The day we bought a couch on Ebay...

It was more or less by accident that we ended up with the couch. We were actually bidding on another couch because the fabric of that one looked nicer. The two auctions ended just four minutes apart from each other and because we wanted to see how far the price is going up, we openend the page of a similar one that started at about the same price than ours and was offered by the same seller but was already 100 Euros ahead of ours.

The couch looked also quite nice and when we found out that we could choose the fabric ourselves we decided to take our chances and just bid to our limit. As always the last seconds on Ebay cost you some months of your life and are a bit blurred with excitement. Then without really knowing what happened Ebay congratulated us on our new couch.

Quite freaked out by this funny attempt to take chances and actually getting it, we checked on the other couch that was still 100 Euros away from what we just paid for "our new couch". By that time we got quite anxious that we just bought a couch for far more money than we would have to pay for this one... So the last minute of this auction were actually more stressful than the one where we actually took part in the bidding.

10 seconds before the end, the price still did not move much causing quite some heart racing. And then... pff, we were fine.. the couch was sold for about the same price than ours. What's the difference between them? It's easier to vacuum under the couch we bought. And that is that...

Quality sucks but it gives you an idea...