Don't eBay and Drive

Normally, I try to be a responsible eBay user. I read the description twice, verify the return policy, and skeptically review seller ratings. To this day I've never had a negative eBay experience (unless you count having to wait for things to arrive because they haven't invented instant-delivery).

While looking for new plugs last week, hubby introduced me to the eBay app on my Android. Can you say woohoo for mobile shopping? Just what I need, conveniently accessible splurge-shopping locating at my fingertips anywhere! I promise that is totally not sarcasm...

Fast forward to this morning after a long sleepless night with sick Baby A. As I lay staring at the ceiling in bed, yelling for Miss K to get out of bed in the next room, I realized that girl needs her own alarm clock. An alarm clock that makes her responsible for getting up and moving without me nagging for twenty minutes to get moving.

"Oh, hey, look at that, eBay at my fingertips!" I say, as I race around the house trying to get ready in thirty minutes what normally take sixty. Commence distracting half-attentioned search for a cutesy alarm clock. Done! I found cute alarm clocks that light up, play music and even have a calendar. Just have to pick out the best deal and I've masterfully solved a nagging problem before breakfast.

As I'm pulling up outside Miss K's school (right on time I might add), I re-check the description on one clock for the third time. Ok, this is it, place bid and finalize! I am now the proud highest bidder at $0.01 for this item. As a back up, I have one Watched that's listed for only $10.99. Auction ends tomorrow and the clock would be here by December 3rd! What an awesome deal, right?

Well.... since I had so much free time while Baby A napped on me, I kept searching and found another clock, exactly the same, that would be here by Monday for only $9.83, free shipping! I bought it of course, who could resist? Worst case scenario, I have two clocks for cheap.

Wrong wrong wrong. Just realized, as I was cleaning up my "Watching" list on eBay, that the oh-so-good-of-a-deal clock has $10.99 shipping! Crap! If I do win (and you know I totally will just because this one time I don't want them to have a minimum bid limit), I will spend more on silly shipping than I did on the first alarm clock total!

Gah, I love these moments of self-incrimination over minor competently preventable things!

So I say unto thee, don't eBay and drive, you just might get yourself into trouble.