Not exactly a great story, but i did manage to win a copy of
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka on dvd, off ebay, for about £6-7. The dvd has become a bit rare to get and i think, the last time i checked, it was about £15+ on amazon. What made this sort of great was the fact that, as the auction was ending, nobody else bid on it. I think the last person who bid on it, took it up to £5 but then must've forgotten about it something. So it was just me bidding on it and nobody else, which was fantastic. That's the second item i've managed to win off ebay and was a bargain. I just can't bloody win any auctions.
Ah, actually the greatest story i have is an item i bought off ebay last year. Brace yourself, this is a biggish story...
It was a game called
Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase. Now this game's special to me and my brother because it was the first ever PC CD-ROM game we had, and played, when we had our first computer off our cousins. Actually i think there were some other games but this was the only one we went on. We found it very addictive.
Unfortunately around my final year at school the disc somehow got cracked and was unplayable. I ended up doing a copy of it and slung the actual disc. A few years later i got a Windows ME computer and tried to install the game using my copied version. For some strange reason it wouldn't even install. Found out only last year that the game just won't work on a ME machine but it does on XP.
I mean, ME is quite similar to 98 so surely it would've worked? But, anway... thinking that the game was as good as knackered, i slung my copied version away along with the box and manual. And that was that. We never played it again for a good few years.
Then a year or two ago, me and my brother remembered it. I soon started searching around on the net for a place to buy it, but... nothing. Quite disappointing. Ended up finding a website, whilst at college, that, er... *ahem* had it available for download. Downloaded it onto one of the college's computers but it was too big to copy onto a floppy disc to take home. We didn't have the internet at home and I didn't have a pen drive at the time either. When we did have the internet it wouldn't even download because something was preventing it. Turned out to only be the firewall. So then me and my brother were able to play it. But i missed having the actual CD and box. I thought it'd be cool to find a copy somewhere on ebay and add it to my collection. Kept searching on amazon, play and ebay for it but it wasn't available anywhere. It was like it had vanished off the face of the planet.
Then, one morning when i woke up, something told me to check ebay for it again. I did, and there it was for as little as £5 (£7 with postage). The only copy i've ever seen on ebay and ever likely to see. Someone had made an offer for less (what the hell that person thought was wrong with the original price i've no idea) but it was rejected. So i swiped it up. The original CD, box, manual and registration card. It's like it had never left the house. Definitely meant to be. And i still can't believe i've got the actual copy in my collection. It's now one of my prized possessions.
