Ebay

I’ve been having a bit of an Ebay month. I’ve not really engaged with Ebay very much before – I remember signing up a few years back and buying some music books and that’s been about it. But a few weeks back I was talking with the Head of Marketing and PR for Adili and she confessed that she was a bit of an Ebay addict, particularly for designer shoes.

How could I not have realised its potential for the ethical dresser. So I re-registered and far too quickly got the Ebay bug. The rush of the last minute flurry of activity. The joy of having a parcel plop through the door.

I’ve learned a few lessons as well. There’s an awful lot of sellers out there selling new cheap tat. So I had to work out how to filter so I only saw ‘used condition’ stuff. I’ve ended up with a couple of pieces that are cheaper and nastier than I had expected but generally it’s been fab (though I will have to eat less and exercise more to get into the jeans.)

In a month I’ve spent less than £50 and bought twelve items. Not bad eh.

• flower print tea dress – (better as a long top than a dress, but fun)
• brown high heeled shoes – (fab, but can’t wear for the moment due to sprained ankle)
• Churches vintage brown shoes – (geeky and glorious, makes me feel I’m a Bletchley Park code breaker)
  
• black jeans (per una)
• “gold crushed effect top” [sic] – (not great, the description should have warned me)
• brown flower patterned top
• Jigsaw skirt – (short, straight, flowery cotton skirt – simple and good for summer)
• Toast denim trousers
• white Jigsaw jersey top – (simple, unstained (hurrah) and great for layering)
• white ruffle shirt – (seller said Whistles but labels had been removed, still it’s very nice)
• yellow flowery short tunic top
• white gyspy top

I’d better stop for now I think. In the future I’ll try and be more restrained and buy quality rather than quantity. But it’s been fun.

Now, I supposed I’d better go and clear twelve things out of my wardrobe to make room.