This blog post has it's origin in a couple of things.
First of all I realised a little ago that I had missed something out of my "catch up" (which is wont to happen when you don't do your blogging in real time) that I had not talked about the time I almost bought a place off of eBay and secondly, I still find myself irresistibly drawn to looking at the listings on there and thinking "oooh I





