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what was the first thing you bought on ebay? Did you make any friends?

>> No.6071875

Pokemon red with an ags 101 gameboy SP. And friends? No, is that a thing on Ebay?

>> No.6071885

not /vr/ but I bought 2 or 3 vintage Depeche Mode patches from a lad in the UK. I guess he had another one in stock I didnt see so he just included it in for free, and he left a handwritten letter thanking me for buying.

>> No.6071887

Mew pokemon card. First and only time I ever used a money order for an eBay purchase. Nobody I knew at the time had credit or debit cards. Had to have my grandma buy it for me since I was like 10.

>> No.6071889

>>6071867
A copy of Slayers Wonderful for PS1 in 1999. Also a crappy $40 broadsword.

>> No.6071892

>>6071889
oh as for friends, I dunno about friends but certainly favorite sellers, like retrosaikou and discheaven.

>> No.6071896

I was a kid in the mid 2000s, and I really wanted a copy of Sonic 3. Gamestop didn't have it because it was too old, and retro game stores weren't really a thing yet (none that I knew of anyway.)
Around that time, one of my older cousins came over to visit and I happened to mention my plight to him.
>"You know, you could probably still find it on ebay"
>Yeah, maybe lol. (what the fuck is an ebay)
And a few weeks later a sealed copy of Sonic 3 arrives in the mail. I didn't expect him to actually buy it. That was the nicest random thing anyone has ever done for me.

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>>6071867
>what was the first thing you bought on ebay?
As far as video games, I can't remember, but way back in the early 2000s I think I bought a couple of Pokemon cards or something. Pic related was definitely one of them.

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game OSTs and Gameboy games

>> No.6071935

>>6071867
>First thing
The Wing of Madoola for Famicom
>New friends
Lolwut?

>> No.6071952

>>6071896
Aww that's cute af anon, good memory

>> No.6072020

>>6071867
>what was the first thing you bought on ebay?
What does this have to do with the cost of bootlegs in China? The first thing I bought was Prague powder.
>Did you make any friends?
Of course. Who doesn't want to be friends with someone whos superpower is creating bacon.

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>>6071867
My eBay account is actually retro and almost 20 years old now (Dec 22 1999)

only accumulated 425 feedback since then but there was only a short period of time I actually sold things with the account (back in 2005 and 6) I originally opened the account to buy animu merchandise, The first thing I remember I got was a rattling plush of a Princess Mononoke Kodama (pic related)

>> No.6072167

>>6071867
When I was 13, I found eBay and immediately searched for pic related. Annoyed my dad until he let me use his credit card to buy one for 70 odd bucks. Thought it was the best thing ever since we didn't get these in Australia. Got Red Alarm, Tetris, and some baseball game for it. Now it sits in a box somewhere because only one eyepiece displays anything. Magical experience.

>> No.6072168

D&D Materials in the late 90s

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>>6072167
Stupidly forgot to attach image.

>> No.6072190

>tfw just hit 500 feedback

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I think one the first things I bought on ebay with my own account was in 1999 or 2000. It was this Sonic Christmas plush. If that wasn't the first thing, it would have been Mortal Kombat 2 for SNES. I'm not even sure how I made an account, I wasn't even 18 or older to create an account.

>> No.6072219

a copy of WWF Steel Cage Challenge on NES in 2003. i think it was $6 shipped.

>> No.6072258

Fairly sure it was Tech Romancer for Dreamcast, for whatever reason none of the stores around me had the game.
My ebay account was created in May 2000, so that lines up.

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Not a video game of any kind but, a DVD of Iria: Zeiram the animation. Which I still own. Had to pay with a goddamn money order.

>> No.6072312

>>6071867
Not VR but I had my dad buy me an enterprise 1701 movie model AMT. from
eBay around 2001.
For something that is VR, the first thing I ever got from amazon in 1998 was the strategy guide to titanic adventure out of time

>> No.6072369

>>6071867
The first game (and item) I ever bought on ebay, was a Contra III like 15 years ago.

>> No.6072379

>>6072369
I remember when I bought contra III. Back in 1993. zoom zoom.

>> No.6072380

>>6071867
Pokemon cards

>> No.6072420

>>6071867
CIB final fantasy for NES in 2007, paid with postal money order

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Got a copy of this in 1999 or so.

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Here's the first 19 purchases I made on eBay (Banjos were in a set together) after finding out how cheap Japanese N64 games were compared to the North American versions.

>> No.6073272

>>6072379
lol

>> No.6073290

>>6071867
Mega Man 3 and no friends.

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>>6071867
Dark aluminum powder for making bombs.
Also, some electrodes for use in my first chlorate cell.

>> No.6073325

I got a few free games from ebay. see, when someone lists a game as Like New and it arrives as Good, I refund that shit. and several times the package winds up right back at my doorstep after having returned it with the label provided by ebay.

>> No.6073502

I have never purchased a single thing on ebay.

>> No.6073528

>>6071867
OQO Model 1+ and a black long fishtail-parka, this decade

>> No.6073687 [DELETED] 

>>6073502
Very based fuck people who dishonestly label the condition of the item

>> No.6073702

Boxed Atart 5200 in 1998

My god I hated money orders, felt like a spic or nigger getting those. White trash checks

>> No.6073924

>>6071867
bought 1million gold for $5 (ultima online)

>> No.6074281

>>6072472
>here's how i wasted my allowance

>> No.6074560

I miss how much soul web 1.0 had.

>> No.6074581

>>6071867
Bought Blinx 2 and it never arrived
My parents wouldnt use ebay ever again because of it

>> No.6074797

>>6074560
I miss how much "soul" people who don't even acknowledge web 2.0 is was ever a thing.

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>>6071896
You didn't know what eBay was in the mid-2000's?

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>>6071867
my parents have been selling stuff since 2003 but it was 2017 before I bought something myself. I saw this sweater in the local macys store when i was like 12 and I never forgot about it.

>> No.6075302

Grandia 3 for Dreamcast

>> No.6075318

>>6071867
Duke Nukem 64 in 2005

>>6073298
my buddy bought a bunch of aluminum powder and we made m80s it was so much fun setting them off on my farm and just goofing around I will always cherish that memory. I miss you so much jordan

>> No.6075632

>>6071867
Still haven't bought anything.

Don't think it works in my country.