Ebay coincidences

SexyGreyFox · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:11

My mate asked me to look for an item on Ebay which is an old horror series called From beyond The Grave. I found it and sent the seller a question. I then looked at his other items and he had Stoke City DVD's which I passed on to my other mate at work. Lets realise that this seller could be anywhere in the world even though he's selling Stoke City gear. He eventually made contact and he lives 10 houses from the SCFC buyer and 100 yards from the horror movie buyer.
Now thats a coincidence.

The closest I got was about 4 years ago when I bid on a Jethro Tull DVD.
I won the bid and the bloke lived two miles from me.

Surely someone on here as got closer than that?

hyper_piper45 · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:13

I bought a graphics card of ebay before and the guy lived in leicester. Went and picked it up from him the same day. Saved on postage

He must have been about 5-6 miles away though.

Nismo · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:16

Bought a camera from a guy off eBay who lived no more than a 15 minute walk away.

steinooo · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:17

haha no way!! massive Fenton eBay community!

bcjames · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:18

It wasnt eBay but the guy on Harmony Central I bought my POD from lived a few mins away and dropped it in after work

I didnt know till he asked where abouts I lived to calculate postage.

cleanbluesky · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:20

I bid on my own item once, does that count?

SexyGreyFox · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:21

stokefan said:
haha no way!! massive Fenton eBay community!

And he's sent me a list of Music DVD's which I'm going to indulge and I live by the Heron Cross roundabout

Datamonkey · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:37

cleanbluesky said:
I bid on my own item once, does that count?

Now that cracked me up!!

cheets64 · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:37

I once sold a VGA cable for the 360 and my dad won it :eek:

chris_r · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:39

cheets64 said:
I once sold a VGA cable for the 360 and my dad won it

You got to be kidding?

cleanbluesky · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:39

Datamonkey said:
Now that cracked me up!!

Wouldn't have if you were one of the other bidders!

jezsoup · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:45

cheets64 said:
I once sold a VGA cable for the 360 and my dad won it

Is that a case of getting him to bump up your auction to inflate the price and it went a bit wrong?? tut tut

William · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:47

My brother tried to be funny one day and tried to sell my PC on the bay. It went for £1500 in the end. He got smacked with the ebay fees.

cleanbluesky · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:48

cheets64 said:
I once sold a VGA cable for the 360 and my dad won it

Were you a hardarse and made him pay postage?

Ukadder · 31 Mar 2006 at 15:51

Friend got a presidents of the United stated CD for 1p, walked to the guys house which was 10mins away to collect it.

gib786 · 31 Mar 2006 at 16:13

my mate placed a bit on a laptop i was selling and won, picked it up 5 mins later, sucky though as i had to pay the ebay fees

wez130 · 31 Mar 2006 at 16:20

i won a gameboy avance last year, the lad worked about 5 miles away from me and lived about 4 miles the other way away, he delivered it to me