eBay intuition
I've been really thinking about building my own PVR (personal video recorder) a la TiVo, but amazingly you can't buy them! Well there is TiVo but I don't want to pay a monthly subscription for it, and I don't want to pay more for digital cable just so I can pay more to the cable company to be able to rent theirs. So I've convinced myself to spend probably at least $500 to build my own. :P
After much research I narrowed my selection of cases to only a few. One limits my choices of hardware in certain ways but will fit in my entertainment center well and looks really good! Another looks rather chunky, but will fit, and really has no future hardware restrictions. They both look really good actually but the better fitting one costs less.
So as luck would have it the company making the good looking case isn't making it anymore and the only place to get it now is on eBay. The company that sells them on there had three, one available at an auction and two as Buy it Now. While deciding whether or not to buy it two people snapped up the Buy it Now cases! Oh no. And the auction ended today at 2:36 AM.
I actually semi woke up today in the middle of the night and I was trying to rush to put a bid on the case. It felt weird. It was a dream, but if I let the excitement get to me I would've woken up. In any case, my dreams really affect me when they wake me up so I thought I should really consider getting the case.
I did put a bid on it with about 7 hours to go, but got outbid. After much back and forth on pros and cons I bid again with about 10 minutes to go. And amazingly some other guy outbid me at 2 minutes to go! I bid again when I saw this and I swear with 50 seconds to go he outbids me again! With 4 seconds to go, and really doubting if I could even type my bid fast enough to win, I get it. Ha, sucker... :P
I think it's kind of funny the actual outcome of the auction ended with the same excitement as my dream imparted on me.
This is the case I won:
and the other case I considered:
