eBaying at the moon, again...

[alexpgp]

I just posted my first item on eBay in... very nearly a year. (Hmmm. I could have sworn it was longer!)

It took me forever to do so. (Hmmm. I could have sworn it was longer!)

And I'm not sure I did a very good job of "optimizing" where it appears in their classification system.

We've been invited to dinner tonight, at another Mexican place (I have to admit, Ramone's was starting to get to me.)

I seem to have experienced a relapse with regard to a disease once characterized by a junior-high English teacher of mine as "parenthesitis" (the overuse of parenthetical remarks in one's writing).

(Ah, well!)

Cheers...

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[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

I just recently have bought my first item off eBay (appeared to be an XDA Exec). This happened on Friday night. The feedback of the seller was 136.

It's Sunday night now. I'm yet to receive any response from her. I really want to think she was out for weekends and that she responds the first thing in the morning...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

While it's somewhat unusual, this kind of behavior - taking the weekend off - is not unheard of. If it were me, I'd set up an auto-answer on my account to let people know they haven't been forgotten (even if they're being ignored, ahem :^).

Cheers...

[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

If I were to believe in Astrology, I'd definitely say that I'm just going through stagnation period, just like I wrote in my recent entry (http://eastexpert.livejournal.com/250847.html). Everything just seemed to suddenly stop moving, like it was under the spell of "Petrificus Totalus".

But here comes Monday, and everything must move. Electricians, eBay seller, my excruciating Internet CRC errors, illness (already nearly gone).

Re: eBay, I believe the account hasn't been hijacked (I saw one, but you could see clear sign of -- 10 items simultaneously put onto sale, with similar appeal in item description -- to write on some funny e-mail instead of using PayPal and eBay preferred routine.) -- so I hardly can expect being swindled out of my money after she's spent 1½ years to build up her rep up to +136. :)

[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

P.S. "parenthesitis" is something I'm also guilty of. In fact I start to ardently remove parenthesized sentences as soon as I detect them consciously and convert them to separate ones with logical links to main sentences...

The ideal here being (allegedly) Stalin who spoke in "chainmail" fashion... short sentences of type: "A, hence B. B, hence C. C, hence D." -- no wonder his speeches got down to the most undeveloped layers of Soviet society.