The saddest part of all this? His "item counter views" have gone from about 15 in the first five days to 150 in the last few hours as a direct result no doubt of SS interest on this topic. With two days left to go, sitting in the local Chinese earlier between starters and crispy duck, I had this horrible vision of this guy sitting there in a badly wallpapered room down the road going:
"Margeret, Margeret"
(long pause)
(Margeret) "Yes dear" (distant voice from upstairs)
"You know that Dobie Gray record we put up on e-bay?"
(Margeret) "Yes, the one in the corner next to that fishing tackle?"
"That's right dear, well there's two days to go and our e-bay site has been hit 100 times this afternoon alone"
(Margeret) "Ooh, how much?"
"I reckon old Jed was right and these northern soul guys have found it after all, and are all getting ready to "snipe" us with bis bids at the last minute"
(Margeret) "Have we made our fortune then?"
"I think we're about to".
How disappointed will they be when the "auction over - no bids" email arrives on Saturday?