What did you discover on ebay that you'd like to buy, and is totally not related to what you........

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[Sorry for the long thread title folks.]

........you were looking for?

I was looking at rare (allegedly) 50p coins and this came up:

Ebay linky.

I'm up there with most of you, probably, that the rainbow-esque colours thing isn't my thing. However, what manly man could pass such an opportunity? Matching Hex and Torx!

So, as per the thread title, what have you been looking for on ebay (or other online sites) and ended up coming away with?

Slàinte,

FB..
 
Oh my.

The first four respondents' replies appear to have been deleted by the mods. I wonder what was so bad about their posts replying to this, the most light-hearted of subjects.
 
Years ago I was looking for a t-shirt...and ended up buying an Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser (big ol' American car from the '80s).
 
JRS said:
Years ago I was looking for a t-shirt...and ended up buying an Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser (big ol' American car from the '80s).
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This is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested to hear about. Looking for one thing, end up buying something totally different.

Got pics?
 
FBi7 said:
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested to hear about. Looking for one thing, end up buying something totally different.

Got pics?
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God, it was more than a decade ago now. I'd have to go on a hunt. But imagine this...

KHw1zoV.jpg


...with sunburnt paint, flaking wood-effect trim and mismatched wheel covers. Wonderful car*, but back then I wasn't nearly good enough of a mechanic to keep on top of everything that needed doing. Add in finances (not having enough!) and a minor breakdown in the brain department, I had to offload it.

* - the carb had gigantic vacuum secondaries on it, so when you floored it you could hear all the air from the postcode you were in disappearing into the intake. Wasn't overly powerful (170BHP tops) but had all the torque.
 
@JRS :D

A humungous Scalextric set - collection only and err, I cannot go and get it (its miles away). I have no idea what I will do to store it or whenever I will set it up.

Now telling myself its a good investment and for my retirement. :o I am sucker for retro toys, got Tamiya kits, Big Trak etc. eBay and me, nightmare.
 
Its the random suggestions of "other people looked at ..." and some of them can be strange.

Night vision monoculars would be the latest thing I keep getting drawn to.
 
Donnie Fisher said:
Night vision monoculars would be the latest thing I keep getting drawn to.
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just make sure not to get suckered into a gen 1 unit, it works ok but you really need IR which is gonna turn you into a lighthouse for that one ******* that brought a gpnvg because he makes too much money.....

in fairness, i am interested in night vision monoculars and instead i get reccommended some VR projector setup that lets you go cycling but indoors, except it looks like outdoors.
 
JRS said:
God, it was more than a decade ago now. I'd have to go on a hunt. But imagine this...

KHw1zoV.jpg


...with sunburnt paint, flaking wood-effect trim and mismatched wheel covers. Wonderful car*, but back then I wasn't nearly good enough of a mechanic to keep on top of everything that needed doing. Add in finances (not having enough!) and a minor breakdown in the brain department, I had to offload it.

* - the carb had gigantic vacuum secondaries on it, so when you floored it you could hear all the air from the postcode you were in disappearing into the intake. Wasn't overly powerful (170BHP tops) but had all the torque.
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That's pretty effin epic! Proper American Station Wagon. Hope you're feeling better these days though.

Thanks for sharing,

FB..
 
JRS said:
But imagine this...
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You bought one of those instead of a t-shirt? That's a serious misclick and I bet you were pretty surprised when the postie turned up to delivery that instead of letter post :D

Love your description about the air being sucked in, really made me laugh.
 
Feek said:
You bought one of those instead of a t-shirt? That's a serious misclick and I bet you were pretty surprised when the postie turned up to delivery that instead of letter post :D
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:p

It's like playing six degrees on Wikipedia, you start out searching one thing and end up in a wildly different place to where you started.

Feek said:
Love your description about the air being sucked in, really made me laugh.
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Those Rochester Q-jets make a particular hoovering sound at WOT ;)
 
I don't tend to end up with something other than what I want, but I do get drawn in a bit with eBay. I'll go looking for something, then find myself following ~20 different listings for it looking for the average sale price and trying to work out what it's worth to decide which of the next ~20 listings to bid on.

Most recent random purchase came from a chat with a friend who said something like "do you remember that Tony Hawk's game where the controller was an actual board?" which sent me straight to eBay. My response at the end of the conversation was "it belongs in a museum" so I'm now the proud owner of one.
 
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