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Funny shipping, great conquest!

Posted by: joethezombie on 2017-09-29 18:06:44 I saw a neat little item on eBay, but didn't want to pay a lot for it.  So I made a really low-ball offer to the seller, expecting him or her to come back with a counter offer.  To my surprise, they accepted!  This got me thinking... for what I offered, the seller surely couldn't have shipped the item all the way to Idaho.  I even started to feel kind of bad about it, knowing that this person probably went to the post office and paid everything I had given them just to ship it. But then, the package arrived.  I was relieved a bit, but hilarity ensued: The package was completely enveloped in old prepaid postage envelopes.  Hundreds of them.  Some as small as 1½¢ I can only imagine the look on the post office attendant when it was dropped off at the counter.   :lol: Here's one of the 1½¢ guys, and a super cool holographic space station with docking shuttle: The prize inside, a like new in box Radius SE Accelerator and Two Page Display:

Posted by: Rick Dangerous on 2017-10-05 06:40:01 Cool!  Someone had a lot of time on their hands.....LOL

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