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[commotiocordis]

Bidding on things I need for school on Ebay. There's this clicker-type response pad thing that's basically teaching for lazy people (both my parents lololol'd when I showed them the presentation for teachers on how to use it in your classroom, followed by a very serious "So, pretty obvious that they are working on training apes to replace us.") because you don't even have to call on the students or grade tests or pay attention at all to who's participating in class, etc. It's understandable, perhaps, for a very large lecture course, but they you'd think that the school could give you a lender as chances are you're never going to need it again.

Whatever.

Anyway, I bid on one on Ebay this afternoon. A few hours later, I get an email telling me I've won it. Whut? It had something like 5 days left! I check, and the sale price was $0.01. It's all legit Ebay emails, and the Ebay system thinks I've won this thing in legitimate rounds of bidding, but I'm naturally very skeptical. The seller had to have stopped the sale early. Why would they do that with only one bid at one cent? I checked to see if it was all in the shipping markup, but s/h is only about $4. Which is def. on the high side for the size of this thing, but not bad.

I IZ CONFUZED. Ebay's got me logged in as the winner and therefore supposed to be all with the handing over of dinero, but I don't really want to pay this guy until I find out what his game is. Going to email the seller and ask what's up. Because the cheapness is excellent, but it feels like a scam.

Comments

[saturn-hime.livejournal.com]

I forgot all about those...I've still got mine, if you haven't REALLY won yours. All you have to do is buy a stupid little subscription thingy, and I'm not sure how that even works.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

The guy says I've got it, so I went ahead and gave him the $3.87 or whatever, figuring that's not too much to lose. I think, judging by the picture, that it might be an older model, though, so if that makes it not work, I might have to take you up on that.

Is it just me, or is that dumb PED class pretty darn expensive for a gen ed? I mean, normal course fee + $10 supplemental + not cheap book + clicker thing + subscription (about how much is that?). I should see if I can get scholarship to cover the subscription, because that sounds like "required course fees" to me, LOL.

What's your schedule like hour-to-hour, did you ever say?

[saturn-hime.livejournal.com]

Honestly, most of the gen eds are way too expensive anyway. But PED, i think, is more expensive because you don't really do anything in the class. It's totally required course fees..it's like a book.

Schedule-wise, MWF, I have class from 8-11 and TR, I have class 9-11ish. It's nice. I'll probably be working when I'm not in class, which should be fun. What's your schedule like?