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Surviving the greaser attack made us giddy, the way we always were when we walked out of a jam. We made it the rest of the way to the drugstore and got that month's "Famous Monsters." Here's what the cover looked like; this issue recently sold on eBay for $45. (What the world needs now - yet another robust collector's niche...
...away, and anyone who believed so deserved to lose all the money they had plowed into shares of hopeless dot-coms. And now that we are in an ever-so-slight downturn in the business cycle, those who say the Internet was all hype have obviously never used eBay or experienced one of the myriad forms of collaboration and communication that weren't possible even five years ago without the Internet...
...fault. For not reading the fine print. For not noticing the asterisks. When my wife bought a first edition of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street on eBay and the book arrived and was not a first edition, or even a second or third, the blame was hers--for not being suspicious. And when I used an online broker to buy shares of Micron Technology at 40 1/4 and received a confirmation five minutes later that I'd purchased the shares at 43, the blame was mine--for not knowing that "real-time quotes" aren't so real time...
...space around it. For now Nemitz welcomes NEAR, free of charge, but he's hoping that someday, the rock 196 million miles from Earth will prove a gold mine. He'd like to develop Eros for mining and tourism. Short of that, he says, he may auction it on eBay...
...space in the Presidio Heights condo, where she can work with the shades pulled down from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. without interruption. Except, she admits, those she inflicts on herself: "I have a terrible addiction that has destroyed a lot of my writing time. It's called eBay. I buy everything on eBay. I buy wineglasses. I don't want to worry about breaking crystal wineglasses, so I buy them off eBay for a dollar. When they break, who cares...