posted on November 2, 2000 04:12:57 PM
One of my auctions was recently won by someone who worked with my husband years ago! We had no idea it was him. What a surprise it was! Have any of you had that happen - been reunited with an old friend through eBay?
posted on November 2, 2000 04:15:44 PM
Wow, small world! I've never had that happen - but I've had a lady tell me she worked at the hospital right around the corner from me. I've also had a couple people tell me they are from my town and now live in another state. But so far I haven't sold to anyone I know personally.
posted on November 2, 2000 05:23:20 PM
I've had many interesting ones. Met several of the people I've sold to, all fun, great people. Sold to several people I know.
One of the more interesting was to sell to someone who lived in a fairly obscure town where my grandmother used to live, 30+ years ago. Turned out we knew several of the same people & it was fun catching up on everyone.
Sold to several people who ended up knowing the same people I did & we ended up becoming fast friends, off ebay.
Guess I've been fortunate in my sales, met some awfully wonderful people who've not only become repeat customers, but who have become good "net" friends.
posted on November 2, 2000 05:30:10 PM
Last December I started a conversation with someone on one of ebay's chat boards and discovered that he was the brother of a long-lost friend of my mother's. It turned out that his sister had been searching for my mom for 40 years and we were able to "reunite" them through email. Now my mom and her friend regularly call each other, instant message, etc.
You wouldn't believe how excited and elated I was to help the two of them get back into touch after such a long separation!
posted on November 2, 2000 09:13:59 PM
Well, "friend would be a "relative" term...lol
Had a buyer who went to High School with Surf's ex-hubby...we got some good stuff on him from that transaction...LOL
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on November 3, 2000 04:23:19 AM
A couple of years ago I sold an item to a lady who lived in the same city as my parents. This is a fairly large city, a suburb of Chicago, so I doubted she knew my family but I asked just for the heck of it. When her payment arrived, inside was a note from my sister - she was their babysitter LOL!!!!
posted on November 3, 2000 05:11:43 AM
Muriel -- I was visiting my small hometown in Michigan last summer. While there my oldest childhood friend proudly showed off the diamond ring that he had bought for his fiancee through Ebay. He then told me that the seller was from the city that I live in here in Florida. Knowing that the city is quite large he didn't think I would possibly know this seller....turns out he is one of my best friends. Very small world indeed!
posted on November 3, 2000 11:08:42 AM
This isn't a reunited story, but still a strange coincidence. I decided to auction an old 6 Flags Over Texas employee yearbook.
I took a photo of the outside and then just opened it up, picked a page at random, and took a photo of that page. Within a day I got an email from a lady who had worked at 6 Flags as a teen, and she was in the photo I had taken a picture of. The caption to photo wasn't visible in my photo. But she said ,'that's me third from left Susie Smith," or whatever.
It was a weird coincidence. She didn't bid on the book, she already had it.
posted on November 3, 2000 05:10:39 PM
I sold something and emailed back and forth for a week. When the address exchange time came around it was a judge in the very small town I live in and we all know each other.
