Ludicrous things to do on ebay #172 - buy carrier bags

At the risk of sounding like the a total internet saddo and getting myself on the suckerlist of every badass scamgeek in the room, I'm going to make the following admission.

I bought two carrier bags on fleabay and it made my whole week.

 I'm so pleased I'm dribbling.

 So, Icarus, why have you decided to demean the excellent and growing reputation of Icarusquay to the point that, yeah it may in fact jump the shark?

 I'll tell you why.

I broke my achilles tendon last September. While that's another story and forced me to chill for a few weeks, one of the plans that it laid to rest was a trip to see the Terracotta Warriors (wiki) at the British Museum (wiki). I'd promised to take my Mum for whom The Smoke is a place of bestial evil which dare not be assailed without an escort. Too right. Unfortunately my partner would also rather put out her eyes than go to London - quote 'there are people there' so plan B was a non-starter. I promised to rearrange and sold the tickets on fleabay.

At face value.

They sold in 8 minutes, proving that I am a Muppet.

'Damn', I thought, 'I got the price wrong again.'

Anyhow. That should have told me something. So when I came to re-book tickets, they were sold out. So I went back to fleabay. Now my naive mental processes go like this - I sold at face value, lots of other people will be doing the same. Okay so I'm actually an idiot and I deserve to be on the suckerlist of every badass  scamgeek in the room. Not only were the prices totally nuts, the tickets were all for 3.15 am on a Sunday, with the attendant risk that either I, or my Mum, or both would be so knackered that we would fall asleep and in fact be mistaken for one of the exhibits and sent back to China in a crate.

So after much searching, I went back to the ticket office and guess what, there are still 10,000 tickets available, but you can only use them if you have a Sainsbury's carrier back from circa December 2007 (which is pre-history for my up-to-the minute pre-senile meta-singularity mind). So back I went to fleabay again and - wonder of wonders - people are selling Sainsburys carrier bags. On fleabay. And I bought two. For £10 each. In the peak-demand-pricing, fast-buck world of today, that saved me £60. No really.

And its recycling too.

They arrived yesterday and lo, I was filled with joy. Which goes to show - in this time of traders trying to loose a billion dollar profit because they weren't authorised to make it and possibly triggering a global recession - value is not always where you think it is.