404039 is the number

I’m pissed off! Oh, yes. I am.

You know, here in Croatia we got something like an ebay, but modest and cheap. Really cheap.

Since we moved to a new apartment, we concluded that our new bookshelves are not enough for all of our books. So, we decided to give the books away to our friends and family. A week ago, I decided to sell a few books on our Croatian „ebay“.

Starting prices were low, and guess what – they stayed low. For example: „Ivo Friscic - monograph of the painter’s work“ was sold for only $2,40 (full color book, painter’s reproductions, hard covers, 7“x8“). It looks like my compatriots do not care for books or art…

I tried to sell fiction. And again missed. Didn’t sell the book on humor fiction. And that was a new one! My husband bought it for me few months ago.

The most crazy thing happened with one of the buyers who thought that I’m kind of a clairvoyant. One of the buyers told me that she agrees to meet me on Monday afternoon. I replayed that it’s OK with me, and if she had some problem she can call me on my mobile. I left the number in my mail. I never met her before. Never spoke to her before. Just agreed on meeting today.

So, today, I was waiting on the street with books in my arms. Of course – she didn’t show up. But, fortunately I sold that book to another bidder, one that I met an hour later.

This supposed to be the end of the story. For me. But, no. She was angry. She thought that I could predict that she has a habit of confirming the meeting once again – the day before. She has a habit. Like she is my friend, and I know that she has this habit! Or, I’m a kind of a clairvoyant and I must know that she has a habit! The best of all, she was angry on me!

Another interesting thing is the two of five buyers that I arranged meeting today didn’t show up: the first one and the last one. The last buyer didn’t meet me and I had two books which I didn’t want to bring home again. The funniest thing is that my husband talked me into selling the books over to the second-hand bookshop named “Jesenski i Turk” were we got 10x the price we won on auction site. Immediately.

All in all, that adventure is one thing I’ll never repeat again! No way! I felt so stupid standing there waiting for the person I never met… and on the top of it she sends me an email stating that I should have maybe known that she will not show up … I really, really don’t need that. I’d rather give those books away for free!