Ok, so I have been scammed into a few schemes and different financial traps.  I like to call them life learning lessons.  Currently, I am enrolled in 6 life learning lessons on a popular website you may be familiar with, Ebay.  You see, I got all starry eyed over some makeup on there cause I’ve been watching these tutorials on youtube and I am really interested in giving it a shot cause some of the looks they do are very awesome.  I wanted to get a specific brand of makeup, and I guess I could have just gone out and bought it for retail at Sephora at the mall, but no, that wouldn’t have been as much fun and there would have been absolutley zero learning opportunity.

So, instead I went on Amazon.com and found the makeup I wanted for about $70.00.  I didn’t want to pay that much and I had heard the makeup kit advertised on one of the tutorial videos to be sold on Ebay.  I raced to Ebay.  I found the kit for 39.99, I bid on it, I was out bid, I bid again, and again I was outbid, mind you there is like 2 days left on this particular auction.

Next, I thought it would be good to try another auction so I bid on another makeup kit, I lost that bid too, bid again and lost, so of course the only other thing to do was to bid on yet another makeup kit (the same brand and style just a different seller).  So, this one actually worked and I currently have the highest bid on it at about 60.00.  

I got a little distracted and bid on this eye cream stuff too and lost so I bid on it with another seller and I am still in the running for that, oh yeah and some makeup brushes, I’m in the running for those still as well.  My total if I win these items is about $111.00.  Just like that I blew 100 bones, nice huh?  Yeah, that’s what I do.  I shop!  A LOT!  

So anyhoo, I got to thinking, “Why is my “MyEbay” page so cluttered with all of these items that I have lost the bidding war on?” ”Let’s delete them!” “NO!” says Ebay, only if you want a black mark on your profile. 

By the way, I almost forgot to mention, my boyfriend saved me from entering my credit card into iOffer.com last nite for the same makeup kit for only 0.32 cents.  I didn’t buy it, but I kinda wonder if maybe that was his little plan to get the great deal for himself-haha just kidding he doesn’t wear makeup, but I did see a tutorial on a guy that was getting eyeliner, they called it “Guyliner”.  It was really funny.

Ok, back to the point, I got to thinkin’, if Ebay won’t let me retract unless I want a mark on my profile, what if I was the seller who had made up fake profiles and set my max bid somewhere around $80 bucks per makeup kit in order to drive up the price and then at the last minute back out, leaving marks all over their fake profiles yet, also leaving some unsuspecting sap such as myself holding the sad bag.  :0(

Oh, I hope this doesn’t happen, oh I hope it does not.  If it does, I will be in for about 250.00 worth of makeup.  You see the way that this story even gets sweeter, at least for the reader, is that I didn’t just bid on items that are closing in a couple of minutes or hours, I have bid on 6 seperate items that range from closing times begining tomorrow morning to 6 days and 19 hours from now.  Ugh!  What have I done?  I have a feeling I may be learning how to use Ebay here the hard way.  If you are thinking about doing something new in your life, check with me first and if it’s been done the wrong way, for sure it was me that did it and I would be happy to share with you my follies.

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