Tempted by eBay

Tempted 

How many times do I say it?  “I have really got to stay off eBay for a while.”

I am  a doll collector and  love to hunt around markets and antique shops but eBay brings me closer to items that I would never see normally.

Without eBay my doll collection would be much smaller. It was a fairly new thing when I started to use it in 1998, eBay Australia had not yet begun and I signed on to the US site. I thought it was fantastic. Suddenly I could buy dolls that I had always wanted as a child. I could buy dolls even if they were in the USA or England as well as dolls in other parts of Australia.

Of course it can be expensive; vintage items are not always cheap. You have to look for value for money as shipping costs and exchange rates have become major issues over the years.

So every now and again I declare a ban on eBay purchases for a while but it never lasts long. I like to use eBay to identify dolls  so inevitably I log in anyway “Just to look”. Inevitably there will be a Barbie outfit that I’ve wanted for ages, a Pedigree doll at a great price or some other doll related item that I can’t live without and I’ve succumbed to temptation again.

Author: Taswegian1957

Born in England in 1957 my family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company. I currently co-write two Wordpress blogswith my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and a "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. View all posts by Taswegian1957