Walter Hutchens’ Blog

Sunday Maggie and I offered another item for sale on eBay. Our second auction is low-tech: we are trying to sell a pair of boots I bought her in Shanghai that are too big for her tiny feet (Maggie objects to the word "tiny," but she needs a US size 3.5, so tiny seems fair to me). Anyway, I paid $100 for the boots, which turned out to be a US size 6. We’ve set the "Buy it Now" price at $90 and the reserve at $49.

Setting up this second auction went much quicker than the first. The only problem was that we don’t have Internet access at home, so I was taking advantage of a neighbor’s unsecured WI-FI. The connection faded in and out (only my Toshiba even sees it; the NEC and U don’t even know it’s there). That made it frustrating to post five photos of the boots! But we finally got it done.

Tonight we went to Rockville. I took my Sony Vaio back to Best Buy for repairs (more on that in another entry). We had dinner at Chili’s, then went to Barnes & Noble. I got some computer magazines and a couple of books about eBay.