Frostbite

Ebay is never an easy road to hoe (Or as some message board regulars would have punned..."Ho").

This week I "made" about $500. I owe the town $150 for my water bill, and I am just about out of fuel oil, which right now is about a $200 minimum. It was about 30 degrees this morning, meaning I had better get some anti freeze into the Honda, stat. I don't know how much that will run me, but anything mechanical isn't cheap. I won't do it at home because I have 4 cats.

So...even though I've got $500 sitting here...I cannot touch it. Some buyer might have a problem with something next week and complain, and if the money is already spent, then I cannot refund the whiner(s).

I could and probably would throw up the "case smokescreen" in which I demand the item back so that paypal won't refund them for a week while it is enroute and I burn up the insurance lines and scramble to recoup, but that usually takes two weeks. My water would be shut off and my oil tank empty by then.

So I am splitting hairs again this week...in order to "save" $200, I am going to go to the gas pump and buy a smaller amount of diesel and just pay the frigging water bill, and pray that the two large delicate things that just got sent to California (of course...you think anything small, light, and unbreakable ever gets bid on by a west coast person?) get there in one piece and that the buyers aren't nitpicky assholes. The fucking bedspread is only going across the state, and a smaller less-expensive doll is going down the coast to NC...*headdesk*