A few of you must have noticed ‘My Sponsors!’ in the column on the left because you’ve clicked the ads there enough times to earn me US$0.01 …… that’s 1 whole US cent. Thank you ;-) Due to this phenomenal interest I’ve cut the ads back to just two. Both of which I use and can honestly recommend.

It’s only around 10 days now before we go off to Majorca for a week, details of the trip are in the entry for 23 May and I’m already getting in the mood. So much so that I bought a new holiday shirt on eBay today!

Most of my purchases on eBay are done using snip. This means that I make my first, and only, bid within a few seconds of the auction ending. It’s a bit like eBay’s own system where you bid your maximum and eBay automatically bids for you each time someone else outbids you. The problem with that is that you have declared yourself a bidder days/hours before the auction ends and this helps push the price up. With snip you set it up and go to work/bed/the pub or whatever and let things take care of themselves. Your bid is only placed a user definable number of seconds before the auction close, my choice is 4 seconds. So, suddenly from out of the blue a new bidder bids and nobody has time to react and bid higher. You win!