Many years ago Lo, she is a terrible Goddess and I bought a couple of cars at auction. These were the days when the dealers carried around the first mobile phones. The handset was the size of a brick and they used to tow small trailers behind them that held the batteries.
A few less ‘many years ago’ we had an antique shop and used to buy stock at auction in the SE and the SW of England. Occasionally there were bidders on the phone but it was rare.
The local auction house now has regular bidders on the landline, on smart phones and on computers and sometimes there’s even a video link. Incidentally there’s often a TV film crew there as well supplying the always hungry market for the innumerable antique shows on day time television.
Today I’m selling my first ever item on eBay. You’ll never guess what it is. No, it isn’t the petrol from the dead Volvo, it’s the roof bars from the dead Volvo! I was going to give them to a charity shop or offer them on a freecycle site but thought it would be fun to try eBay. I’m getting over excited as the bidding is already up to 99p and there are several hours to go.
(I wonder if there’s a section for used Peabrains – ‘Breakers only”? Or, maybe I could replace some of this one’s more defunct parts and revive it, I mean, him. Thinks… Lo,TG Ed)
Stumble It!
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Is there a market for used pea brain parts?
Oh dear, has something fallen off?
I don’t know *looking around for fallen spare parts on the floor*
Unfortunately, I don’t have a clapped out volvo to put them on, so I won’t be bidding…
Join the clan … still at 99p!
bars? can they be fashioned into a cage?
If necessary … still 99p … *sigh*
you could always bid on it yourself and drive the price up, unless that’s your 99p on the books, in which case you should stop while your ahead.
Rig the auction!!!?! …. brilliant …. whooosh
I remember a certain interview of Jane Fonda. The interchange had reached the point where Ms. Fonda was “fondly” recalling the day she discovered Ted Turner was cheating on her. When asked what she did, she said “I hit him with my phone.” The interviewer, being a rather young thing, obviously did not think that was much of a punishment. However, that happened back in the day when probably the phone she hit him with was like those Motorolas you depict. He’s lucky he survived.
No need for racks (or bars) here… sorry.
Just revving up to the denouement … £5!!!! … and it serves Ted right, dirty rotten swine.
£21 !!!! … I’m rich I tell you … RICH!
I have a 1994 Motorola mobile phone [the same one as seen on Trigger Happy TV] I showed it to a 28 year old colleague who said ‘how do you text and get on lie with it?’ oh those heady days when phones just phoned … £21 the drinks are on you then?