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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Lynn Hudoba: Zou Bisou Bi-Zhu Zhu

How I learned the hard way to put a protective password on all of my electronic devices.

Chiot, puppy, murphy, Zhu Zhu, giochi preziosi, chien, dog. That’s what the eBay invoice said that appeared in my inbox from out of nowhere.  I engage in quite of bit commerce on eBay, but almost exclusively as a seller of wares. I’m not used to getting invoiced. Must be a mistake, I thought. Until I opened the email, and then I knew exactly what had happened. My daughter had made a purchase on eBay. She’d gone and helped herself to a fluffy-eared little minx of a Zhu Zhu puppy named Murphy. From France. For 30 Euro. That’s like $10,000 right?  As I’ve written about previously, I am the anti-hoarder. I have the constant urge to purge and, as such, always have something posted on both eBay and Craigslist at any given time. So naturally I am…

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Naperville Man Attempts to Sell Obama's Chrysler on eBay for $1M

A Naperville man who purchased Barack Obama's Chrysler 300C was seeking a starting bid of $1 million.

Bidding on a car that President Barack Obama once owned was set to end at 10 p.m. Wednesday, but it's not clear the bidding ever started. A Naperville man was seeking an opening bid of $1 million for a Chrysler 300C that was once owned by President Barack Obama. The car's owner was located in Naperville, according to a story in Tecca.com. And, the New York Times reported that the vehicle's owner had hired eBay veteran Lisa Czibor to sell the car on the site.  The sale was scheduled to run until 8 p.m. Pacific time, or 10 p.m. central time. At closing time, there were no bids received, according to the eBay listing.

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