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Sharing a recent wonderful experience to share when selling a wagon on ebay.

Sold a Bachmann JGA wagon for £96.00!

After doing some checking on the 2 that were bidding each other up it transpired (I recognised the address from an earlier sale) that both lived in the same house

Some years ago, my wife bought a bed on ebay (it was fairly local - so could pick-up), there was only one other bidder - my son, who lives elsewhere. Luckily the bed only cost twenty pounds more than it could have. We all had a good laugh about it afterwards.

My mother gave a brass tray to the local church jumble sale. It was used for many years under a goldfish bowl on the sideboard.

A couple if weeks later our next door neighbour gave it to my mother, saying "I bought this for you because I know you like this sort of thing"

Rog (RJ) wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:38 am My mother gave a brass tray to the local church jumble sale. It was used for many years under a goldfish bowl on the sideboard.

A couple if weeks later our next door neighbour gave it to my mother, saying "I bought this for you because I know you like this sort of thing"

We actually have had the same but with other things like clothes. Keep getting an elderly lady who finds it cold when she visits so she keeps sending me very thick jumpers which I would only ever wear about once every two or three years as I find them too claustrophobic and I keep telling her... She helps in a charity and though
she lives some 40 miles from here in another area, I do get the feeling some of these jumpers come back. (I have said I wear thinner jumpers with zips and I wear jackets or I wear a zipped fleece where I have two or three. I am ok for jumpers!)

Anyway. This last Christmas I had to laugh. I have had rather limited access to shops due to finding the experience stressful and my Mum is also finding the same so when we do find a quiet shop we can go in it is not that often, so I did manage to find a shop which after a few tries I did get one or two things.
Came Christmas, and both brothers were here and one had some of his children (His others were with their Mum) and my youngest brothers wife.
Now we opened presents and while we did not get two things the same, we did open up the same presents for each other. It was funny! My Mum had bought some of the same things that I had, and yet strangely with rather large yellow boxed board games, we had not noticed! How we did not notice I don't know.

I did mention before about a conversation on a preserved line where many met at lunchtime as there were several groups of people that day each working on their own loco or up there to move things or like I was, acompanying someone I know to take a load of parts to his loco which had recently ended up there.
During the conversation one of them told his friend how he tried to bid for a loco grill for him but the price went up and up until it reached a level where he would not pay for it! It turned out that the only other person bidding was his friend who owned the loco and had bought the grill. There were some interesting words passed back and fore and some chuckles by others who knew them!

Rog (RJ) wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:38 am My mother gave a brass tray to the local church jumble sale. It was used for many years under a goldfish bowl on the sideboard.

A couple if weeks later our next door neighbour gave it to my mother, saying "I bought this for you because I know you like this sort of thing"