A Grand Fail!

It feels ill timed and a stupid idea for me to write about me failing on the eve of an important interview but I’ve been meaning to post this for the past few days and haven’t quite got round to it…. until now, on the eve of an important interview. This time last year I set myself the target of generating £1,000 through various means, namely the sales of goods on ebay. I was inspired to do this for a few reasons, for which I shall now explain: This time of year is very expensive for me, as a car owner, because I have my insurance to renew, my road tax to also renew and this year due to the Alfa being two years old, a full service to fork out for! So immediately I’ve spent over £800 and that’s on top of my other monthly bills and rent.

This time last year I won an iPod from work, which I duly sold and thought to myself ‘Great, free money!!’ I then promptly got a double refund for some mouldy Loyd Grossman Naan bread (which I’ve never purchased since, I should sue for damages really) and that gave me the idea to see just how much money I could gain by being clever. Granted, there’s not much clever business involved with putting something up on ebay or unknowingly buying some mouldy bread, but I had a stock of Star Wars toys that I wanted shifting and now seemed the perfect time to shift it. And so my £1,000 target was born, because I knew a thousand pounds would cover the vast(ish) expense I’d face the following year.

A year has passed…… the total has been counted….. and verified……. the total is………….£255.12.

Okay, I fully accept that this hasn’t gone according to plan. I lost some motivation after some big items that I predicted would do well on ebay actually didn’t sell at all. I then couldn’t even shift a new Sony DVD player (another prize) for next to nothing and then work decided to get ridiculously busy. But while I haven’t been able to generate £1,000, with the amount of over-time I’ve done this past year, I have certainly accumulated well over £1,000 extra, so we shall now end this silly game!

I do intend to sell more stuff on ebay though, so when I do actually reach £1,000 I will let you know. I also have yet to fork out for that Wacom pen. Sometimes even I suck!