AA: Auction Adventure

Auctions are fun!

Yesterday was marked a new experience with the balladeer... bidding in an auction. Nope, we didn't go to an aution house or some dingy museum to purchase a rare Malang collectible. It was a simple transaction over ebay.ph riddled with fiascos left and right. hahaha.

well it started simply enough. I was surfing through ebay.ph looking for VERY CHEAP PDAs (capitalized in case somebody who reads this makes an offer... yep, i'm still looking for one). i then saw an item that struck my interest-- a usb lamp. Why? well, ian was looking for one last saturday (see Sarap ka-Movie post). I texted ian and asked if he wanted to check out the item since it was very cheap at 380 pesos. Knowing how busy he is, I also asked him if he wanted me to transact for him should he like the item. He replied by saying "Pesos na? Cge." So i asked him what his maximum bid was. "500" was the answer.

so i logged on and posted 450 as initial bid (don't bid your max amount agad... leave some room in case someone challenges you). wow... top bidder. great.

after a few hours, ian followed up.

ian: kamusta lamp natin
me: tayo highest bidder. after 7 hours pa. mamaya pa yung deadline eh.
ian: ah ok. sige, just let me know kung magbago
me: alright

(somehow this conversation makes me think of GMA's "hello, Garci"... like "hello, jude, nanalo na ba... ah sir hindi pa eh, mamaya pa closing ng [uncomprehensible]... ah ganun ba, sige sabihan mo lang ako, basta we have to win this... ok, sir...." me and my overactive imagination talaga!)

after another set of hours, i went home, bought an internet card, planned to monitor the last leg of the auction. when i got home, i found my sister on the phone... "oi, i need the fone, later ka na. i need to monitor an auction." "eh hindi kaya nag-oopen pc mo."

i was like "whaaaatttt? noooooooo!" while crying buckets and buckets of chicken... tears... i meant tears! damn i was hungry! (dream sequence ha! don't take literally! joke lang po ito!)

so i went to the pc and tried to open it... man, it WAS broken! ian just texted pa naman asking on the status. so i texted all the CF night prowlers. leola, therese, dana, and ned. First to answer was leola. Unfortunately, she couldn't go online. Then ned called... then dana texted.

Since i was already conversing with ned and he had broadband internet (meaning fone while online), i asked him to monitor the bid. Hah?! We were outbid? No! So I texted Ian:

me: bro, na outbid tayo at 500
ian: add 50 more
me: ned, 50 pa raw
ned: highest bidder na .... yung amount
me: eh yan din yun kanina, ibig sabihin may ka-tie
me: ian, highest bid na pero may ka-tie
ian: malamang siya din yun. 600
me: 600 daw ned. mamomonitor mo pa ba?
ned: highest bidder na. di na eh....
me: ok... paano kaya...
me: bro, my laptop broke down, di ko na mamomonitor yung bid. last 40 mins to go
ian: saan dito (i assume nag-online na siya)
me: log in ka sa account ko

then... no more load. hahaha!

the next day, i learned from ian that he was able to win the lamp. so i'm getting it for him tom. yun lang.

walang kwenta yung blog no? hahahaha!