posted on May 5, 2001 03:30:05 AM
1) This AM I'm shipping (from BOSTON) 2 packages to 2 different winners in the same small town in OREGON!
2) Last week, one of my winners was from my old home-town in PA. Not only that, but she lived two doors down. Not only that, but her kid was very good friends with my kid! I left that town 12 years ago!
"It's a small world..."
Oh, %#$@ -- now I've got that stupid song stuck in my head! This happened to me on the ride & I started screaming!
posted on May 5, 2001 03:38:58 AM
*rofl!* now it's my MY head! i've imagined hell to be stuck on that ride for eternity, and for a short time had it as the outgoing message on my answering machine. which used to be a great telemarketer preventative, but everyone else stopped calling!
#2 is neat! guess it's only a matter of time until we end up buying/selling from/to someone we know.
posted on May 5, 2001 05:28:39 AM
I had a coincidence like this also. I live in New Jersey and sold an item to someone in L.A. The address sounded really familiar and sure enough it turned out to be the same apartment building a good friend of mine lives in. I asked the buyer if he knew so & so and he said "You're kidding. We just came back from lunch together."
posted on May 5, 2001 05:56:21 AM
Sent a buyer my address for a check payment and she mails back "I have relatives in that same zip code". Now, I live in a fairly large area of South Florida, so what are the chances...right?
Turns out that she's the sister of a woman that lived on my street (that recently passed away very young and unexpectedly) and the daughter goes to the school I teach at. She hadn't spoken to the family in awhile and I guess this coincidence prompted her to call the family and reconnect. Made me feel good!
posted on May 5, 2001 07:40:08 AM
I had some items on Yahoo and their system is set up so that if you need to ask a seller a question you do it through their system and it is put on a page accessible to the public. Then you are notified you have been asked a question and provided with a link to go and answer it.
Imagine my surprise to find someone had left the following question/statement: "I notice you are from XXXXXX. You wouldn't by chance be XXXXXX XXXXXX would you? This looks like something she would sell."
I didn't know whether I had been complimented or insulted.
posted on May 5, 2001 03:11:40 PM
I was milling around eBay and noticed a rare dvd of Re-Animator that I just had to have. I bid on it, won it, and then realized that it was my own auction. I PayPal'd myself, sent the dvd out, received it, and have watched it three times today so far!
posted on May 5, 2001 03:36:50 PM
Must be the week for this. I'm also from Boston, and the winner of an antique sewing machine I had up for auction just happened to be from the small Western MA town where my family lives. Also just happened to be visiting them this weekend and was able to deliver the machine to her. She probably saved $35 in shipping.
posted on May 5, 2001 08:15:40 PM
I had two auctions end at the same time, (2 of many, that is) and got the money orders on the same day, when I noticed the last names were the same, and they were VERY unique, but the addresses were in different states, I asked one if they knew, XX XXXX from North Carolina, and she said I don't know her off hand, but that's where my husband's family lives. She emailed me the next day, Turns out that her husband knew her. What are the odds??????
(I just had to make sure I didn't mix up the auctions!)
posted on May 5, 2001 08:54:57 PM
Saw an auction for some stuff I wanted, and it was located in the same town I live in. The sellers user name sounded real familar, so I picked up the phone and called one of my (friendly) local brick and mortar competetors and asked him if it was his auction (didn't know he had started selling on ebay).
He told me yes, so I went and looked at the stuff, told him I might bid, went home and 2 hrs later snipped it. Jumped in the truck, drove straight to his shop, and paid him cash. 15 minutes, and it was a done deal.
posted on May 6, 2001 03:34:18 AM
I'm from a large FL city...
While visiting my oldest childhood friend in Battle Creek, MI he proudly shows me a ring that he bought on Ebay. When he told me the sellers name it turned out to be a very good friend of mine here in FL.
It truly is a small world.
posted on May 6, 2001 04:33:44 AM
My addition to the 'small world thread'.
My wife and I share duties on Ebay, she does the writing, I do the grunt work.
After sending out a standard EOA we recieve a response with buyers name, address and a
"do you know a Mr. XXXX?, I noticed you both share the same last names."
The town the buyer was in was where my parents had lived when my father passed away and Mr.XXXXX was my father, my wife wrote back explaining who we were and this is the letter we recieved back.
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Dear "XXXXX",
You tell your husband for me, that a better man never walked this earth in my eyes, except maybe, my own father. We lived right next door to his Mom and Dad on 20th Street for about 5 years. George rented half of my garage,and I was proud to rent it to him. He was the best neighbor I've ever had in my entire life. I was never in their house, but we talked over the fence almost
daily. The only time George was in my house was to pay me the rent on the garage. That's the way we both liked it. I didn't live his life nor he mine.
We were great neighbors.
It sometimes feels like just yesterday that my wife and I came home to find George standing in the garage. We didn't know if he was just leaving or just coming home, but it was obvious that he wanted to talk, as he was just standing there. I said; "What's up big guy." He said; "I just came from the
doctors." I said, "Bad news?" He said; "Yep, told me I got the big "C". I said;"Oh no George. How bad is it?" George looked at me and very seriously and said; "Well he told me not buy any green banana's." I didn't know what to say. This big brute of a man, (who was really such a big pussy cat really,)
looked at me and said; " But I'm going to beat it Ted. I'm not going to let it get the best of me." Of course we know that he didn't. I think of him often.
I told my wife as soon as we went in the house that day " We're moving." and of course we did. The neighbor on the other side of me was the exact opposite to George. I still remember the last day I saw him after we had moved and before he passed on. I was driving down 20th, and seeing him standing on the stoop of his house. I parked the car and got out and went up on the stoop and spoke to him. I said; "How's it going big guy?" George said; "This things getting the best of me Ted." Of course I was lost for words. What do you say to someone in that situation? Anyway we sat on the stoop and chatted for awhile and then I had to leave. It was only days later that I got the news that he had passed.
You tell your husband, that George is fondly in our thoughts. My Dad passed 26 years ago. I still think of him. I don't think you ever do forget. But then again, I don't want to.
Please believe me when I tell you, " No better men then my Dad and George ever walked this earth in my eyes."You take care, and keep your stick on the ice.
Thanks, again.
XXXXXXXXXXX
PS: Small world, Huh?
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