted to share with you what I did with it! I found out about your 365 days of E-Bay experiment on accident actually, every Friday at my work we get bored and we look through the Slightly Unusual section on E-Bay for some laughs. We happened to find one of your items and I thought it was so cool-because I work for a company as a temp and there are 2 other temps here and they put us in the conference room, because we are just not cool enough for a cubicle I guess. So we have been calling our room the Spiffy Room, because we think that we are cooler than everyone else that has a cubicle, so when I found that Spiffy Card I thought it was so perfect! So here is a picture of us temps in front of our fun board and proudly holding the Spiffy Card!

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Hey Jessica,
I just got your wonderful coupon thingy and it's totally sweet! How I found out about your crazy experiment? Well I love all things Napoleon, so as I was searching for cool shirts and whatnot, I stumbled upon your stuff. I was immediately intrigued! Are you making any sweet moolah or just paying fees? Sometimes the fees can kill ya! I don't have any crap to sell right now, but I think it's time to dig some up. I'm gonna add you to my FAVE sellers so I can check out your stuff and see how it's going. I'll probably bid on more stuff so when you get all famous I can say that I was part of the experiment !

Later, Chrissy

I find this awesome because she said "sweet moolah". This item totally went to the right person.

AND HEY, keep your eyes out for the INCREDIBLE 100TH ITEM, it's coming April 10th. I expect to see you there.

As of right now, this journal has 6 friends. It's time to start keeping obsessive track of that, too.

February Update!!!!

2005-03-16T21:09:52Z

Well, February was a rather lame month, in that we lost our internet connection at home and I've been having to find various other places to update 365 Days of Ebay. Also, lots of stuff didn't sell this month, which I attribute to everyone being LAME!

But that's okay. At least this update is here, better late than never.

Date	Item	Starting Bid	Ending Bid	Number of Bids	Pulled?	Winner
Feb 1st	Pattern for a crochet plush boa, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	khieri
Feb 2nd	Three of spades playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
Feb 3rd	Humerous Garfield the cat postcard, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$1.25	5	no	synthjesso
Feb 4th	Insanely weird chip label display things, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Feb 5th	Coupon for Papa John's, free large pizza, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Feb 6th	Program for Li'l Abner, local theater school, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.55	2	no	dpzoot
Feb 7th	Facing up to Acne, informational pamphlet, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	>synthjesso
Feb 8th	Cover of 1997 Teen Beat, Hanson, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.46	2	no	radiopipes
Feb 9th	Five of spades playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
Feb 10th	Little Aerosmith picture from Nine Lives, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	dpzoot
Feb 11th	Original Jessica Chewbob Chewbob, WEIRD, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.68	3	no	synthjesso
Feb 12th	Liberty Tax Service coupon, raise your hand, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.46	2	no	justbuying11
Feb 13th	Newspaper article about Hanson album, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
Feb 14th	LOVEY MAN!, Popsicle stick doll my mom made, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.80	2	no	mr.farkle
Feb 15th	Classics at the Modern schedule of events, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Feb 16th	Queen of spades playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Feb 17th	USED Happy Bunny air freshener, no smell left, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$1.15	4	no	synthjesso
Feb 18th	Participant YMCA ribbon, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Feb 19th	Tamagotchi STICKERS, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	khieri
Feb 20th	Pattern for a fun bag, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Feb 21st	Cover of 1998 SuperTeen, Hanson, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Feb 22nd	Rasputina promotional postcard, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$4.75	4	no	breakfast_at_tiffanys
Feb 23rd	King of spades playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Feb 24th	Chart of the nerve system, that's your SPINE!, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.60	4	no	synthjesso
Feb 25th	Pattern for a Bougainvillea Handbag, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Feb 26th	100 Colones, Costa Rican currency, PULE!!	$0.40	$1.26	4	no	jdrorer
Feb 27th	Pattern for a crocheted purse, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Feb 28th	Teeny tiny miniature oragami crane, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	dpzoot

February stats:

My favorite item: Lovey Man, fo' sheezy and whatnot.
My least favorite item: I've grown wary of the knitting/crochet patterns, no one wants 'em. I think I'll stop posting them. Also, no one seems to want the cards, but I haven't given up on that in my heart yet.
Item with the highest ending bid: I didn't sell any AnnE art this month, so it ended up being the Rasputina promotional postcard, which went for $4.75.
Item with the most bids: Surprisingly enough, a different item got this title, the Humerous Garfield the cat postcard, with 5 bids! Most of the items in February reached a maximum bid number of 4. Lame. Very lame.
Multiple time winners:
synthjesso - 9 times
sibaat - 3 times
dpzoot - 3 times
khieri - 2 times

Number of people who bid that I didn't know personally: 6

Questions I got on items, and their responses:

Questions for Insanely weird chip label display things, PULE!!!!
Q: do you have any "frito-lay" frito's corn chips? they are my favorites! thanks.
A: God, yes, I have tons. I was gonna stop doing these chip label things since no one bids on them, but I'll do a special one later on with just fritos since you have requested them! Look for them mid-February. You can also check my about me page for updates! (I am very lame and I never did this.)

Questions for Coupon for Papa John's, free large pizza, PULE!!!!
Q: Could you use the coupon and mail me the pizza? Extra cheese please!
A: Alas, I don't believe the postal service allows mailing perishables. But the coupon could make a lovely conversation piece if placed appropriately in your sitting room.

Questions for Program for Li'l Abner, local theater school, PULE!!!!
Q: Does this "program" include a video-tape of the performance?
A: No, it's just the program, you have to use your imagination about what the performance was like!

Questions for Cover of 1997 Teen Beat, Hanson, PULE!!!!
Q: do you wear that same shirt everyday?
A: No, I just take a whole bunch of pictures at once, so it does look as if I'm wearing the same shirt. You can tell which pictures were taken on different days if you watch the changing of the shirt, if you are that into what I'm wearing.

Questions for Original Jessica Chewbob Chewbob, WEIRD, PULE!!!!
Q: Is this item GENUINE? Thanks for your time. e-boyz
A: This item is 100% majorly genuine! It is the actual drawing I drew that fateful day in algebra, not one of the many reproductions I did for friends/fun.

Questions for Liberty Tax Service coupon, raise your hand, PULE!!!!
Q: ... but how much money can i REALLY save?
A: That's between you and your tax service.

Questions for Newspaper article about Hanson album, PULE!!!!
Q: what newspaper is this article from?
A: The article is from the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, May 12-18 (I don't know, that's what it says on the bottom), 2000.

Questions for Queen of spades playing card, PULE!!!!
Q: why is this just a single card? i do not understand?
A: Because I'm selling an entire deck of cards ONE AT A TIME!! Get it? One card? At a...time...oh man...I find this hysterical.

Questions for USED Happy Bunny air freshener, no smell left, PULE!!!!
Q: where are the comic drawings from anne?
A: They're coming, dude, don't worry! They can't just all go at the beginning of the year. Patience will yield a great abundance of Anne artwork. Fear not!

Questions for Pattern for a fun bag, PULE!!
Q: Is that a funfur purse?
A: I believe so! Well spotted! I believe you use a double strand of funfur and microspun. I'm not at home with the pattern right now, or I'd check.

Questions for Chart of the nerve system, that's your SPINE!, PULE!!!!
Q: my spine is curved. will that be a problem?
A: I don't think it would be a problem, provided you still have all of your vertabrae. If you are for some reason missing any of your vertabrae, this chart may be difficult to follow in relation to your own spine.

When I send out an item to a person I've never met or heard of before, I include a beautiful handwritten note asking them to please let me know how they heard of 365 Days of Ebay, because I am a curious person. These are the people who ACTUALLY WROTE ME BACK!!!

Ms. Wagstrom,
Although I received my 365 days of e-bay item weeks ago, I somehow lost
the envelope and just opened it tonight. I found your note, and thought
I'd go ahead and let you know where I heard of your project and why I bid
on the Nov, 1997 BOP cover with Hanson. First of all, I learned of your
project via Anne Maloney's livejournal, when she posted about the
auctioning of her placemat drawing. I kept up with the project after that,
and when I saw the Hanson BOP cover, I was interested, due to my own
earlier collections of such Hanson memorabilia. I thought that bidding on
this item would allow me to support 365 days of e-bay, and to relive a bit
of my youth. Ironically, I am listening to Hanson as I am writing this, a
music selection I made about two hours before my discovery of the
envelope. Apparently it is a night for nostalgia. Hope everything is going
well with the 365 days of e-bay project.

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Hello. You asked how I found your auction and why I bid.

I found it doing a search for low-priced items on eBay (can't remember the area). I bid on it since I was looking to quickly and cheaply increase my feedback. To post more than 10 messages a day on the eBay message boards, you need feedback of 10+. At the time, I had feedback of 2. Now, I have 12. If you leave positive feedback, I'll be at 13.

This is my personal favorite, the "I just need feedback" approach to bidding! What an honest young man! (I really have no idea how old he is.)

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This one is from ebay user dpzoot, whom I have lovingly dubbed in my head "Deep Zoot" (and later came to realize that "dp" probably stood for "Domino's Pizza"), she was the very first to let me know how she heard of me!

Hi,

You wanted to know how I heard about your project. I saw the Domino's Pizza crushed red pepper on a search I have for DP items. At first I thought I read it wrong. Then I had to look at the auction to see what was up, and I read your Me thing. Love the idea, and just wanted to help out, so there I go, bidding on stuff! I hope you don't lose any steam - its been fun to watch!

Since I'm kind of doing this with my spare time right now, I don't have March planned out. It's sort of getting listed as I go. But I'm sure some exciting stuff will be listed! That's right, you should keep paying attention! You should tell all of your friends! You should buy a billboard and let America know about 365 Days of Ebay! (I'd do it but I'm only making forty cents a day, guys, dang.)

JANUARY OVERVIEW!!

2005-02-13T21:23:44Z

Here is the first official overview of "365 Days of Ebay"! Month of January. I'm starting this up a bit late, but since it was pointed out to me that if I keep the table up on my About Me page all year, it will get ridiculously long. So here's the lj, the OVERVIEW LJ. I'll keep my stat tables logged here month by month, as well as other things I found interesting about the month.

Date	Item	Starting Bid	Ending Bid	Number of Bids	Pulled?	Winner
Jan 1st	Two Buffy & Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.30	$0.30	1	no	synthjesso
Jan 2nd	Two Buffy & Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.30	$0.30	0	no	nobody
Jan 3rd	An original Anne Moloney, draw on an IHOP menu, PULE!!	$0.30	$5.50	11	no	ladyancients
Jan 4th	Notification of Baggage Inspection, PULE!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Jan 5th	Four of clubs playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	e-boyz
Jan 6th	The receipt for my 365 days of ebay envelopes, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	blue2812
Jan 7th	These weird chip label display things, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	2	no	synthjesso
Jan 8th	Two Buffy trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Jan 9th	Two Buffy/Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Jan 10th	Window sticker alerting people of bad produce, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$4.25	9	no	khieri
Jan 11th	Kaiju Big Battel sticker, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$6.00	6	no	synthjesso
Jan 12th	Six of clubs playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Jan 13th	EMPTY box of melon flavored aqua drops, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.65	3	no	banjometal
Jan 14th	More weird chip label display things, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$1.25	3	no	naiad_kitty
Jan 15th	Two Buffy/Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	banjometal
Jan 16th	Two Buffy & Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	banjometal
Jan 17th	Directions for Being a Genius, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$1.25	6	no	synthjesso
Jan 18th	Crushed red pepper from Domino's Pizza, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	mmaryph_aol.com
Jan 19th	Jack of spades playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$1.01	4	no	banjometal
Jan 20th	Colorful congratulations and stars stickers, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.74	2	no	banjometal
Jan 21st	Some more weird chip label display things, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
Jan 22nd	Two Buffy trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	meganflamingo
Jan 23rd	Two Buffy & Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
Jan 24th	Cover of 1997 Bop, Hanson and JTT, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	laleonaenojada
Jan 25th	Skillman Wok takeout menu, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.45	2	no	amlfs
Jan 26th	Five of clubs playing card, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	sibaat
Jan 27th	Third Place YMCA ribbon, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$4.20	10	no	amlfs
Jan 28th	These weird chip label display things, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	0	no	nobody
Jan 29th	Two Buffy/Angel trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40	1	no	synthjesso
Jan 30th	Two Buffy trading cards, PULE!!!!	$0.40	$0.40/TD>	1	no	sibaat
Jan 31st	Original Anne Moloney, Vincent Price doodle, PULE!!	$0.40	$15.56	18	no	kevinpittsburgh

Some other stats that are probably only interesting to me:

My favorite item: Window sticker alerting people of bad produce
My least favorite item: All the Buffy cards and chip labels, they started to frustrate me because they stopped being interesting after the first week.
Item with the highest ending bid: Anne's Vincent Price doodle, sold for $15.56
Item with the most bids: Anne's Vincent Price doodle, 18 bids.
Multiple time winners:
synthjesso - 7 times
banjometal - 5 times
sibaat - 4 times
amlfs - 2 times

Here's some stuff that's coming up in February that I'm looking forward to:

Valentine's Day (February 14th): My mom has become obsessed with finding stuff for me to sell for this project, so one day she handcrafted a beautiful doll out of a popsicle stick and other junk from our craft cabinet. His name? "Lovey Man"! Lovey Man is probably my favorite thing I'm selling this month.

February 18th: The much anticipated "Participant" YMCA swimming ribbon! You may recall the auction for the third place ribbon. If you were not lucky enough to win third place, maybe you could at least have participated!

February 26th: 100 Colones, currency from Costa Rica! This is the first item I'm selling that I'm nervous about getting pulled. In previous stupid ebay listing attempts, I got several auctions pulled, among them "The right to give me money" and "blame for my history test grade" (an auction I hope to try again in a more serious fashion, as it was pulled for being a joke). Since I'm not 100% sure of ebay's foreign currency policies, we may not see the sale of this item! Truly, it will be an exciting day.