Greg Gelhar wrote:
> I believe there is a collector out there for most anything ever made.
I'll second that! About two years ago I opened a book and found a strange
bookmarker inside. It was
a single sheet of paper (approx 6"x4") and was nothing more than a temporary
bus timetable for a
three month period in 1932 in a remote corner of south-west England. I nearly
threw it out and then
remembered my son telling me he had seen someone selling a sachet of McDonalds
tomato ketchup on
eBay for a sum I now forget. Thinking again, it occurred to me that maybe
someone might want the
timetable, so I put it on ebay as well for a week. No bids at all until the
last five minutes of the
auction. Couldn't believe my eyes when the sale closed and I was about US$55
better off than I had
been ten minutes earlier. That little exercise made me an eBay convert -
there's always someone
who'll pay good money for (almost) anything and I'm happy to relieve them of
their funds :)
Jonmac
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